Month: May 2012

A study of mothers and their toddlers suggests that mothers of overweight toddlers often had…

The deletion of part of a gene that plays a role in the synthesis of…

Female mice from strains with lower IGF1 levels reach sexual maturity at a significantly later…

A new study finds that fetal exposure to the plastic additive bisphenol A, or BPA,…

New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia…

Biodiversity hot spots — the world’s biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth —…

Declining biodiversity may be contributing to the rise of asthma, allergies, and other chronic inflammatory…

Scientists have amassed evidence implying that commonly occurring large chromosomal deletions seen in many cancer…