WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization has awarded more than $143,000 to three projects, one each led by researchers...
Many people would like to see better animal welfare and transparency in livestock farming. In recent years, agriculture has increasingly tried to be more open,...
Autism spectrum disorder has been associated with hundreds of different genes, but how these distinct genetic mutations converge on a similar pathology in patients has...
Researchers at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have...
How old is your dog in human years? And what factors contribute to a long and healthy life for a dog?Credit: Camden Olson How old...
A graft can be a life-saving device for coronary heart disease, which remains the leading cause of death for both men and women in the...
Ithaca, NY—At night, hummingbirds lower their body temperature and metabolism drastically by dropping into an energy-saving state of inactivity called torpor. Scientists from multiple universities...
A genome study undertaken by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers to look for variants in a gene considered a fundamental building block for microscopic...
In cold conditions, brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat generates heat to keep the body warm. Compared with white adipose tissue, BAT has more...
The function of an enzyme, critical to most forms of life, has been revealed. Credit: Shannon McKie The function of an enzyme, critical to most forms...
Fabian Theis, Head of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz Munich and Professor for Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems at TUM: “It’s been a crazy...
Proteins are indispensable components in living organisms. They are not only “building material” for the body – they also make molecular communication between cells possible,...
Credit: Dr. Alon Barash, Bar-Ilan University A new study, led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, The University of Tulsa, and...
A new study has revealed that the rich native tree diversity in South and Southeast Asia is at risk of potential extinction. The region-wide and...
Molecular biologist Professor Dorothee Dormann of Mainz University will collaborate with Antwerp geneticist Professor Rosa Rademakers in a research project on less-common forms of dementia....
