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New Haven, Conn.-- Yale experts and their partners in a national research consortium have identified several genes and gene clusters associated with the immune response...

(CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Aug. 25, 2017) - The Structural Genomics Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (SGC-UNC), in partnership with...

Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis The Public Strawberry Breeding Program at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues in California and Florida have received a $4.5...

Credit: Caleb Doll, Broadie Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Fragile X syndrome--the most common heritable cause of autism spectrum disorder--is something of a phantom. It interferes with...

An extensive exercise to map genetic variation in Sweden has found 33 million genetic variants, 10 million of which are novel. Large-scale DNA sequencing methods...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 25, 2017) - Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic...

Little fungi pack a punch: "Magic mushrooms" of the Psilocybe species produce psychoactive compounds that alter perception when ingested. Recently, the effects on the neuronal...

(Wake Forest University) Within the next century, rising ocean temperatures around the Galápagos Islands are expected to make the water too warm for a key...

Credit: Ana Carnaval City College of New York biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval co-heads an interdisciplinary team of scientists that won a National Science Foundation Growing...

(Hokkaido University) A nanosheet made of organic polymers has been developed to prevent the drying and deforming of biological samples, thus enabling high-quality imaging under...

As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions like Alzheimer's disease. A new...

An extensive exercise to map genetic variation in Sweden has found 33 million genetic variants, 10 million of which are novel. Large-scale DNA sequencing methods...

Credit: Photo: J. Kraus/ TUM Each atomic layer thin, tear-resistant, and stable. Graphene is seen as the material of the future. It is ideal for...

Biologists at Lund University in Sweden are now able to show that the receptors enabling the primitive moth species, Eriocrania semipurpurella, find an individual of...

New Orleans. LA - The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $10 million grant over five years to...