A team led by Purdue University researchers examined the potential economic influence of adverse climate events, such as heat waves, drought and heavy rains,…
The researchers have developed models that challenge the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
The treatment is for bowel disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease, which affects one in 400 people in the UK and for which there is no cure. The…
Scientists have uncovered a vital link in the chain of events that gives stem cells their remarkable properties. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for…
In the latest proof that the oceans continue to offer remarkable findings and much of their vastness remains to be explored, scientists at Scripps Institution…
Why do some plants blossom even when days are short and gray? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology have found the answer to this…
Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc…
Using the same methodology for climate prediction as the International Panel on Climate Change and data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…
Now scientists are reporting that another form of cholesterol called oxycholesterol — virtually unknown to the public — may be the most serious cardiovascular…
As the debate over health care reform continues to unfold in town hall meetings and on Capitol Hill, a new study by two Harvard researchers has found that…
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have shown the first link between a newly discovered anti-aging gene and high blood pressure….
The findings are the first compelling evidence challenging the model under certain conditions, and could necessitate entirely new theoretical approaches to…
A new study from the University of Missouri may shed light on how to increase the level and quality of activity in the elderly. In the study, published in this…
The world could buy time to forestall disastrous environmental and geopolitical climate change effects by using existing technologies to curb emissions created…
This relationship is known as genotype-by-environment interaction (GE). Despite continued efforts to breed for cultivars with wide adaptability, GE is still a…
Bruce Frazier and Richard Rupp of Washington State University and Toby Rodgers and Crystal Briggs of Soil Survey conducted this work in the Pasayten River…