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A new gene therapy can turn certain brain glial cells into functioning neurons, which in turn could help repair the brain after a stroke or...

As obesity continues to be the leading cause of deaths world-wide, researchers are working to understand what role genetics play in a person's predisposition for...

StataCorp and Code Ocean announce a partnership enabling researchers to share Stata software code on Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility platform for researchers to share,...

PORTLAND, Ore.--As you walk away from a campfire on a cool autumn night, you quickly feel colder. The same thing happens in outer space. As...

Credit: (Image credit - Bernhard Ludewig, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics) PORTLAND, Ore.--Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer...

Credit: LivAssured A new high-tech bracelet, developed by scientists from the Netherlands detects 85 percent of all severe night-time epilepsy seizures. That is a much...

Credit: Estonian Research Council/Reimo Rehkli The research group of Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) received a patent for...

Credit: University of Seville How did words or the rain sound inside the Mosque of Cordoba in the time of Abd al-Rahman I? Today, thanks...

An Oregon State University environmental ethicist and scientists from nine other universities say an international oversight panel is needed to guide decisions about whether and...

Credit: (Copyright, Larisa DeSantis, free to use.) Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods than their uninjured counterparts, who may have provided injured cats...

Scientists have discovered a drug combination that could halt the progression of fibrosis - a condition believed to be responsible for almost half of all...

Credit: A. Bergs, A. Gottschalk. Finding food and staying at a food source are crucial survival strategies in the animal world. But how are external...

The study of children in Shanghai, from birth to three years, found that exposure to fine particles (PM2.5) from vehicle exhausts, industrial emissions and other...

The left and the right hemispheres specialise in different tasks. However, it has not yet been fully understood how one hemisphere assumes dominance over the...

Credit: Arima Genomics, Inc. SAN DIEGO-- Arima Genomics, Inc., a biotechnology company empowering researchers to apply long-range genetic sequence and structure information towards the understanding..