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Credit: OHSU OHSU researcher Sudarshan Anand, Ph.D., has a contemporary analogy to describe microRNA: "I sometimes compare MicroRNA to tweets -- they're short, transient and...

Credit: The Researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Scientists hoping to get a glimpse of molecules that control brain activity have devised a new probe that allows...

University of Texas at Dallas physicists have published new findings examining the electrical properties of materials that could be harnessed for next-generation transistors and electronics....

Credit: Kevin Monko/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (December 1, 2016) - The Monell Center announced today that it has received a $345,000 grant from the Bill &...

Credit: Photo by Ronnie Ranch Hedegaard, courtesy of Electrochaea One of the biggest challenges to wider adoption of wind and solar power is how to...

Credit: (Purdue University / Ximena Yépez) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have developed a hydrogenation process that could solidify soybean oil for food...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Previous studies identified the Hippo pathway kinases LATS1/2 as a tumor suppressor, but new research led by University of California...

Credit: Cell The attachment of ubiquitin was long considered as giving the „kiss of death", labelling superfluous proteins for disposal within a cell. However, by...

Autism spectrum disorders affect around one percent of the world's population and are characterized by a range of difficulties in social interaction and communication. In...

Credit: Furukawa Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - The difference between mental health and mental illness can turn on changes in brain cells and...

(Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena) Drawing on Darwin's theory of evolution, Ernst Haeckel created the first Darwinian phylogenetic 'tree of life' of organisms exactly 150 years ago ..

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 1, 2016) - When a male fruit fly gets aggressive, he rears up on his back four legs...

Credit: Photo by Ray Davis EAST LANSING, Mich. - Barred owls - unrivaled nocturnal predators and procreators - are moving into the Pacific Northwest. They're...

In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognizing speech and images: Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Machine learning is a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection and sorting spam in Google,...