With new advances in medicine happening daily, there's still plenty of guesswork when it comes to administering chemotherapy to cancer patients

The BAG4 protein regulates the flow of potassium in occlusive cells, which optimizes the use of water by the plant

Rapid imaging method could help reveal how conditions such as autism affect brain cells

Degraded samples can produce spurious results in research

Modern humans evolved in Africa, and we now know that human groups from all over the continent contributed to that process. A group of scientists says that means it is time to stop arguing about where in Africa humans 'really' came from

Marshes grow shorter, denser stems under high carbon dioxide, which can help them resist sea level rise

The St. Olaf College team's findings on song recognition in the fly Ormia ochracea are part of special on 'How Enemies Shape Communication Systems' published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Göttingen researchers unravel fundamental communication processes in proteins

The findings showed that of nearly 3 billion birds lost, 90 percent belong to 12 bird families, including sparrows, warblers, finches, and swallows—common, widespread species

New cutting-edge technologies will accelerate discovery

While simple prokaryotic bacteria formed within the first billion years of the Earth, the origin of eurkaryotes, the first cells with nuclei, took much longer.

Such diversity could contribute to wine's varying flavors, aromas, researchers say