Credit: Changxi Yang, Tsinghua University WASHINGTON -- The exciting applications of wearable sensors have sparked a tremendous amount of research and business investment in recent...
A pregnant mother sleeping on her back during late pregnancy may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research published in The Journal of...
The virulence of pathogens is considered an important health care problem due to their resistance against conventional antibiotics. The recent challenge for researchers involves the...
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating an European project called ESTABLISH, which aims to provide a healthier and safer environment thereby improving the...
The National Institutes of Health and 11 leading biopharmaceutical companies Thursday launched the Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies (PACT), a five-year public-private research collaborati..
Credit: Junji Hirota Each odor-detecting neuron (referred to as olfactory sensory neuron from here on), chooses a single odorant receptor gene from a fairly large...
Credit: Mark Vermeij Coral reefs harbor an incredible diversity of life, both sea creatures we can see and microbial life that we cannot. These organisms...
Credit: Photo by Cecilia Hedström. Out with the cigarette pack, put a cigarette in the mouth and light up. That is a well-known action for...
HANOVER, N.H. - Oct. 12, 2017 - Concentration of carbon dioxide during an intense period of global warmth may have been as low as half...
Public utility managers will be able to predict drinking water quality more accurately thanks to a team of scientists with the Global Change Center at...
Fifty-two previously unidentified genes that are critical for hearing have been found by testing over 3,000 mouse genes. The newly discovered genes will provide insights...
A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes have been altered might produce...
Patients with a rare bone cancer of the skull and spine - chordoma - could be helped by existing drugs, suggest scientists from the Wellcome...
New research suggests that the last common ancestor of apes--including great apes and humans--was much smaller than previously thought, about the size of a gibbon....
Any scientist who studies groups of people knows that the characteristics of the "sample" -- the group of people selected for the study -- can...
