PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-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: Nicholas Vasi nvasi@illinois.edu Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Genomics for judges: Educating Illinois judges on how genetic info impacts court decisions New seminar prepares judges to deal with legal questions involving DNA sequencing, analysis, and related technologies in the courts today ...

The response of a patient with metastatic brain tumors to treatment with stereotactic radiosurgery in the first six-to-twelve weeks can indicate whether follow-up treatments ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny ...

Rice University scientists have created a way to interpret interactions among pairs of task-oriented proteins that relay signals. The goal is to learn how the proteins ...

Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives, according to Penn State and University of Florida researchers. The team also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone ...

New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Building on previous evidence showing that religious belief involves cognitive activity that can be mapped to specific brain regions, a new study has ...

WHAT: Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the ...

Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to re-use discarded plastic bags and other products. They ...

Researchers find changes to protein SirT1 can prevent excess metabolic stress associated with obesity, diabetes and aging. Studies ...

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CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Every time you open your eyes, visual information flows into your brain, which interprets what you're seeing. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have noninvasively mapped this flow of information ...

An estimated 25.8 million Americans have diabetes. Another 79 million are thought to have "prediabetes," meaning they are at ...

A new study led by Professor Bert De Smedt (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven) ...

New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Drugs comprised of single strands of DNA, called aptamers, can bind to targets inside tumor cells causing cell death. But these DNA ...

An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe. Young massive ...

Baltimore, Md. (January 27, 2014) – Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute recently announced study findings showing ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (January 27, 2014) – A staged approach to epilepsy surgery—with invasive brain monitoring ...

MANKATO, Minn. — Jan. 27, 2014 — For patients who have experienced a large stroke that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A lot of evidence shows that a patients' race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – One of the few studies of its type has found that a startling 59 percent of college students at one Oregon university were "food insecure" at ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility. Graphene has been heralded ...

Researchers at Cardiff University are developing a novel compound known to reverse the spread of malignant breast cancer ...

La Braña 1, name used to baptize a 7,000 years ...

University researchers from two continents ...

The tropical carbon cycle has become ...