Biology & Aging
Global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 have enabled a research team from the Autonomous University of Madrid to predict that the...
Researchers at UC Davis have shown how the innate immune system distinguishes between dangerous pathogens and friendly microbes. Like burglars...
When we imagine drama playing out between predators and prey, most of us picture stealthy lions and restless gazelle, or a sharp-taloned hawk latched...
High school grads shrink nearly 2 cm less, on average, than the illiterate.
Even if you didn't eat your veggies or drink your milk as a child, your...
In collaboration with an international research team, University of Copenhagen researchers have for the first time mapped telomerase, an enzyme which...
Older patients with higher blood levels of individual and total omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω3-PUFAs) have lower mortality than their peers...
Like tiny, crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields — but in opposite...
During embryonic development, animals generate many different types of cells, each with a distinct function and identity.
"Although the identities...
The field of regenerative medicine holds great promise, propelled by greater understanding of how stem cells differentiate themselves into many of...
When Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control...
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