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Credit: OmniActive Morristown, N.J., Aug. 30, 2017 - In the recent CARBS (an acronym for Carbohydrate, Appetite Reduction, Blood Sugar and Satiety) study, researchers at...

Often when we make a decision, we calculate its "expected value," by multiplying the value of something (how much we want or need it) with...

Whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology, or whole-cell recording (WCR), is the gold-standard technique for studying the behaviour of brain cells called neurons under different brain states...

Credit: Wildlife Habitat Effectiveness and Connectivity, 2014 EDMONTON (Wednesday, August 30, 2017)--Wolves do not avoid areas of human disturbance when hunting moose in Alberta's oil...

Credit: Mark Auliya, UFZ Trading in skins of the reticulated python is such a lucrative business that illegal exports are rising sharply and existing trade...

Credit: Glen Hartman URBANA, Ill. - Although Midwestern soybean growers have yet to experience the brunt of soybean rust, growers in the southern United States...

Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how mitochondria - the "powerhouses" of human cells - are made. Mitochondria, which exist...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Metabolically healthy obese adults consuming a diet high in unsaturated fat and low in saturated fat...

Credit: HZDR / F. Bierstedt Modern parallel computer architectures are capable of processing huge amounts of data at high speed. This allows for the increasing...

There are many ways a gene can be altered and there are many genes that, when altered, can cause cancer. Testing individually for each possible...

The ITERAMS project "Integrated Mineral Technologies for More Sustainable Raw Material Supply" funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme is reinventing water and waste...

Credit: (Video credit: Hebrew University) Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created a nanophotonic chip system using lasers and bacteria to observe fluorescence...

An estimated 1 million people in the UK carry a human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) genome integrated into their own human genome The integrated HHV-6 genome...

Credit: Photo: VTT Together with a large industrial consortium, VTT Technical Research of Finland has launched a EUR 4.5 million project to speed up the...

Heidelberg, 30 August 2017 - A gene called triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2, or TREM2, has been associated with numerous neurodegenerative diseases, such...