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Consumption of bushmeat can put consumers at risk of disease. Measures to understand the situation are therefore important for supporting disease prevention and conservation strategies.

An innovative new solar-cell design which has the capability to drive down costs of solar cell manufacture, has been created.

New research from the School of Veterinary Medicine lays out a possible mechanism by which alcohol, cigarette smoke, and exposure to certain medications and toxins can weaken bone.

Many studies indicating that DNA nanostructures can enter cells more readily than simple DNA strands are flawed, according to researchers at McGill University. In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Central Science, the team demonstrate that many DNA cage nanostructures aren't taken up by cells to a significant extent.

Although pollutant exposure can affect two hallmarks of aging in people (mitochondrial DNA content and telomere length), the results are not so clear-cut.

Research shows that although they undergo orderly division during growth, the fate of plant cells is often determined by their location in the growing plant rather than how they started out.

Researchers at the Crick and Imperial College London have generated malaria parasites resistant to a promising new class of candidate antimalarial drugs. By analyzing the structural changes behind the resistance, they identified novel compounds that were immune to this mechanism of resistance.

New research has discovered how a hospital superbug evades the immune system to cause infection – paving the way for new treatments.

Using stem cells derived from six people, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers recapitulated retinal cells in the lab. This “eye-in-a-dish” model allowed them to look for genetic variants that might contribute to age-related macular degeneration.

An international team of researchers discovered a previously unknown visual system that may allow color vision in deep, dark waters where animals were presumed to be colorblind.