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Credit: Robert Boston A new technique will help biologists tinker with genes, whether the goal is to turn cells into tiny factories churning out medicines,...

ATLANTA--Administering chemotherapy to African-American breast cancer patients prior to surgery could improve their prognosis and survival rates from the disease, according to a new study....

Credit: Courtesy University of Central Florida A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than 170 years ago to create...

Credit: Photo courtesy the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have discovered how a unique bacterial enzyme can blunt the...

Credit: Oxford University Press Sexual reproduction in animals has been recognized since ancient times and used in the breeding of domesticated animals for more than...

Credit: USFS Region 5 Why do some trees die in a drought and others don't? And how can we predict where trees are most likely...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture today announced availability of $8.8 million in funding...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced four grants totaling more than...

KINGSTON - New research, being published tomorrow in the journal Science, has uncovered a previously unknown means by which plants are able to regulate how...

The saga of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) in southern Bahia is part of Brazil's economic and cultural history. Brazil was once the world's second-largest cocoa producer...

Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. -Pediatric nutrition research has sh own the important effects of early-life nutrition on a baby's development--especially...

Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working with Boeing, NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to better understand the role...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...January 19, 2017 - An innovative, new system that uses smartwatch devices and software to verify handwritten signatures and detect even the most skilled...

Credit: Lukas Muechler Researchers at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Zurich have proposed a theory-based approach to characterize a class of metals that possess...

Credit: Ken Forbus A Northwestern University team developed a new computational model that performs at human levels on a standard intelligence test. This work is...