The scientists recently discovered a piece of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Mexico, a location geologists long had assumed was part of the North…
“The risk of developing coronary heart disease due to a combination of negative personality traits in people has never before been explored,” said the study's…
Composed of apple puree and oregano oil, which acts as a natural antibacterial agent, the coating shows promise in laboratory studies of becoming a…
The country's leading African-American lawmakers, civil rights leaders and medical experts today called on the federal government to adopt and implement a new…
Several lines of evidence point to a protein called Tribbles, named after the furry creatures that took over the starship Enterprise in the original “Star…
Many women experience declines in their memory during and after menopause, a change thought to be due, in part, to the rapid hormonal changes they weather…
A team led by Adam Riess, a professor in The Johns Hopkins University's Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy and a Space Telescope Institute…
Central to this discovery is the fundamental process of gene expression. When a gene is ready to produce a protein, the two strands of DNA that comprise the…
Why are some people more self-sufficient than others? Why are some people more willing to volunteer or help out than others? What makes some people seem…
In a study of island lizards exposed to a new predator, the scientists found that natural selection dramatically changed direction over a very short time,…
It's the same for a cell–just before it divides, it recruits protein complexes that repair breakage that may have occurred along the linear DNA chains making…
Typically, fuel is the sole consideration used to decide the location of site treatments – where trees and shrubs are cleared away or burned in order to…
Transcription is the first step in the process cells employ to read and carry out the out instructions contained in genes. Transcription is carried out by a…
Many scientists have predicted that the result of this influx of greenhouse gas will be even more warming, followed by even more fires and so on – a vicious…
New research helps explain polio's persistence in India despite massive immunization efforts and offers hope for the campaign to stamp out the virus once and…
The most conspicuous increase has been seen among children under the age of 5 years. The EU-funded Diabetes Prevention study is generating a wealth of…
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