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Slowly flapping its orange and black wings, a monarch butterfly sips liquid from a patch of mud. Its proboscis - the mouthpart that sucks up liquids - grazes the damp soil. For years, biologists knew that butterflies dre...

Based on a protein from E. coli, scientists have developed a fluorescent protein sensor able to provide real-time information on dynamic changes in oxygen levels with very high sensitivity. As the oxygen level is a major...

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) For some time now, in the data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, several anomalies have been seen in the decays of...

Electrons whizzing around each other and humans crammed together at a political rally don't seem to have much in common, but researchers at Cornell are connecting the dots.

Gene editing has improved muscle function in dogs that have the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy in people, and could lead to new treatments

The overall mortality in patients suffering non-neonatal tetanus is high. Efforts to reduce mortality in one sub-Saharan African intensive care unit (ICU) by implementing a standard tetanus protocol did little to change ...

Insights into how harmful white blood cells form during tuberculosis infection point to novel targets for pharmacological interventions.

A new assay can concurrently trace, in thousands of different cells, the marks that shape what each cell's genome will do -- the epigenome -- and the copies of the instructions themselves -- the transcriptome. The epigen...

A new tool uses a smartphone camera, a small 3D-printed box and a simple chemical test to show whether a dead mosquito belongs to the Aedes aegypti species, which carries Zika and other devastating viruses that afflict a...

Researchers recently examined a sample of 85 healthy college students to see how a number of personality traits can protect an individual's brain against symptoms of emotional distress, namely depression and anxiety.

Scientists have determined the DNA code of the opium poppy genome, uncovering key steps in how the plant evolved to produce the pharmaceutical compounds used to make vital medicines. The discovery may pave the way for sc...

Scientists detail how technology and a growing understanding of the evolution of venoms are pointing the way toward entirely new classes of drugs capable of treating diabetes, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, and other...

Scientists have discovered that some childhood bone cancers start growing years before they are diagnosed. Researchers discovered large-scale genetic rearrangements in Ewing Sarcomas and other children's cancers, and sho...

Neisseria gonorrhoea continues to show high levels of resistance to azithromycin across the European Union and European Economic Area, according to the 2016 results of the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance P...

The breakneck pace of biomedical discovery is outstripping clinicians' ability to incorporate this new knowledge into practice. Scientists have now written about a possible way to approach this problem, one that will acc...

Men are missing from fertility debates and crucial support services because they are often not included in studies and, when they are, it is usually only married, heterosexual men who are asked for data.

Fifty-seven percent of American adults have been surprised by a medical bill that they thought would have been covered by insurance, according to a new study. Respondents indicated that 20 percent of their surprise bills...

Newborns require special diagnosis and treatment considerations for an infectious diarrhea known as Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection, according to a new evidence-based white paper.

Providing 'targeted' social support to other people in need activates regions of the brain involved in parental care -- which may help researchers understand the positive health effects of social ties, reports a new stud...

Universities that aim to raise money for research by selling access to their biobanks to private companies should tell patients, a new survey shows. In fact, saying what the money will be used for will likely encourage p...

A new study reports personality traits can help protect an individual's brain against symptoms of emotional distress, such as anxiety and depression.

Researchers report dendritic learning leads to a universal phenomenon that all brains are composed of the same wide spectrum of links.