Mosquitoes stop feeding because signals from rectal cells tell them they’re full, offering a target for preventing human bites.

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Grapes contain more than 1,600 compounds that benefit your heart, skin, brain, gut, and more, a new paper posits. Because of ...

Kidney stones can cause some of the most intense pain people ever experience, affecting daily life and leading many to hospital emergency visits. It affects one in 11 people in the U.S., and almost ...

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

MDI Bio Lab scientists discover how the fish solves a basic challenge in regenerative biology-insights in their newest publication in the journal Development could one day guide human repair.

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Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.

Chronic kidney disease is rising rapidly in India. Know how diabetes and high blood pressure silently damage kidney function, early warning signs to watch for, and ways to protect your kidneys.

Improved screening and higher rates of diabetes are contributing to increase, but many cases can be prevented with early ...