This result was published in Nature Genetics on January 18th 2009 by a research group led by CNRS senior researcher Philippe Froguel and Inserm researcher…
Published on January 16, 2009 in the journal Plos One, their work confirms that olfactory preferences are not solely determined by experience or culture, but…
Researchers discovered how some species that successfully invade large extensions of land have an unusual way of doing so: they cooperate with other colonies…
In the current issue of Journal of General Virology a team of scientists from Africa, USA and France report that within this common ancestry there are distinct…
European and Canadian researchers have, for the first time, drawn a map of genetic risk factors that can lead to two forms of severe obesity: early-onset…
Increased competition leads to both faster and larger sperms, and the research findings now being published in the scientific journal PNAS, Proceedings of the…
Now, armed with detailed information about the structure of this enzyme, researchers hope to design new drugs that will seek it out and disable it, providing a…
By modelling the ways in which genes for language might have evolved alongside language itself, the study showed that genetic adaptation to language would be…
Research published today (Jan 20) ahead of print in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood documents the non-drug ingredients…
Moreover, the problem is set to rise: it is predicted that by 2010 India’s population will suffer approximately 60% of the world’s heart disease.Today, an…
The study, by researchers at UCL (University College London), University of Warwick and LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), shows that…
The EP states that the genes of an organism can be expressed beyond its immediate biological boundary, extending for example to birds' nests, or the behaviour…
Many organisms live out their lives on schedules established by internal clock mechanisms, generated by the combined action of multiple regulatory networks…
New pathways for the biological activity of two little-understood enzymes emerge from a theoretical investigationThe enzymes, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO)…
The so-called LINE-1 retrotransposon is a mobile genetic element that can multiply and insert itself into chromosomal DNA at many different locations. This…
The worms will spend about two weeks in the Japanese Kibo laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to earth.Dr Nathaniel…