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Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Is there room for black bears in human-dominated New Jersey? According to Utah...

Credit: Wits University Scientists from the Wits School of Public Health, the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Kwa-Zulu Natal and the University of Limpopo...

When we exercise, our body's oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A new study analyses the effect...

Credit: Autism Speaks Autism Speaks today released its Strategic Plan for Science 2018-2020, with emphasis on the organization's mission to enhance lives today and accelerate...

Credit: UBC Public Affairs / Claire Tugault-Lafleur Canadian children don't eat enough vegetables, fruit and dairy products during school hours, causing them to fall short...

Credit: Centre for Molecular Biology It has been proposed that somatic gene variations (SNV) present in few brain cells could facilitate the development of neurodegenerative...

Credit: Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in mind. To start, DNA is...

Credit: N. Zhao Birds benefit from flocking together — even when they're not of a feather. According to a new study in The Auk: Ornithological...

Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health plans to expand its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, a genomics resource used by...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017–For many people living with HIV, the stigma associated with their illness is itself a health...

Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy two main habitats during their...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2015)–The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) yesterday announced that Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) Assistant Professor Hui Shen, Ph.D., has...

Credit: By G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. – A team of Michigan State University scientists has genetically sequenced two species of poisonous mushrooms, discovering that...

EUGENE, Ore. — May 5, 2016 — A cell-to-cell signaling network that serves as a developmental timer could provide a framework for better understanding the...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Efforts to treat myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, are in their infancy. In a new study,...