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If scientists could precisely regulate gene expression, they could turn off the genes responsible for illness and disease and turn...

Credit: Garg, et al. Cell Host & Microbe, Oct. 19, 2017. University of California San Diego researchers have developed the...

Credit: IRB Barcelona Physicians currently have no tools to help them detect breast cancer patients who will suffer metastasis, a...

New Orleans, LA - A pilot case control study of veterans of the US armed forces with mild traumatic brain...

Credit: Matthew Cordes, using UCSF Chimera molecular graphics package A yeast protein that evolved from scratch can fold into a...

Credit: AZTI-Tecnalia Therapy with phages, instead of antibiotics, is a highly promising option in aquaculture to control the transfer of...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 19, 2017 - The science of agriculture grows more complex every year. Today, the U.S. Department of...

Credit: Lindsey E. Peavey (NOAA/CINMS) Environmental disturbances such as El Niño shake up the marine food web off Southern California,...

Credit: Vasilijevic J, et al (2017) Flu viruses contain defective genetic material that may activate the immune system in infected...

Credit: Mark Gocke Wildlife managers and ranchers in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem soon will have a new mapping tool for...

(PHOENIX, Ariz. Oct. 19, 2017) Research by a Barrow Neurological Institute neurosurgery team on novel imaging technique assessment of patients...

Both HIV and injury are major public health problems, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the majority of...

Anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of clinically recognized pregnancies end in loss, according to the American Pregnancy Association, making...

For the first time, scientists have completed the sequencing of the stevia plant genome. Lead scientists from PureCircle Stevia Institute...

Credit: Hank Price: Dispatchable Solar Power Plant Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) can be a night-only dispatchable (D-CSP) plant; with its...

Credit: University of Stirling The environmental impact of hydropower generation in the Amazon may be greater than predicted, according to...

Credit: Image captured by A. Kielkowska and adapted by T. Chessa New research represents a promising step towards better understanding...

Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a...

Credit: BrightFocus Foundation So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two...