A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses. They are ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses.

Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It's perhaps the first thing we learn about these green life-forms. But how ...

The evolution of that tuber has been a mystery: the form of the modern potato plant most closely resembles that of three ...

The absorption of natural substances are further improved by mixing compounds with each other such as piperine with curcumin.

The study, from IIT's Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy group and funded within the European BrightEyes research project, ...

Long before the appearance of plants or animals, primitive multicellular organisms had developed an effective strategy to survive arsenic, a notoriously deadly poison. A recent study reveals ...