Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

"For some people, the first symptom of this is cardiac arrest — they drop dead on the soccer field, the ...

Researchers have discovered a gene that plays a central role in black skin cancer, also known as melanoma. Suppressing this ...

Stem cells that come from a specific part of the developing brain help fuel the growth of brain tumors caused ...

Over the past 18 months, 81-year-old Bill Bunnell has visited the doctor a half-dozen times to take memory tests, provide ...

Covering farm technology means being on the scene with ag biotech too. From the first days of tomatoes that had ...

An experimental gene therapy for HIV may actually be easier—and even safer—than experts originally hoped. Experimenting with zinc finger nucleases ...

Two postings back, I promised a commenter called Sierkovitz that I would discuss epigenetics. This is an important subject with ...

Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) affects 300 infants in Virginia each year. Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed a work group ...

Scientists could take greater strides toward crop improvement if there were wider adoption of advanced techniques used to understand the ...

A biofuel company hopes plots of high-sugar “energy beets” will fuel an ethanol project ...

Jews should no longer be categorized by their ethnic origin when being tested for hereditary conditions, says the Health Ministry ...

When it comes to life or death, genetically modified organisms win out over leaving the environment untouched, and those with ...

Let us first state that this is not an anti-genetically modified organisms article. Given the right biotechnology, at the right ...

Orchardists in Okanaga say they have all the evidence they need to fight the introduction of GM fruit. A national ...

Last week, reports flew through over the internet and the social media universe that cows in Texas were dying from ...

Future genetic therapy could be as simple as applying a topical lotion, with nanoscale compounds soaking through your epidermis to ...

Researchers have identified seven genetic markers linked with a woman's breast size, according to a new study. While it's was ...

Australia's system of organic certification will come under intense scrutiny when two neighbouring farmers do battle in the Western Australian ...

Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...

Scientists have completed the genomic sequence and analyses of a female domestic yak, which provides important insights into understanding mammalian ...

Rayes suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition caused by a heart so weak it can't effectively pump blood through ...

A research team at the University of California, San Diego – led by Gary S. Firestein, professor in the Division ...

SPORTING bakers' hats, aprons and wooden spoons, a coach-load of Totnes residents joined a national protest in Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, against ...

Chinese scientists have genetically modifying dairy cows to produce milk with different properties, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports ...

A consortium of nine research centres has obtained the melon genome, a horticultural specie with high economic value around the ...

Reprogramming asthma-promoting immune cells in mice diminishes airway damage and inflammation, and could potentially lead to new treatments for people ...

To date, few fundamentals have been known about the most common gland in the body, the sweat glands that are ...