But a new study, just published in the journal “PNAS”, shows that cattle genetic composition in the continent, especially among the South European breeds,…
There is no longer any need to waste time and effort learning how to use a terminal. Thus, the threshold for using increasingly popular self-service…
ExoMars will explore the Martian surface with a mobile rover and a stationary science module. ExoMars will: • search for traces of past and present life at,…
The postgraduate research project in the University's Department of Criminology aims to gather information from 'the world's most silent and abused women -…
Michael Milane and colleagues (University of California, Los Angeles) analyzed suicide rates in the US general population from 1960-2002. Suicide rates…
The new tool, described in PLoS Medicine, presents the risks and benefits of these different options in the form of a roulette wheel. The patient spins the…
Harley Feldbaum and colleagues (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) say that the available evidence does indeed suggest that HIV/AIDS is creating…
The patient went to a rural hospital in East Burma with a fever and was diagnosed as having a straightforward case of falciparum malaria. He was treated with…
“We found that gazelles had the lowest total evaporative water loss ever measured in an arid zone ungulate [hoofed animal],” write Stéphane Otrowski (National…
The scientific team trained their telescopes on Supernova 2003gd, which exploded in the NGC 628 spiral galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth. The light from…
“The discovery of piRNAs reveals a new dimension of the small RNA world. The complexity of piRNAs and their correspondence to different types genomic sequences…
Mosquitoes employ the same immune factors to fight off bacterial pathogens as they do to kill malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites, according to a study by…
“OCD once was thought to be primarily psychological in origin,” says Yin Yao Shugart, Ph.D., statistical geneticist and associate professor of epidemiology at…
The discovery by researchers in Hopkins' Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences and McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine reveals that a protein…
For their groundbreaking work, Professors Meir Bialer and Boris Yagen of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products at the…
The robust pepper varieties were developed by a research tem headed by Dr. Yonatan Elkind of the Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in…