Life Sciences

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

Integration Hypothesis: Humans Learned Speech From Other Primates And Songs From Birds

capacity To be sure, the researchers acknowledge, their hypothesis is a work in progress. After all ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2014 - 7:29pm

One Shot Could Reduce Heart Attacks By Up To 90 Percent

majority of the PCSK9 gene copies in all of the liver cells were disrupted, knocked out. And what we hoped ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2014 - 8:50am

Acquired Inheritance? Effects Of Starvation Can Be Passed To Future Generations

in 1801... he first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all changes ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 8:33am

African Rice Sequenced: A Genome To Feed The World

pathogens," Wing explained. One example, he said, would be adding disease resistance genes from all of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 5:58pm

Heads Up: New Technique Allows Population Scale Genetic Engineering

forum piece in Science, all open access. ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Aug 11 2014 - 9:02am

Cytoplasm: Inside The Cell, An Ocean Of Fluctuating Waves

all, under a microscope, the jerky movements of such particles do resemble thermal diffusion. Relying ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 12:38pm

Bats Bolster Temporal Binding Hypothesis In Brain Science

neurons in the brain attuned to object features all respond in synchrony, as if shouting in unison ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 10:30am

Lizards Help Us Find Out Which Came First: The Baby Or The Egg?

provides all of the nutrients embryos receive before birth, just like most mammals. Some species have ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 20 2014 - 8:00am