Month: October 2018

Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease ...

Programs supported by the National Institutes of Health are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human ...

It has long been known that so-called place cells in the human hippocampus are responsible for coding one's position in ...

Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared ...

Credit: Alexandra Yarger, Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--A common flesh fly takes off and maneuvers effortlessly, its head and body ...

Credit: Karin Söderlund Leifler/Linköping University The aging of males and females is influenced by how they choose to invest their ...

Thursday, 11 October 2018 - FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for chronic and rare neurological conditions based at RCSI, has ...

A new study has utilized a novel method to estimate long-term ozone exposure and previously reported epidemiological results to quantify ...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2018 -- Tardigrades are tiny animals that can live in water droplets ...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication ...

WASHINGTON (Oct. 11, 2018) -- Consciousness requires continuous, internally generated activity in the brain. The modulation of this activity is ...

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An insulin-binding protein in fruit flies could provide new opportunities for tackling disease-carrying mosquitos, such as malaria and yellow fever, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, ...

Credit: Kent State University Heather Caldwell, Ph.D., a professor in Kent State University's Department of Biological Sciences, recently received a ...

URBANA, Ill. - In the fight against aflatoxin, dairy producers often turn to sequestering agents such as clay to reduce ...

Credit: BioBricks Foundation A new easy-to-use legal tool that enables open exchange of biological materials is launched today. The OpenMTA ...

Credit: (Courtesy photo by Wyss Institute at Harvard University) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 11, 2018) -- An affordable children's ...

Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have genetically engineered a ...

Bottom Line: Obesity was associated with an increased risk of early onset colorectal cancer (CRC) among women younger than 50. ...