Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans are associated with genes affecting type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease, lupus, biliary cirrhosis and smoking behavior. They also concentrate in genes that influence skin and hair characteristics. ...

The location, connectedness, and human use patterns in a building may influence the types of bacteria they house, according to a study ...

Changes in average climatic conditions combined with the increasing frequency of unpredictable, extreme weather events may disrupt scientific predictions of ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- The Lillis Business Complex set the bar for sustainable buildings 10 years ago when ...

Preliminary results of a small clinical trial show that a vaccine used to treat women with high-grade precancerous cervical lesions triggers an immune cell response within the damaged tissue itself. ...

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a potential new treatment for a rare blood cancer that may also point the way to treating other more common diseases. Paroxysmal nocturnal ...

A new study highlights surprising differences between Herdwick sheep and their closest neighbouring UK upland breeds. The research, led by The Sheep Trust, a national charity based at the University of York, is ...

Sponges are unique beings: they are invertebrates that live in symbiosis with sometimes hundreds of different types of bacteria; similar to lichens which are a biocoenosis of algae and fungi. "Put simply, many ...

CHAPEL HILL, NC – While ultrasound ...

A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome ...

Expansion in the use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) – the minimally ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated ...

More than thirty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens migrating out of Africa began encountering Neanderthals, a lineage that had diverged from modern humans hundreds of thousands ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 29-Jan-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Rob Gutro robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center TRMM satellite peers at rainfall in developing low near Mozambique VIDEO: The TRMM satellite flew above a tropical low (91S) in the Mozambique Channel on Jan. 28, 2014, ...

The NASA-NOAA Satellite known as Suomi NPP flew over newborn Tropical Cyclone 11P in the Coral Sea and captured a visible image of the newly developed storm as it moves toward a landfall in Queensland, ...

As North American bats face a death toll approaching 7 million, University of Akron scientists reveal new clues about their killer, White Nose Syndrome, ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that valproic acid, a widely prescribed drug for treating epilepsy, has the additional benefits of reducing ...

(NEW YORK, NY, January 29, 2014) – Economic and health system reforms in China in recent decades ...

Does giving a speech in public stress you out? Or writing a big presentation for your boss? What about skydiving? One ...

Scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, and the U.S. Forest Service present their findings of the effectiveness of different Asian carp prevention barriers ...

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, January ...

A central question has been answered regarding a protein that plays an essential role in the bacterial immune system and is ...

Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unchanged ...

In the Earth Surface Dynamics Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the behavior of rivers is modeled through the use of artificial rivers—flumes—through ...

Fairfax, Va., January 29, 2014— Long-term (five-year) outcomes of breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) after ...