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In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars—a torpedo-shaped fish ...

An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human body—and only a small fraction are harmful to our health. However, the ...

Wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events are no longer the only ways climate change affects children around the ...

Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the ...

Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune ...

Slaughterhouses are places most people never want to go, and might seem like unlikely places to search for rare or endangered species. In West Africa, however, they are among the last places one can ...

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After taking a pill, the drugs it contains are distributed throughout the body, reaching the tissues and cells affected by ...

Amide bonds are chemical linkages essential to biology, medicine and materials chemistry. Peptide bonds, a class of amide ...