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Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have developed a much-needed genetic resource that will greatly accelerate the study of gene functions in wheat. The resource, a...

As global fish stocks continue sinking to alarmingly low levels, a joint study by marine fisheries experts from within and outside of China concluded that...

Credit: Apiwat Wisitsorasak/ King Mongkut University of Technology HOUSTON - (Jan. 17, 2017) - Over time, when a metallic glass is put under stress, its...

A naturally-occurring compound has been found to block a molecular process thought to underlie Parkinson's Disease, and to suppress its toxic products, scientists have reported....

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer...

An international collaboration led by clinical researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has shown proof-of-concept that truly personalised therapy will be possible in the...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Evidence overwhelmingly supports a link between cognitive decline and cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, and cerebral ..

The top 2 inches of topsoil on all of Earth's landmasses contains an infinitesimal fraction of the planet's water -- less than one-thousandth of a...

Diatoms are a common type of photosynthetic microorganism, found in many environments from marine to soil; in the oceans, they are responsible for more than...

Credit: Alina Isakova/EPFL Scientists at EPFL have developed a technique that can be a game-changer for genetics by making the characterization of DNA-binding proteins much...

Metastatic pancreatic cancer -- cancer that has spread from the pancreas to other tissues and is responsible for most patient deaths -- changes its metabolism...

Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy Just when lighting aficionados were in a dark place, LEDs came to the rescue. Over the past decade, LED technologies --...

Credit: Julia Fine, Penn State A chemical that is thought to be safe and is, therefore, widely used on crops -- such as almonds, wine...

Credit: L.A. Cicero In a lab 18 feet below the Engineering Quad of Stanford University, researchers in the Dionne lab camped out with one of the...

Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Mass livestock production is driving molecular changes in diseases that could lead to human pandemics, according to an expert from the University...