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Study of Mitochondrial DNA Ties Ancient Remains to Living Descendants
Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of...
Scientists Map the Wiring of the Biological Clock
The World Health Organization lists shift work as a potential carcinogen, says Erik Herzog, PhD, Professor of Biology in Arts...
Researchers identify abnormal brain networks in Fragile X syndrome
The genetic malady known as Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited autism and intellectual disability. Brain...
Bioengineering Study Finds that Bacteria Organize According to ‘Rich-Get-Richer’ Principle
Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out that...
Researchers chart epigenomics of stem cells that mimic early human development
Scientists have long known that control mechanisms known collectively as "epigenetics" play a critical role in human development, but they...
Cow blood prevents globs of nano gold
A protein from bovine blood can keep gold nanoparticles from clumping in a solution—a discovery that could lead to improved...
The artificial pancreas that keeps tabs on sugar
Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes...
Brain catches grammar errors even when you don’t realize it
Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University...
Carnivorous Plant Throws out ‘Junk’ DNA
Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding...
Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor
In the middle of the South Atlantic, there’s a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds,...
Robotic insects make first controlled flight
Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less...
How proteins read meta DNA code
Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence....
Brain Prostheses Create a Sense of Touch
The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his team fitted the...
A GPS in Your DNA
Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a...
Rewriting DNA to Understand What It Says
Our ability to “read” DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and...
New generation bionics – wireless and touch-sensitive
Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...
Brain activity decoded to play back heard words
Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...
DNA motors on
With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success As...
A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain
On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...
Bacteria can communicate with each other through nanotubes
A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The...