Dutch men and Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, according to the largest ever study of height around the world.
The research, led by scientists from Imperial College London and using data from most countries in the world,...
Telomerase, an enzyme naturally found in the human organism, is the closest of all known substances to a "cellular elixir of youth." In a recent study, Brazilian and US researchers show that sex hormones can stimulate production of this...
A new study identified 81 children seen at the hospital, and 163 marijuana exposure calls to a Colorado regional poison center (RPC). The median age of children who visited the hospital was 2.4 years and 2 years for children...
Illustration showing size comparison of Australian marsupials including new extinct species of carnivorous marsupial, Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum, from New Riversleigh fossil site in Queensland.Credit: Illustration: Karen Black/UNSW
A new species of extinct flesh-eating marsupial that terrorised Australia's drying forests about 5...
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to selectively sequence fragments of DNA in real time, greatly reducing the time needed to analyse biological samples.
A paper published today in the...
This is a schematic of the RNA-binding region of Rbfox2, shown in grey, attached to part of its natural RNA target, depicted in orange, green, blue and red.
Credit: Yu Chen, Fan Yang, Gabriele Varani
Over a century of research has...
An artist's rendition of bacteria that live in the gut of people and their closest relatives. A new study finds that these microbes have lived -- and evolved -- with us since before we were human.Credit: The University of...
The world around is complex and changing constantly. To put it in order, we devise categories into which we sort new concepts. To do this we apply different strategies. A team of researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)...
The neural architecture in the auditory cortex - the part of the brain that processes sound - of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical, a new study has found.
The study raises a host of new questions about...
For the first time, researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Leeds have proved that gene variants associated with red hair, pale skin and freckles are linked to a higher number of genetic mutations in skin...
Researcher Anders fridberger in his lab. Credit: Image courtesy of Linköping Universitet
Researchers have found that the parts of the inner ear that process sounds such as speech and music seem to work differently than other parts of the inner ear....
