Life Sciences

Brain Releases Opiod Painkillers During Social Rejection Too

a social snub isn't "all in our heads" can help some people understand their responses and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2013 - 8:30am

Target Acquired: 'Undruggable' Protein K-Ras Meets Its Match

they had to go after all the Ras mutants," Shokat says. "We looked for what no else had done ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2013 - 9:45am

Thanks, Fish, For The Genetic Blueprints Of Limbs

'bimodal' DNA conformation was exactly what would make all the difference in the genetics for making limbs ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2014 - 3:00am

The Art Of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy

"All of the articles in this issue provide suggestions for therapeutic intervention that have, in the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2014 - 2:39am

Is Kleiber's Law The Geometry Of Evolution?

was there all along, but its significance had been overlooked," said hydrologist Andrea Rinaldo ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 11:57am

Cas9 Enzyme Is A Genome-Editing Tool

that despite significant differences outside of their catalytic domains, all members of the Cas9 family ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2014 - 7:00am

Lactose Culture: Africans' Ability To Digest Milk Linked To Spread Of Cattle Raising

agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers, so the four major subsistence patterns were all covered." The Penn ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2014 - 10:35am

Peanut Genome Initiative Sequence Success

access to 96 percent of all peanut genes in their genomic context, providing the molecular map needed to ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 9:57am

ApoE4 Gene Variant Linked To Higher Risk Of Alzheimer's In Women

risk is not increased much if at all. If it's a woman, my advice will be different." Source: ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2014 - 6:28pm

First Living Organism That Transmits Added Letters In DNA 'Alphabet' Created

"Life on Earth in all its diversity is encoded by only two pairs of DNA bases, A-T and C-G, and what ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 1:16pm