Credit: Vasilijevic J, et al (2017) Flu viruses contain defective genetic material that may activate the immune system in infected patients, and new research published...
Credit: Lindsey E. Peavey (NOAA/CINMS) Environmental disturbances such as El Niño shake up the marine food web off Southern California, new research shows, countering conventional...
Credit: Matthew Cordes, using UCSF Chimera molecular graphics package A yeast protein that evolved from scratch can fold into a three-dimensional shape--contrary to the general...
Credit: Garg, et al. Cell Host & Microbe, Oct. 19, 2017. University of California San Diego researchers have developed the first 3D spatial visualization tool...
Infidelity is very common. At least 20 per cent of couples - and perhaps many more, depending on where you set the limit - are...
WORCESTER -- A new study by scientists at UMass Medical School shows that using a technique called "nuclease-free" gene editing to correct cells with the...
URBANA, Ill. - Research has shown that a mother's diet during pregnancy, particularly one that is high-fat, may program her baby for future risk of...
Credit: Mark Johnston/NHMU A remarkable new fossilized skeleton of a tyrannosaur discovered in the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern...
Credit: Mitch Mirkin Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War illness to DNA within cellular...
Credit: Penn State Extension A test to determine whether bitter pit -- a disorder that blindsides apple growers by showing up weeks or months after...
Credit: UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - The saying "Listen to your gut" is taking on new meaning in the hunt for clues about Parkinson's disease....
Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a forest before dawn to listen...
For the first time, scientists have completed the sequencing of the stevia plant genome. Lead scientists from PureCircle Stevia Institute and KeyGene have unveiled this...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 19, 2017 - The science of agriculture grows more complex every year. Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of...
Credit: SEIDI The 25 centres and 16 research units accredited with the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" excellence distinctions formally established this afternoon the...
