“These findings establish that genetic factors play a strong role in autism spectrum disorder,” says Acting NIH Director Raynard Kington, M.D., Ph.D. “Detailed…

For the purpose of promoting the USGENE® in-house version more effectively in Europe, US-based SequenceBase Corporation and FIZ Karlsruhe have entered into an…

But likely due to genetics, even the recommended dose can induce serious liver damage in a significant number of people. In a study published online in Genome…

In the case of tuberculosis, Ohio State University researchers are using mathematical modeling to determine whether a change to the natural switching time…

A team led by Yale University researchers has successfully implemented simple algorithms using a quantum processor based on microwave solid-state…

Conventional electronic devices use the flow of electrons to process and transmit information throughout the conducting and semiconducting circuits of a…

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in collaboration with Edinburgh based company Ingenza Ltd are searching for new…

Donning full scuba gear, Hemmings stood in 130 feet of water on a peninsula at the intersection of two ancient rivers nearly 100 miles offshore from Tampa. The…

Meteorites are the only surviving physical record of the formation of our Solar System and by analysing them researchers can glean valuable information about…

The gift from Wayne Laufer, a 1967 civil engineering graduate of Missouri S&T (then known as the University of Missouri-Rolla), and his wife, Gayle, will fund…

The research team, including CSIRO scientist Dr Rob Hough, was led by Professor Phil Bland of Imperial College London. The remarkable “detective” work was…

“One of the biggest challenges in Physics today is to discover the true nature of dark matter, which cannot be directly observed – even though it seems to make…

The investigators – from the United States, Italy and South Africa – report in the journal Circulation that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of…

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an…

Making note of the ‘unusual’ rocks he later found on the car’s hood, Garchinski chalked the incident up to vandalism and filed a police report. It wasn’t until…

However, researchers at Texas Tech University, the University of Kansas and University of Florida have found that the animal’s strange body actually made it a…

Now a group of marine biologists at the Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center has developed a tool that can spot these rhythms and identify individual…

Alexander Sutin and a team of acoustics experts at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey are developing a system that tracks the traffic by listening…

Your ability to make sense of Groucho’s words and Harpo’s pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new…

“Intermediate-mass black holes contain between 100 and 10,000 times the sun’s mass,” explained Tod Strohmayer, an astrophysicist at Goddard. “We observe the…