Where would we be without meiosis and recombination? For a start, none of us sexually reproducing organisms would be here,...

Unbalanced signaling by two molecules that regulate breathing leads to sleep apnea in mice and rats, researchers report in the...

Credit: Credit: DESY/Eberhard Reimann A Swedish-German team of researchers has cleared up a key process for the artificial production of...

Online media use such as social networking and gaming could be strongly influenced by our genes, according to a new...

There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic...

Credit: Don Hamerman/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be...

Credit: Daniel Miller URBANA, Ill. - Trees may be easy to spot on the plains of Africa but they are...

Credit: Z. Fayer. Non-indigenous species (NIS) are harming indigenous species and habitats in the Mediterranean Sea, impairing potentially exploitable marine...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Insects, like mammals including humans, sort chemicals by taste into a few categories...

Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...

Credit: Photo courtesy of UNC-NC State Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. After surgery to remove a cancerous tumor -- even if...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan.23, 2017 -- Simulation is a valuable tool to improve the...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Chemists at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that synthetic nanoparticles can achieve the same level of...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Jan. 23, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has received a $175,000 grant from the...

Tiny "submarines" that speed independently through the stomach, use gastric acid for fuel (while rapidly neutralizing it), and release their...

Several studies have indicated that schizophrenic patients are likely to show a high level of nicotine dependence. Scientists from the...

EMBO Programme Manager, Gerlind Wallon, explained, "EMBO Installation Grants encourage talented young group leaders to establish laboratories in countries which...

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics/The Rockefeller University Using a state-of-the-art imaging technology in which molecules are deep frozen,...

Credit: UC3M This research has recently been published in the electronic version of the scientific journal Biofabrication. In this article,...

CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. 23, 2017 - Recognizing the need to grow a global, interdisciplinary network focused on scientific discovery...