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Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Meeting a young patient with Zellweger syndrome, a rare, life-threatening genetic disease, started a scientific investigation that culminated with an...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 22, 2017 - The leading cause of acute gastroenteritis linked to eating raw seafood disarms a key host defense...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Could it be that sex actually does not sell? An analysis of nearly 80 advertising studies...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - For the first time, scientists have visualized the fine details of bacterial microcompartment shells - the organisms'...

Credit: (Credit: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology) The evolution of the amniotic egg -- complete with membrane and shell -- was key to vertebrates leaving...

Studies of human populations suggest that our health and longevity could be affected by the diets and experiences of our grandparents. For example, studies of...

MISSOULA - The elusive American pine marten, a little-studied member of the weasel family, might be more diverse than originally thought, according to new research...

Boulder, CO, USA: Registration is open for The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held 22-25 October 2017 at the Washington...

Credit: Matthew Mann/ University of Rochester Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common theme. Organisms need to acquire...

It's a tiny marine invertebrate, no more than 3 millimeters in size. But closely related to humans, Botryllus schlosseri might hold the key to new...

The music from the movie "Jaws" is a sound that many people have learned to associate with a fear of sharks. Just hearing the music...

Credit: JR Hernandez, UTEP Communications A pair of scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing the first...

Credit: Jennifer Bagwell, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke researchers have discovered a unique repair mechanism in the developing backbone of zebrafish that could give...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that function much like natural human...

Credit: Dr Marta I. Oliveira, INL, Portugal Tiny nanoparticles offer significant potential in detecting and treating disease - new review Exosomes - tiny biological nanoparticles...