Professor James Timmons worked with a team of researchers from Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland, to investigate the effect of ‘high-intensity…
Earlier studies showed that this peptide released by the heart muscle in response to stress lowers blood pressure and has diuretic properties, with levels…
Successful salmon farming in Norway and other countries depends on the use of vaccination. Vaccination gives salmon good protection against several diseases,…
What separates the few cancer cells that survive chemotherapy – leaving the door open to recurrence – from those that don't? Weizmann Institute scientists…
This is the first study to examine the inherited characteristics of social networks and to establish a genetic role in the formation and configuration of these…
The findings shed light on how cholesterol is transported through the cells of the body and suggest a possible therapeutic target for Niemann-Pick type C…
A family of island-dwelling birds form new species faster than any other known bird, according to a University of Kansas researcher who used modern genetic…
Florida Atlantic University researcher and member of the Center for Ocean Exploration and Deep-Sea Research at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Dr….
Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology describe the creation of the flies that, when released into a wild population, could out-compete the…
Much of the diversity remains hidden ‘under the surface’ in buffered form. This has been revealed by research conducted by the University of Groningen,…
The researchers identified fast evolving human genes by comparing our genome with those of other primates. However, surprisingly, the patterns of molecular…
The study, available online and appearing in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify the specific signal that establishes…
These new tools are photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (PAFPs) and other advanced fluorescent proteins (FPs), several of which have been developed by…
The search for weight loss therapies is as old as medicine itself. Small molecule treatments are marginally effective or cause undesirable side effects, some…
This phenomenon – termed ‘beat induction’ – is likely to have contributed to music’s origin. It enables such actions as clapping, making music together and…
The study involved 254 people with brain tumors and 238 people with no cancers. All those with tumors had glioblastoma multiforme, the most common type of…
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