The results give insight into the genetic changes involved in domestication and may help with future efforts to breed new traits into tomato or other crops,…
A new UC San Francisco study highlights the potential importance of the vast majority of human DNA that lies outside of genes within the cell.The researchers…
A new method for the desalination of sea water has been reported by a team of American and German researchers in the journal Angewandte Chemie. In contrast to…
Called the Cambodian tailorbird (Orthotomus chaktomuk), the previously undescribed species was found in Cambodia’s urbanized capitol Phnom Penh and several…
Angus MacLeod and colleagues note that although many HRV infections cause mild disease, they can lead to dangerous complications for millions of people with…
Down syndrome, more commonly known as “trisomy 21” is very often accompanied by pathologies found in the general population: Alzheimer's disease, leukemia, or…
Shortly after birth, Charlie Saffian was diagnosed with Down syndrome.His sister Eleanor was nine at the time. At first, she didn’t know what to expect of her…
Scientists at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston have developed a microarray platform…
A research team led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has discovered that marine microbes are adapted to very narrow and specialized niches in their…
Evolution, it seems, sometimes jumps instead of crawls. A research team led by a University of Chicago scientist has discovered two key mutations that sparked…
Nanoparticles that deliver short strands of RNA offer a way to treat cancer and other diseases by shutting off malfunctioning genes. Although this approach has…
MIT biologists have discovered a mechanism that allows cells to read their own DNA in the correct direction and prevents them from copying most of the…
University of Oregon chemists have developed a selective probe that detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels as low as 190 nanomolar (10 parts per billion) in…
The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first direct evidence of widespread genome…
How do fish swim? It is a simple question, but there is no simple answer.Researchers at Northwestern University have revealed some of the mechanical properties…
A process known as ethanol steam reforming is creating opportunities for fuel cell researchers, thanks to the recent rise of the bioethanol industry. This…
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