Credit: S. Segura-Bayona, IRB Barcelona The placenta, a transient organ that links the developing embryo to its mother, is responsible for nutrient, waste and gas...
Credit: MPI of Immunobiology a. Epigenetics/ F. Zenk We are more than the sum of our genes. Epigenetic mechanisms modulated by environmental cues such as...
Credit: Jeremiah J. Zartman, University of Notre Dame WASHINGTON --A new technique that makes blood clots optically clear is allowing researchers to use powerful optical...
Annapolis, MD; July 17, 2017--With the right combination of methods, landscape managers can strike an effective balance between pest management and protecting pollinators in turfgrass...
Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Hairless dog breeds differ from other dogs not only by lacking a coat, but also in the number and nature...
A new study of young persons at clinical high-risk of developing psychosis has identified measures of violence potential that may be useful in predicting both...
University of California San Diego scientists have linked specific wiring in the brain to distinct behavioral symptoms of depression. In a study published in the...
Credit: CNIC Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.) have investigated how different subtypes of essential immune-response cells called CD8+ T...
Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with the Korean Genomics Industrialization and Commercialization Center (KOGIC) at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology...
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Many patients with melanoma need a sentinel-lymph-node biopsy to determine if cancer cells have spread there, but a positive finding doesn't...
Researchers in the UK have used DNA sequencing to examine bacteria in post-mortem brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease. Their findings suggest increased bacterial populations...
Genome therapy with beneficial natural mutation could lead to new treatment for life-threatening blood disorders By introducing a beneficial natural mutation into blood cells using...
Credit: David White, Mumm Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report evidence that zebrafishes' natural ability to regenerate their...
The key to produce better crops to meet the needs of the growing world's population may lie in combining the traditional knowledge of subsistence farmers...
Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Parents may be up to speed...
