Researchers in Spain have found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people – traditionally called "healers" or "quacks" – actually present the neuropsychological phenomenon known as "synesthesia" (specifically, "emotional synes...

Green fundamentalists stupidly aim to destroy fields of genetically modified wheat. At the end of this month, a group of protestors are planning to descend upon a field in Hertfordshire and, in their words, ‘decontaminate’ (i.e. destroy) a field...

New research proved that resveratrol, a chemical present in red wine, has anti-aging properties. Resveratrol was always thought to have health benefits, but the exact mechanism of that effect was never clearly understood. Understanding how resver...

Scientists have found a new method for producing genetically modified animals. Transgenic animals produced using this method can be used for scientific research and to produce new breeds of domestic animals. The method relies on recently created haploi...

Hong Kong scientists have created a genetically modified sheep that expresses a roundworm fat gene that is also found in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens and helps reduce the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease. According to the scientis...

Protein called cryptochrome is an ancient protein present in every animal species living on Earth including humans. The protein is involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms and in the navigational skills of several species including migratory bir...

Stroke survivors who like art have a significantly higher quality of life than those who do not, according to new research. Patients who appreciated music, painting and theatre recovered better from their stroke than patients who did not. The resea...

Many people take a low dose of aspirin every day to lower their risk of heart attack or stroke because of the effect it has on the clotting action of platelets in the bloodstream. When we bleed, platelets in the blood build up at the site of the wo...

Physicists have built a battery that draws energy from the thermal movement of ions in solution. All particles such as atoms, ions and molecules perpetually and spontaneous move drugging energy from the outside heat. The motion is called Brownian mo...

Administration of a single antibody targeted against CD47 protein caused tumors to shrink or disappear, according to a new study conducted at Stanford University School of Medicine. The study was done using nude mice transplanted with cancerous masses ...

A clothing store located in Barcelona, Spain is equipped with AdvanMirror system enabling customers to view themselves on a video screen as though they were wearing a specific garment of their choice. The images displayed on a flat screen are based on ...

We know little about the molecules that determine the differences in behavior among individuals. Scientists at the University of Illinois have discovered similar genes in human and bees that determine novelty-seeking behavior, which is assumed to have ...

US researchers at Harvard Medical School have managed to isolate stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and used them to make oocytes that appear to behave normally. The discovery published in Nature Medicine clearly shows that a woman's...

The work reported in the recent issue of 'Cell' demonstrated that now it is possible to clone primates. Stem cell research is one of the most rapidly developing areas of biology because it holds the possibility of producing new nerve fibers, skin an...

A new study found that winners - those who outperformed others on a competitive task - acted more aggressively against the people they beat than the losers did against the victors. "It seems that people have a tendency to stomp down on those they h...

10th specialized exhibition Analitika Expo Analytical equipment, control and measuring devices, laboratory furniture, chemical reagents and materials, nanotechnologies, nanomaterials, bioanalytics, diagnostics. April 10-13, 2012 Sokolniki, Moscow,...

A pilot study conducted at University of Colorado has discovered that the quality of dehydrated RNA samples stored at room temperature is comparable to those stored in traditional ultra-low-temperature freezers. The benefits of dry storage include m...

Human beings want to be happy. “It is for the sake of happiness that we do everything else we do”, Aristotle said. But happiness seems to come easier to some than others. Fifty percent of happiness is determined by genes, according to Sonja Lyubo...

Losing ability to remember recent events and form new memories is one of the most dreaded afflictions of the human condition. Scientists from UCLA demonstrated that stimulating a specific area of the brain called entorhinal cortex improves the memory. ...

In a study published in the June 2011 issue of Science, researchers from University of Washington experimented with fruit flies that could be put to sleep on demand. Flies that underwent 4 hours of induced sleep after training formed long-term memories...

Pittcon is the world's largest annual conference and exposition for laboratory science. Pittcon 2012 will offer the latest technology and instrumentation from over 930 exhibitors, a diverse Technical Program of more than 2,000 technical presentations, ...

Stem cells are a class of cells that are able to divide and convert (differentiate) into any specialized cells. Specific proteins and growth factors are required to initiate differentiation of the stem cells into specialized cells. Without these diffe...

There are trillions of neuronal connections, called synapses in the human brain that are dynamic and constantly change in strength and property. This pattern of activity, known as synaptic plasticity, controls people's cognitive functions, and scientis...

Scientists have discovered a surprising link between Alzheimer's disease and mad cow disease. It turns out that both diseases involve common protein called prion. The finding, which appears in the journal Nature, could explain the great mysteries i...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers. It helps to regulate movement and emotional responses and enables people to see rewards and work towards them. Parkinson's disease is caused by dopamine deficien...

Russian scientists excavated squirrel burrows containing fruit and seeds that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 31,800 years. Scientists used soft tissues of Silene stenophylla [1] fruit to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experim...

miRNAs are post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression that bind to complementary sequences on target messenger RNA transcripts (mRNAs) present inside the cell, usually resulting in translational repression or target degradation and gene silenci...

Lake Vostok (Russian: Lake East) is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. The lake is located approximately 500 meters below the see level and is covered with 4000 meters of ice. The lake is similar in siz...

Currently, humans are the only primate species that have undergone significant hair involution. Actually, on average, humans still have as many hair follicles in the skin as any other tropical mammal of similar size. Human hairs simply became greatly r...

Genomic DNA is constantly mutating as the result of constant flow of DNA damaging agents that are produced in our bodies as well as in the environment. These agents include free radicals, mutagenic chemicals, ionizing radiation, microwaves and UV light...

To anyone who accepts Darwin’s theory of natural selection, evolution of sexual reproduction is one of the most puzzling issues. Faster evolution through increasing diversity of genotypes is the obvious long-term advantage of sexual reproduction, but...

Collaborate with 5,000+ innovative scientists, engineers, researchers and technologists from academic, government and commercial laboratories around the globe to inaugurate the First Annual SLAS Conference and Exhibition — uniting the best of the for...

Reproductive strategies of males and females are different, which creates a conflict of interest between the sexes. Reproductive success of a male is generally proportional to his ability to mate with the maximum number of females and spreading as man...

Even though Charles Darvin titled his famous book 'The Origin of Species', he considered the mechanism of new species' origin a great mystery. Even now, one of the greatest mysteries of biology is how two groups of animals become genetically incompatib...

Objective: Explain the processes involved in cloning and producing transgenic animals Genetic modification Genetic modification is the change of the genes of a living organism such as a plant or animal using modern techniques of biotechnology. DNA...

Stem cells are unique cells that are able to convert into any cell type. Stem cells play a vital role in developing, maintaining and repairing these tissues. There are two main types of stem cells, embryonic stem cells, present in the embryo and adult ...

1. The first lesson of success can be learned from the woodpecker. Yes, the woodpecker! It's called "The lesson of focus". Woodpecker is much smarter than we are. Yes, he beats his head against a tree, but he does it so very successfully. His goal ...

Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced by over 200 species of mushrooms. The effects can include euphoria, visual and mental hallucinations, changes in perception of time, spiritual experiences, as well as adverse reactions ...

1. Anything that moves or produces heat produces energy that is currently wasted and will be collected in the future. This includes the heat generated during walking, jogging, cycling, using your computer and even from water flowing through sewage pipe...

Scientists developed genetically modified silkworms that produce a spider silk protein that incorporates into silk fibers and makes them much stronger than natural silk fibers and as tough as spider web. This approach allows producing spider silk fiber...

Scientists do not stop dreaming about such global projects as finding biological life on other planets or introducing biosphere from the Earth to other planets. Astrobiology is a relatively young field of science that is studying living things within t...

Everyone takes it as a fact that plants start producing leaves in the spring. What was not known is the molecular mechanism of the phenomenon. To establish the genetic relationship between increased temperature and faster growth, scientists from the U....

Australian scientists have found pluripotent stem cells (PSC) in human breast milk. These cells are characterized by a greater similarity to embryonic stem cells (ESC). Until now, nobody could isolate stem cells from the human milk. PSC were first r...

Most people would offer help to a friend in need. Is altruism unique to humans or is it a common trend in other animals? A new study describes altruistic behavior in rats and finds rats empathetic to each other. In the study, rats were allowed to l...

Coffee drinkers insist that a cup or two of hot coffee in the morning wakes them up and kick-starts their day. Is that really true? A recent study done at the University of East London, UK shows that the boost we get from a cup of coffee is all fictio...

Stem cells can be obtained from women's menstrual blood derived from the endometrium. The cells display stem cell markers such as Oct-4, SSEA-4, Nanog, and c-kit (CD117), and have the potent ability to differentiate into various cell types, including t...

What people feel while dying? Do people realize that they are dying? Will be there something unexpected at the moment when our lives come to an end? These questions plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries, but the theme of death continues to ...

Could your date of birth affect the rest of your life? Several studies suggest that there are significant differences between neural abilities of babies born in the summer and winter seasons. A 2006 study conducted in Schizophrenia Research Society ...

The Pentagon recently announced the introduction of artificial blood for the military forces of the U.S. Army. Timely transfusion of blood is often lifesaving in the military. This development is also of a great importance to global health. Given the i...

Scientists described one interesting aspect of social behavior in baboons. Baboons start feeding not at a signal of the most powerful member of their group but rather the friendliest of them. At the end of hard day, we all prefer to relax in a good ...

The origin of life on our planet has always been a subject of controversy for many scientists. Scientists proposed many plausible scenarios explaining natural origin of life. Unfortunately, nobody will know the exact molecular events that led to the em...

Scientists have been able to slow down the aging of stem cells that are responsible for regeneration of damaged tissues. The ability of tissues and organs to regenerate after damage declines with age. According to modern scientific views, the life ...

In 2000, private Clay Mathematics Institute has chosen seven most difficult unresolved mathematical problems and promised to pay one million dollars award to anyone who would solve either of seven "Problems of the Millennium". The first of seven Prizes...

Organ replacement, regenerative surgery and implantation of prosthetic body parts (such as blood vessels, cochlear implant, erection implants, limbs, liver, eye, ear, lungs, pancreas, bladder, ovaries, trachea, bone joints, dental implants, heart valve...

Austrian zoologists from the Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna set up an experiment in which they tested differences in cognitive processes in male and female dogs. Results of experiments clearly show that males and females read ...

Increasing number of reports about possible collision of Earth with a celestial body recently appeared in the press. Astronomers estimate that more than a thousand meteorite trajectories intersect Earth's orbit and pose a real threat to life on the pla...

All living species on Earth, even microscopic viruses compete with each other for space and resources in order to survive and reproduce. Some viruses are exceptionally aggressive in expanding and using resources so that they cease to exist because th...

In order to say a word or a sentence, human brain must first receive either external trigger (such as a sound, taste, smell or visual signal that is recognized by our five organs of sense) or internal trigger such as a thought. Human brain can generate...

Scientists at Utsunomiya University, Japan have found a very interesting mathematical ability in crows. Crows were shown two containers labeled with random symbols that included numbers, letters and abstract symbols. Only the containers marked with 5 ...

Humans can transcend their biological abilities in ways that other animals cannot. What is that unique ability of human beings that makes us humans? Is it our sense of self-awareness? Self-awareness, or sense of self, is the ability to focus attent...

Professionals from a small American biomedical company Medicinal Genomics managed to complete genome sequencing of Cannabis sativa or marijuana. Scientists argue that this is a big step forward in the treatment of various diseases and mental disord...

Scientists from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine discovered a new evidence of dubious intellectual superiority of women over men. According to scientists, all what matters is the female hormone estrogen, which can be called an elixir...

Scientists from the Shanghai University of Neuroscience discovered a gene GluR4 that increases the interactions between neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex and multiplies electric signals created in the area. It appears that the expression level of...

Experts from University of Calgary (University of Calgary) have found that brain of male mice who intermingled with their children changes. New neurons in the areas responsible for the sense of smell and memory grow and help them to remember their chil...

About 3 thousand teenagers were tested during the experiments conducted in 2005 and 2007 that were aimed at establishing a relationship between the diets and the psychic abilities of young people. The studies showed that the quality of food has a great...

According to certain scientists from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (UK), the human embryo cannot perceive pain until 24 weeks of age. Most neurologists believe that the functionality of the cortex is necessary for perception o...

Scientists from the University of California, found a “gene of optimism”. They claim that human ability to handle stress correlates with the level of expression of oxytocin receptor. Oxytocin is best known for its roles in female reproduction. ...

Behavior affects the operation of genes during lifetime of an organism. This theme is developed in detail by E. Robinson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the article published in Gene. The paper examines the relationship between g...

EGR-1 - is not the only gene which work in the brain is determined by social stimuli. It is already clear that the nuances of social life affect the work of hundreds of genes and may lead to activation of the complex and multi-level "gene networks". ...

A placebo is a simulated medical intervention used as a negative control during medical trials and experiments. Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment have a perceived or even actual measurable improvement in a medical condition. The phenomenon i...

The human brain is tuned to recognize animals in the surrounding much better then other objects. This was the conclusion of a group of scientists made on the basis of the direct scanning of brain activity. The work was published in the journal Natur...

The researchers used computer simulations of Earth's atmosphere in order to predict how far virtual germs would travel from the southern part of North America and Mexico. It should be noted that these atmospheric models have been developed to study the...

Robert Ettinger died at the age of 92 years old. He was a founder of the Cryonics Institute. His body will be stored in a low temperature freezer indefinitely in hopes of being resurrected one day. The objective of cryonics movement initiated by Etting...

The poet, who took courses of molecular biology and programming encoded his own poems in the genome of bacterium Escherichia coli. The genomes of living things are composed of DNA - a special polymer that is composed of four types of monomers called...

Several independent research groups from USA set a goal to recreate living dinosaurs. According to one of the scientists from University of Montana, Jack Horner, if the project is successful, they would be able to create a chicken with scales, arms, ta...

Museums of Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and France installed RFID tags that detect motion, change of temperature, humidity and immediately alert staff if masterpieces are at risk of being stolen or damaged. Museums spend significant part of their re...

Normally, hamsters hide and run away if they feel danger. Unlike other hamsters, African hairy hamsters living in South Africa do not escape and do not hide from enemies. Instead, they just turn sideways and bend their backs displaying black and white ...

Currently, physicians in the hospitals control vital functions of the patients using a number of balky sensors attached to the skin with sticky hard-to-remove gel. Experts from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have developed a new type of...

A handful of people on the planet do not have fingerprints. Recently geneticists have been able to determine which genetic mutation causes this phenomenon. Fingerprints in human embryos are formed by about 4 to 5 months of normal pregnancy. Each per...

Using methods of genetic engineering, researchers from the Graduate School of experimental biotechnology at Osaka University developed mice that can produce sounds similar to a bird singing. The result has been achieved by chance. The scientists were o...

Production of sperm cells in laboratory settings has been a dream of many scientists. Numerous attempts failed because of lack of knowledge about specific growth factors that are essential for maturation of sperm precursor cells into functional sperm c...

British scientists have created and grown animal-human hybrid embryos in order to get drugs to treat incurable diseases. These experiments in the past three years were conducted in secret. As a result, over 150 animal embryos were created that have mix...

Scientists of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) repeated one of the greatest biological experiments of ancient humans - domestication of wild animals. They tamed foxes. According to Oleg Trapezov, Ph.D., from Institute...

Scientists from Duke University developed a technique to convert umbilical cord stem cells into oligodendrocytes, cells of neural system that not only conduct electric signals but also provide nutrition to surrounding nerve cells. The possibility of pr...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard eliminated one of the genetic code triplets of bacteria Escherichia coli - that is, have changed the genetic dictionary of a living organism. Scien...

Researches from Oxford University in Great Britain found a correlation between the height and the risk of getting cancer. Women of small stature seem to have cancer less frequently then tall women. The study involved 1,397,124 women and lasted for 5 ye...

nternational team of scientists from Russia, Japan, Canada and USA conceived ambitious project - to resurrect the mammoth! A team led by Akira Iritani of Kyoto University announced its intention to clone the ancient animal. They plan to use cell nu...

Aubrey de Grey is a well-known gerontologist and scientific director of the SENSE fund dealing with the problems of aging. According to Dr. de Grey, the first person who will live to the age of 150 years has been born already, and those who will live u...

The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center has installed a new interactive exhibit, named “Fish and Chips”, that uses RFID technology to instantly provide visitors with information on the aquatic life as it swims by, according to Breaking News T...

By the year 2035 the worlds population will double if it continues to grow at its present rate. How will 11.2 billion people will be able to get enough food? Resources in newly developed countries are already strained and populations are rapidly increa...

Japanese geneticists have found that the ancient people crossed different strains of rice in order to create a better version of the culture ten thousand years ago. Despite the fact that the cavemen had no idea about the genes, they were able to create...