Researchers pinpoint a protein that can metabolize at least one of the insecticides, highlighting a route to identifying compounds that are friendlier to the critical pollinators.
The suit claims that Rational Vaccines, the company of recently deceased researcher William Halford, violated US and international laws when it carried out the procedure.
In an unusual evolutionary twist, local stick spiders have come up with an almost identical repertoire of color morphs in multiple locations.
Dominant male mammals are particularly at risk of infection by parasites.
The new classification system could help improve personalized medicine approaches to the disease.
Patients with the rare autoimmune condition, highlighted in the Oscar-nominated film The Big Sick, currently have limited treatment options.
The elimination of the biting pests was an added bonus after researchers unleashed a rat-eradication endeavor on the tiny islands.
Researchers engineered a system for bioluminescent imaging that is as much as 1,000 times stronger than existing methods.
The animal pictures and hand stencils were made in caves in Spain thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe.
The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
After implantation, the tissue developed blood vessels and became integrated into neuronal networks in the animals’ brains.
A preliminary clinical trial finds that the personalized therapy improves survival rates and has no severe side-effects.
Many cities around the globe, including Washington, DC, saw shrunken crowd sizes, and numerous events turned into rallies rather than processions.
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