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A core challenge in biology is understanding how processes in the body, such as cellular development and regeneration, unfold ...

Municipalities and federal agencies monitor U.S. waters for microcystins, a toxin produced by harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, but a University of Michigan study shows that the blooms produce a ...

Fermentation is one of the oldest methods of preserving food. Long before refrigerators existed, people relied on ...

A team of Georgia State University researchers is calling for digital platforms to implement stronger safety measures in ...

In some parts of the world, autumn brings welcome relief from mosquitoes, such as the Northern house mosquito (Culex pipiens) ...

Why are women considered the "fairer sex" in humans, when in most animal species it is males that display the more elaborate ...

A study by researchers at The University of Manchester, carried out alongside the Universities of Melbourne and Copenhagen, ...

A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that ...

Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...

Quantum materials offer significant technological prospects—if we can understand them at the atomic scale. A team from the ...

Researchers at Toho University have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism controlling how dying cells release the ...