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Researchers identify missing links that connect human DNA variation with disease
Credit: Image: Drs C. Varnai and P. Fraser, © The Babraham Institute 2016. A team of Cambridge researchers led by...
Restoring flawed tumor vessels could lead to better cancer treatments
Researchers led by Peter Carmeliet (VIB-KU Leuven) have found a novel way to normalize the dysfunctional blood vessels that are...
New ‘smart metal’ technology to keep bridge operational in next big quake
Credit: Photo Courtesy Washington Department of Transportation. RENO, Nev. - A bridge that bends in an strong earthquake and not...
The CNIO takes part in the biggest European project for the study of the epigenome
The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) publishes simultaneously a collection of 41 papers that contain major advances in the study...
New research clarifies why wounds heal more slowly with age
Credit: Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology at The Rockefeller University/Cell Older bodies need longer to mend. This reality of aging...
Beyond the DNA
Credit: Christoph Bock/CeMM Scientists have established comprehensive maps of the human epigenome, shedding light on how the body regulates which...
Insurers use high drug costs to deter some Obamacare patients, economist says
AUSTIN, Texas -- An economist at The University of Texas at Austin will brief members of Congress on how insurers...
Scientists design first reserve network balancing fishing benefits, species protection
Credit: Claudio Contreras-Koob, International League of Conservation Photographers For the first time, Smithsonian researchers and collaborators have designed a marine...
Corals survived Caribbean climate change
Credit: Monica Medina, NMNH Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years...
Students, teachers invited to ‘Grow With It!’
Credit: ASA Middle school students can experience the richness of science with real-world applications. Agronomy - Grow With It!, a...
Nutty stimulant revealed as anticancer tool
Credit: Combination of Wikimedia images Arecoline -- the stimulant component of areca nuts -- has anticancer properties, researchers at Winship...
Ice is no match for CSU-developed coating
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - Anyone who's ever chipped ice off a windshield or nervously watched a plane get de-iced, take...
Tracking the flow of quantum information
Credit: Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein/Yale University New Haven, Conn. - If objects in motion are like rainwater flowing through...
Estimating survival in patients with lung cancer, brain metastases
A new article published online by JAMA Oncology updates a tool to estimate survival in patients with lung cancer and...
Coral genomes reveal how populations rebound after environmental catastrophes
New genome-sequence data show that Caribbean corals that have survived mass-extinction events caused by environmental change can rebound and expand...
BC scientists play major role in international effort to map the human epigenome
BC scientists and their colleagues from across the globe have made a major leap forward in understanding how the human...
3-D imaging technique maps migration of DNA-carrying material at the center of cells
Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF Scientists have mapped the reorganization of genetic material that takes place when a stem cell matures...
Uncombable hair gene discovered
Credit: Photo: private Many parents know from their own experience that it is not always easy to comb children's hair....
Ducklings ‘maintain two separate memory banks of visual information’
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with...
Study links health literacy to higher levels of health insurance coverage
Uninsured individuals who had greater knowledge about health insurance and financial issues were more likely to gain coverage after health...