CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (January 29, 2014) – In higher animals, an embryo's protein production immediately after fertilization relies on messenger RNAs (mRNAs) ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a de facto antibiotic "smart bomb" that can identify specific strains of bacteria and sever their DNA, eliminating the infection. ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- As computers become common in medical examination rooms across the United States, a new study explores the role this technology plays in the doctor-patient relationship. ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Indonesia is a fast-rising economic power that has made significant progress toward key development goals including reducing child mortality. But for reasons outlined in a National ...

This news release is available in German. Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease ...

HUNTSVILLE, TX (1/30/14) -- With high rates of sexual assault at colleges and universities, campus law enforcement officers are important facets of a campus' response to this crime. The Crime Victims' Institute at ...

As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount ...

For the first time ever, a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly ...

The prevalence of non-alcohol drugs detected in fatally injured ...

(Lebanon, NH, 1/30/14) —Dartmouth researchers developed a new biological pathway-based computational model, called the Pathway-based Human Phenotype Network (PHPN), ...

HOUSTON — When comparing treatments designed to enable long-term breast preservation for older ...

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Dylan and captured both visible and infrared imagery of the storm as it began landfalling. The visible image showed the extent of the storm, ...

TORONTO, ON, January 30, 2014 – Women with a severe mental health-related disability are nearly four times more likely to have been a victim of intimate partner violence ...

BOSTON, January 30, 2014—It may be possible one day to treat several lung diseases by introducing proteins that direct lung stem cells to grow the specific cell types ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- University of Oregon biologists say they have opened the window on the natural ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and in Lithuania have used a NIST-developed laboratory model of a simplified cell membrane ...

CINCINNATI - Researchers have developed a tool that allows caregivers to quickly and accurately predict the risk of death in children with septic shock – a systemic ...

If you're afraid of snakes, you're really not going to like the next bit: some snakes can fly. It sounds like a frightful nightmare, but for Jake Socha, the discovery was the start of a fascinating odyssey to learn ...

A recent study by researchers from Emory's Rollins School of Public Health suggests that development of new childhood obesity cases, or incidence, is largely established by kindergarten. The study ...

Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly – by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other ...

A number of floating ice shelves in Antarctica are at risk of disappearing entirely in the next 200 years, as global warming reduces their snow cover. Their ...

New research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that medication used to treat ADHD in adult men can save lives on the road. According to a large registry study, which is now being published in the scientific journal JAMA ...

Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer, ...

Having a slow reaction time in midlife increases risk of having died 15 years later, according to new research published in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers from UCL and the University of Edinburgh looked at data ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the ...