Month: March 2022

Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced ...

Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research ...

When scientists declared the Human Genome Project complete two decades ago, their announcement was a tad premature. A milestone achievement ...

Evan Eichler has always been drawn to the most complex regions of humanity’s genome – those with bizarrely long stretches ...

The Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a known risk factor for cervical cancer. Researchers at Arizona State University are hoping to ...

Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it’s doing respiration – using oxygen to ...

Where standard 3D printing uses a digital blueprint to manufacture an object out of materials like plastic or resin, 3D ...

Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east and west Eurasia and has played a historically important ...

PHILADELPHIA – Victoria’s Secret, Pelotonia, and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) today announced the recipients of The Victoria’s ...

More than 50 years ago on the shoreline of a rocky tide pool, the US ecologist Robert Paine found out ...

HOUSTON – (March 31, 2022) – Flashing graphene into existence from waste was merely a good start. Now Rice University ...

Google algorithms place innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists, which mislead the public and amplify extremist views, according to Simon ...

HOUSTON – (March 31, 2022) – An implant little bigger than a grain of rice, put gently in place alongside ...

CHICAGO—March 30, 2022—Beginning during his time at Illinois Institute of Technology while completing a master’s degree in computer science, Jack ...

New Haven, Conn. —  Researchers at the Yale Cardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based model ...

For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature ...

Evolution takes place constantly, everywhere in nature. Nevertheless, it is always exciting for biologists to observe evolution "in real time". ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Psychedelic drugs, like psilocybin, an ingredient found in so-called magic mushrooms, have shown promise in treating a ...

Credit: Joshua Clark/University of Illinois Chicago A team of University of Illinois Chicago researchers is projected to receive approximately $22 ...

The University of Minnesota received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, totalling more than $6.5 million, to research cardiovascular ...