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One of the most interesting facts about mole rats – that, as with ants and termites, individuals specialise in particular tasks throughout their lives –...

Credit: Laura Ahtiainen Despite extensive research on the molecular regulation of early tooth development, little is known about the cellular mechanisms driving morphogenesis prior to...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine In a study published today in PLoS ONE, a team of researchers reports solving a medical mystery in a day's...

IMAGE: This is a picture of the lifecycle of Ixodes scapularis tick. Credit: Credit: CDC With tenacity befitting their subject, an international team of nearly...

Credit: CDC/Jessica A. Allen/Alliza Eckerd. The gut of a child infected with rotavirus is like a battle ground. On one side, the virus invades the...

Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from researchers at the University of...

Credit: Credit: Duo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them can benefit human health. Sickle...

Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and...

ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University's vaccine center has been tapped by the National Institutes of Health to conduct a human clinical trial of a...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Lymphatic vessels form a circulatory system that plays an important role in controlling the amount of fluid in tissues, and...

Credit: MPI f. Developmental Biology/ M. Exposito-Alonso In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into neurons in the medial amygdala...

IMAGE: This is from the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Credit: Cornell Food and Brand Lab Try this on...

Credit: Kara Gross Margolis, M.D., and Michael Gershon, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 25, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain "reads" or decodes a sentence in...