The hereditary cancer syndrome is caused by an inherited mutation in a gene called BAP1, researchers say. The findings suggest that BAP1 mutations cause the…
Today, new international research led by Indiana University shows that as populations and species diversify, the exact shape and fit of genitalia steals the…
A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like…
Researchers with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute led the study…
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The New York Botanical Garden, and New York University have created the…
The resources, to be released on Thursday, follow a $6 million initiative to study how plant genes contribute to producing various chemical compounds, some of…
Many developing countries rely on traditional medicine as an accessible and affordable treatment option for human maladies. However, until now, scientific data…
The results of this study have been published as a Letter in the 11th December 2011 issue of the journal Nature.The team led by Patrick Mehlen, Director of the…
Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of revealing the presence of specific chemicals — whether toxins, disease markers, pathogens or explosives. The…
Those new bio-based tires — already available as prototypes— are the topic of an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the…
Whether it’s right under our nose or far away, when we observe an object we see it—provided we have healthy eyes and normal vision or suitable glasses—in…
The study is reported in Nature Immunology.Inflammation is part of the normal response to infection. One aspect of inflammation is the production of negatively…
A study led by Research Professor Matej Orešiè from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that Alzheimer's disease is preceded by a molecular…
Led by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, the mouse study may be ideal, they say, for testing new obesity controlling drugs and…
The technique, which is the first of its kind to use high-pressure chemistry for making well-developed films and wires of this particular kind of silicon…
In efforts to find new treatments for Parkinson’s Disease (PD), researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have…