Month: December 2016

Despite being on the market for nearly a decade, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing continues to be controversial among experts and ...

Credit: Xiaojiang Chen, USC For years, scientists have puzzled over what prompts the intertwined double-helix DNA to open its two ...

Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic ...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Although mutations in the PARK2 gene that encodes the Parkin protein are associated with developing early-onset ...

Credit: Nereo Kalebic/EMBL For many patients with chronic pain, any light touch - even just their clothes touching their skin ...

Credit: Hiroshi Yoshinada A group of Japanese researchers developed a prototype construction robot for disaster relief situations. This prototype has ...

Credit: Giampaolo Pisano, Cardiff University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have created a new magnetic mirror-based device that could one day help ...

Credit: Soterix Medical Inc The EEG-Guided High-Definition tES (HD-tES) system is a breakthrough in allowing identification of brain regions associated ...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Amber Jacobson, producer Life aboard the International Space Station depends upon massive ...

What should healthy young men who want to watch their weight and manage their blood sugar levels drink? Can they ...

Credit: Hayato Shiba Scientists in Japan have revealed that if a glassy solid possesses a planar (sheet-like) structure, it can ...

Credit: Lehigh University Professor Nelson Tansu of Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science has been named ...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2016 -- Vanilla is more than a standby ice cream flavor. It's ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

Credit: Springer Soil can be beautiful, odiferous, slimy or sublime. It provides simple pleasures, such as its rich earthy scent ...

Credit: Earlham Institute RenSeq (1) is the method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer disease resistance in plants. Each ...

Wheat, one of the most widely consumed grains in the world, contains gluten, a mixture of proteins that can be ...

Credit: Daniel Janies The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in ...

FRANKFURT. Nature often produces a whole weaponry of active ingredients to ensure it is well prepared for any scenario that ...

(Umea University) The first clinical study to investigate if herpes virus drugs can have an effect on fundamental Alzheimer's disease ...