This is one of the findings of a study from the University of Gothenburg that is being published in the scientific journal Nature. This study heralds a new era…
Unraveling the genetics of social behavior and cognitive abilities, researchers at the University of Utah and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have…
Those with compromised immune systems can, however, face serious complications. And the disease can also have serious effects on a human fetus if contracted by…
They studied the development of the lateral line organ in zebrafish, a sensory system found in fish and amphibians which serves to detect water flow and…
The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of radioactive uranium waste…
According to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other organizations, researchers discovered a surprising correlation between “middle class”…
In recent years, scientists learned a lot about the different components that transmit ethylene signals inside cells. But a central regulator of ethylene…
The genome of a marine bacterium living 2,500 meters below the ocean's surface is providing clues to how life adapts in extreme thermal and chemical gradients,…
The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated,…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new certified reference material that can be an important quality assurance tool for…
A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication—when a photon creates multiple electrons—is a real phenomenon in…
Mice suffering from metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes produce only small amounts of a molecule called LSR in the liver, as reported by researchers headed…
The researchers say their finding lays out a core evolutionary list of molecules needed to make a tooth. These original dental genes, like a four-cylinder…
“Unlike a widely used genomic test that applies only to lymph-node negative, estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer, this new genomic test is broadly…
Genetics may play a surprisingly small role in determining the precise wiring of the mammalian nervous system, according to painstaking mapping of every neuron…
Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are masters of everything to do with solar energy because they are able to almost completely transform…
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