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The structure of a key protein that drives DNA copying in the plasmids that make staphylococcus bacteria antibiotic resistant has been identified by scientists. Knowing how this protein works may now help researchers dev...

Humans and corals are about as different from one another as living creatures get, but a new finding reveals that in one important way, they are more similar than anyone ever realized. A biologist has discovered they sha...

Researchers are a step closer to establishing the link between a protein with a split personality and type 1 diabetes. New research shows how a protein, called GAD65, changes its shape when it turns itself on and off. Cu...

Children with heart disease are exposed to low levels of radiation during X-rays, which do not significantly raise their lifetime cancer risk. However, children who undergo repeated complex imaging tests that deliver hig...

The societal scourge of addiction is a case of good evolution gone bad in modern contexts, but scientists are closing in on new biomedical interventions. A group of addiction researchers recommended that the problem of s...

Costs for a lifetime of support for each individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may reach $2.4 million, according to a new study. In the study, the team found that costs for a person with ASD and an intellectual ...

Researchers have found that antiviral therapy may be successful in preventing hepatitis B virus from developing into the most common form of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma. "The results of this study allow us to ...

A submarine on Titan, a greenhouse on the Red Planet, and a space cowboy hitching a ride to Pluto on a comet top NASA's wild wish list

Anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing is helping to save a unique, centuries-old cooperative farming system in Indonesia. Find out what makes him tick.

Imagine you are a 5th grader while watching this video. Would you love it? If it caught your interest, as it did mine, you are in good company. This is the winning entry for the 2014 Flame... --

The cost of supporting a person with autism over a lifetime can be as high as $2.4 million, a new study estimates.

Patent output from the National Institutes of Health is vital to understanding which various areas of science are contributing most to America's innovation economy, according to a new report. Patents are widely-accepted ...

A protein, called Foxp1, is a key controller of our immune system's ability to generate an antibody response, researchers report. Manipulating this protein's activity, they say, could provide a useful pathway to boosting...

A new type of game has been programmed that trained both mice and humans to enhance their ability to discriminate soft sounds in noisy backgrounds. Their findings suggest new therapeutic options for clinical populations ...

Is sleep one of your most important family values? A new study suggests that it should be, reporting that more parental sleep is related to more child sleep, which is related to decreased child obesity. And the effects o...

Stimulating a specific gene could prompt growth - in adults - of new neurons in this critical region, leading to faster learning and better memories, researchers report. Understanding the link between this gene and the g...

Volcanoes under the ice in Antarctica appear to contribute to the melting of glaciers, potentially lubricating the overlying ice and contributing to the glacier's speed of flow.

Our attempts to deodorise urban streets have gone too far, says Victoria Henshaw. There are powerful reasons to reacquaint our noses with city scents (full text available to subscribers)

The first farmers entered Europe from the Middle East by sailing between the idyllic islands of the Aegean Sea 9000 years ago

The latest form of genetic engineering can give human cells a rare mutation that keeps them HIV-free

Snow algae and light-shunning seaweed are some of the weird life forms that may rule on habitable exoplanets, according to criteria from a NASA astrobiologist

The U.S. Navy, in partnership with the Indonesian Navy, is planning to dive to the sunken USS Houston, a World War II-era shipwreck, later this month, according to Navy officials.