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Cell Signals Reveal Ear Sensory Organ Formation in Mice

Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists…

Life & Chemistry

New Parkinson's gene is linked to immune system

The long-term study involved a global consortium, including Johns Hopkins researchers from the Center for Inherited Disease Research who performed genome-wide…

Life & Chemistry

Fertilizer Chemicals Linked to Animal Development Issues

In a study published in the Aug. 27 edition of PLoS One, the NC State researchers show that water fleas take up nitrates and nitrites – common chemicals used…

Life & Chemistry

Key Genetic Driver of Severe Allergic Asthma Uncovered

The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers…

Life & Chemistry

Apple Genome Sequencing: Expanding Knowledge of Tree Fruits

An international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the USA have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Link to Common Migraine Discovered by Researchers

A world-wide collaboration of researchers has identified the first-ever genetic risk factor associated with common types of migraine. The researchers, who…

Health & Medicine

Gene-Environment Interactions Model for Understanding Psychosis

The incidence of psychotic disorders varies greatly across places and demographic groups, as do symptoms, course, and treatment response across individuals….

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Decode All Genes in One Breakthrough Study

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Medical Genetics at the Charité Universitätsmedizin – Berlin have succeeded…

Studies and Analyses

Neuronal Diversity: Key Insights from Carnegie Mellon Study

Much like snowflakes, no two neurons are exactly alike. But it's not the size or shape that sets one neuron apart from another, it's the way it responds to…

Studies and Analyses

Parental Medicine Misuse Poses Risks to Children’s Health

The researchers, led by Dr. Rebekah Moles from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, say that dosing errors and inappropriate use of such medicines lead…

Physics & Astronomy

Vulnerability Discovered in Commercial Quanto Cryptography

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg together with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of…

Studies and Analyses

McMaster Study Challenges Clopidogrel Effectiveness Reports

After researchers from the United States, France and Germany reported clopidogrel is less effective in some patients, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…

Studies and Analyses

Payday Proximity: How It Shapes Consumer Behavior

As any nine-to-fiver will testify, a new paycheck brings with it a familiar sense of freedom, albeit one that dwindles in lockstep with the balance in one's…

Health & Medicine

Smoked Cannabis Eases Chronic Pain and Improves Well-Being

For people suffering chronic pain, smoked cannabis reduces pain, improves mood and helps sleep, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical…

Physics & Astronomy

Space telescope’s new survey of outer galaxy helps Iowa State astronomers study stars

Massimo Marengo, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is using data from Spitzer's infrared telescope to study big, cool-temperature stars and the…

Life & Chemistry

New Genomic Marker Helps Identify Tuberculosis Patients

It may soon be possible to identify patients who will develop tuberculosis, as scientists have identified changes in the blood specific to the disease. These…

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