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(Van Andel Research Institute) The findings, published today in Cell, reveal for the first time components of a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) named rhodopsin bound...

Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Every spring and fall, billions of birds migrate across the United States, largely unseen under the cover of darkness. Now...

There's a 50-hectare forested plot in Panama where researchers with the Smithsonian have gathered highly detailed information about the species, distribution, and size of trees...

Hepatitis E gets little press compared to its better-known cousins A, B and C, but Stellenbosch University virologists say we should wake up to how...

Plants are among many eukaryotes that can "turn off" one or more of their genes by using a process called RNA interference to block protein...

Why do some of us live longer than others? While the environment in which we live, including our socio-economic status or the food we eat,...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 27, 2017 -- Researchers compared the effects of three bone growth factors to bone morphogenetic...

Credit: Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa It is a well-known fact that environmental factors such as soil texture and drainage determine to a very large degree the...

Credit: Credit: NIH/NIAID A new study suggests that T cells, which help the body's immune system recognize friend from foe, may play an important role...

Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville KNOXVILLE--Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel, assistant professor of child and...

A faculty member at the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation has received a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Zebrafish deficient in vitamin E produce offspring beset by behavioral impairment and metabolic problems, new research at Oregon State University shows. The...

EUGENE, Ore. -- July 27, 2017 -- Computer simulations of electrical charges sent to retinal implants based on fractal geometry have University of Oregon researchers...

Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced the release of Prion...