Life Sciences

Sleep Deprivation And The Brain's Emotional 'Disconnect'

almost all psychiatric disorders. These findings may offer new mechanisms as to why, and provide novel ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2010 - 11:12am

Ciliopathies And Sense Of Touch

a tuning fork on their wrist or guessing the weight and shape of an object just by feeling it. All nine ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2007 - 4:57pm

Beta-Defensin Gene Impacts Stress, Weight In Humans... And Fur Color In Dogs

wouldn't guess it looking at an Irish setter, all coat colors are modifications of black and yellow. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2007 - 4:24pm

Synthetic Evolution: Researchers Simulate Photosynthesis And Design A Better Leaf

photosynthetic process ‘in silico,’ we can test all possible permutations on the supercomputer,” he said. The ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2007 - 9:27pm

Horizontal Gene Transfer And How Genetic Modularity Begets Complexity

intelligent design or the anthropic principle." The information that allows all living things to survive ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2007 - 3:15pm

Does Our Genome Oscillate?

it to regulate all the genes in the organism,” says Woelfle. Some cyanobacteria use their biological ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2007 - 6:30am

MUP Makes Male Mice Aggressive

explore how receptor neurons sift through all of the cues in the environment to detect the relevant cues ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2007 - 4:18pm

"Genderblind" Gene Helps Researchers Turn Fruit Flies Homosexual Behavior On And Off

post-doctoral researcher Yael Grosjean noticed that all the GB mutant male flies were courting other males. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2007 - 4:35pm

Breakthrough: Two Obstacles To Stem Cell Heart Repair Overcome

the basic biological developments. As with all new biomedical applications, an understanding of the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2007 - 6:30pm

Plant Geneticists Find Veritas In Vino: Genome Sequence Of Pinot Noir Grape Revealed

Agrario di San Michele all'Adige, used a shotgun sequencing approach, which has resulted in 10.7X ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2007 - 12:30am