Supporting women’s autonomy in prenatal testing
Noninvasive fetal genetic sequencing done early in pregnancy is poised to become a routine part of prenatal care. While it could offer patients substantial benefits,...
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Arrival of modern humans in Southeast Asia questioned
Credit: Tanya Smith and Rokus Awe Due Humans may have exited out of Africa and arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier than previously thought,...
Research to advance disease therapies, understand cosmic rays among cargo headed to ISS
Credit: NASA The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is targeted for launch August 14 from Kennedy Space Center for its twelfth commercial resupply (CRS-12) mission to...
Salamanders that breed in the fall are less likely to disperse
Credit: MU Division of Biological Sciences With changing environments, pond-breeding salamanders face increasingly hazardous treks as the space between breeding ponds and their non-breeding habitat..
Exposure to antimicrobials during development may cause irreversible outcomes
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have discovered that exposure to environmental levels of triclocarban (TCC), an antibacterial chemical common in personal care products like soaps...
The benefits — and potential pitfalls — of urban green spaces
With the rapid expansion of the urban landscape, successfully managing ecosystems in built areas has never been more important. However, our understanding of urban ecology...
Too near, or too far? What fruit flies teach us about personal space
Credit: Anne F. Simon, Western University, Canada Most of us have had the experience of backing away when someone has stepped inside the bounds of...
New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry
Credit: Paul Tafforeau / ESRF The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes...
Mapping the brain
Credit: University of Konstanz In the past several years, and in close cooperation with the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in...
Defining standards for genomes from uncultivated microorganisms
During the Industrial Revolution, factories began relying on machines rather than people for mass production. Amidst the societal changes, standardization crept in, from ensuring nuts...
Researchers create biomaterial that delivers both a powerful drug and gene silencers
BROOKLYN, New York - Clinicians today have an arsenal of more than 200 drugs at their disposal for treating a range of cancers -- 68...
Insight into learning via ‘friend of fragile X’ gene
Credit: Ken Moberg. We can learn a lot about somebody from the friends they hang out with. This applies to people and also to genes...
Decommissioning Platform Holly
When the Colorado-based oil company Venoco, Inc. -- founded in Carpinteria, California, more than two decades ago -- declared bankruptcy last spring and ceded its...
Family break-ups lead to domestic violence in fruit fly relationships
Credit: Amy Hong Male fruit flies with strong family ties are less likely to become abusive during mating than others, according to new Oxford research....
Scientists unearth cell ‘checkpoint’ that stops allergic diseases
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the regulation of immune cells that play a pivotal role in allergic diseases...
