Month: July 2013

Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica’s large ice sheets…

Investigators have used genetics and live cell imaging to illuminate molecular mechanisms that position the…

Painstaking new analysis of the genetic sequence of the X chromosome -— long perceived as…

Most of the time, it takes decades of accumulating genetic errors for a tumor to…

The life-threatening MERS coronavirus that has emerged in the Middle East could spread faster and…

Thanks to a reintroduction program in Arkansas during the 50s and 60s, hundreds of bears…

A protein found in the membranes of ancient microorganisms that live in desert salt flats…

Researchers have identified infection-fighting and inflammation-suppressing functions for a gene associated with human autoimmune disease….

Nighttime heat waves — events where the nighttime low is unusually hot for at least…

A gene related to neural tube defects in dogs has for the first time been…