Month: August 2012

A freshwater snail declared extinct in 2000 was recently rediscovered in the Cahaba River by…

What mechanisms control the generation and maintenance of biological diversity on the planet? It’s a…

Just one week of speech therapy may reorganize the brain, helping to reduce stuttering, according…

A bonus payment to teachers can improve student academic performance — but only when it…

A new study of the genetic makeup, or genome, of Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer…

Innovative problem solving requires trying many different solutions. That’s true for humans, and now Michigan…

DNA holds the genetic code for all sorts of biological molecules and traits. But researchers…

A fine-tuned combination of two existing pharmaceutical drugs has shown promise as a potential new…

Researchers have successfully tested in monkeys a vaccine against Nipah virus, a human pathogen that…

Chronic exposure to even small amounts of staph bacteria could be a risk factor for…