Topic: Biology
Physical exercise can reduce a genetic predisposition to obesity by an average of 40 percent, a new study showed on Tuesday. The research...
Experts are set to testify in a federal lawsuit in Chicago, where five states are asking a judge to close Illinois shipping locks to prevent ...
Nova International has today announced that the British Gas Great North Swim , which was originally due to be staged at Lake Windermere on the 4...
WASHINGTON. The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the first genetically modified animal for human consumption, a highly...
COCKROACH brains may be a source of new antibiotics capable of killing deadly drug-resistant bacteria, according to research that suggests the...
One of science's saving graces is that a fair number of scientists will publicly admit that they are wrong (and then there's Marc Hauser*...). Last...
Researchers at Caltech have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. The process -- developed by Niles Pierce, associate...
The first entire genome of an Irish individual has been sequenced. The sequence is reported in BioMed Central's open-access journal, Genome...
An appearance by television host Bill Nye will highlight grand opening activities for the new Terre Haute Children's Museum.. The museum says the ...
A researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, together with Israeli and foreign collaborators, has revealed how physical qualities -- and not...