Month: January 2018

Stem cells sustain the capacity of self-renewal and differentiation into specialized cells, offering exciting promises in both basic and applied ...

Credit: Svein Olav Bratlie/University of Gothenburg New ways of using mechanisms behind certain blood pressure medications may in the future ...

Credit: Ullas Karanth/WCS A new book co-edited by tiger biologist Dr. Ullas Karanth of (WCS) Wildlife Conservation Society and Dr. ...

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop ...

A new study from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa is poised to completely change our understanding of ...

Credit: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ethnic restaurants like to brag about how "authentic" they are. But when it ...

Women's cognitive functioning past middle age may be affected by the degree of gender equality in the country they live ...

Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can ...

Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Is there room for black bears in human-dominated ...

Credit: Wits University Scientists from the Wits School of Public Health, the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Kwa-Zulu Natal ...

When we exercise, our body's oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A ...

Credit: Autism Speaks Autism Speaks today released its Strategic Plan for Science 2018-2020, with emphasis on the organization's mission to ...

Credit: UBC Public Affairs / Claire Tugault-Lafleur Canadian children don't eat enough vegetables, fruit and dairy products during school hours, ...

Credit: Centre for Molecular Biology It has been proposed that somatic gene variations (SNV) present in few brain cells could ...

Credit: Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in ...

Credit: N. Zhao Birds benefit from flocking together — even when they're not of a feather. According to a new ...

Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health plans to expand its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, ...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017–For many people living with HIV, the stigma associated with their ...

Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2015)–The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) yesterday announced that Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) Assistant ...