The answers to these questions could help doctors and researchers manipulate protein levels in the body that cause disease, especially cancer. A University of…
A Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural…
A new study suggests video game-playing for less than an hour a day is linked with better-adjusted children and teenagers. The research, carried out by Oxford…
Scientists have new clues this week about one of the baffling electronic properties of the iron-based high-temperature superconductor barium iron nickel…
This NOAA-funded research, which used a new approach to study one of the most important commercial tuna species in the Atlantic, provides the longest available…
Standard scores measuring “adaptive behavior” in boys with fragile X syndrome tend to decline during childhood and adolescence, the largest longitudinal study…
A St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital study found that 73 percent of adult survivors of childhood cancer more than doubled their risk of developing metabolic…
In one of the largest prevalence studies to date, researchers from the U.K. provide national, regional, and global genotype prevalence estimates for the…
Many studies have shown the potential for global climate change to cut food supplies. But these studies have, for the most part, ignored the interactions…
The study, by researchers at Utrecht University and Rutgers University, appears in the journal Child Development.
“Since reading is an ability that can be improved, our findings have implications for reading instruction,” according to Stuart J. Ritchie, research fellow in…
These are the kind of self-control dilemmas that people face all the time. And according to research from a University of Illinois expert in new product…
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic disorder that causes obsessive-compulsive and repetitive behaviors, and other behaviors on the autistic spectrum, as well…
“Screening pulse is the method of choice for checking for irregular heartbeat for people over age 65 who have never had a stroke. Our study shows it may be a…
A new study that examined the survival rates of 12 different shark species when captured as unintentional bycatch in commercial longline fishing operations…
Lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the United States, with more than 170,000 students now playing the sometimes hard-hitting game….