Month: September 2009

Potted plants add aesthetic value to homes and offices, and have been shown to remove…

A new study reveals a key component in the development of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women,…

Sticking with what you know often comes at the price of learning about more favorable…

In today’s frenetic world, many urban dwellers spend more than 80 percent of the day…

A new computational method has proven its usefulness in counting duplicated sequences in human genomes…

Neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine are the cerebral cells that most commonly die-off in…

Scientists have deciphered a key molecular circuit that enables the body to distinguish viruses from…

Using a finding that the genetic complexity of tumors in mice parallels that in humans,…

Measurements of economic growth often fall short for developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and…