Imagine a world where we are able to manufacture our own ‘designer baby’, where we could choose its eye colour, [...]
When we hear about genetic variation between people, we think about the hidden language of our genes, encoding everything from [...]
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012 was held in Chicago, USA, directly after the Fourth BHD [...]
Genetic determinism, according to Wikipedia, is the belief that genes, along with environmental conditions, determine morphological and behavioral phenotypes. It [...]
An international collaboration of scientists, including Thomas Blum, associate professor of physics, is reporting in landmark detail the decay process [...]
New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) shows that the brain’s visual perception [...]
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes riddled with defects and impurities on the outside could replace some of the expensive platinum catalysts used [...]
By pairing an intimate knowledge of immune-system function with a deep understanding of statistical physics, a cross-disciplinary team at the [...]
At first glance, it’s hard to see how a common house sparrow and a Tyrannosaurus Rex might have anything in [...]
Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven’t known [...]
UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and [...]
Eons ago, nature solved the problem of converting solar energy to fuels by inventing the process of photosynthesis. Plants convert [...]
Scientists believe they’ve pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants “know” when to flower. Determining [...]
Recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate [...]
Sorry Stephen Hawking, I agree with Jill Tarter. Hostile alien invaders are unlikely–at least not the kind envisioned in SciFi [...]
The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, [...]
People in rural counties who work for themselves may add a boost to local economies, improving income and job growth, [...]
A new study testing the benefits of a virtual exercise partner shows the presence of a moderately more capable cycling [...]
Long before babies understand the story of Goldilocks, they have more than mastered the fairy tale heroine’s method of decision-making. [...]
For 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and [...]
An overgrowth of bacteria in the gut has been definitively linked to Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the results of a [...]
A team of scientists at McMaster has discovered that the drug thioridazine successfully kills cancer stem cells in humans while [...]
There’s nothing like a new pair of eyeglasses to bring fine details into sharp relief. For scientists who study the [...]
Research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre has revealed how experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals. [...]
Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have, for the first time, identified a single gene that simultaneously controls inflammation, accelerated [...]
A new type of male contraceptive could be created thanks to the discovery of a key gene essential for sperm [...]
Getting a shot at the doctor’s office may become less painful in the not-too-distant future. MIT researchers have engineered a [...]
Scientists at ETH Zurich have studied the use of language, finding that words with a positive emotional content are more [...]
NASA’s next flagship mission — the James Webb Space Telescope — will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This [...]
Scientists on NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), have measured the orbit [...]
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