Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.
Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.
A physician doing a residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center was caught copying sections of text and an illustration in multiple NIH-funded papers.
Nicotine may alter the brain’s response to cocaine, supporting the idea that the legal drug may serve as a "gateway" to the use of illegal substances.
Researchers unveil BioNOT, a new app that scours PubMed for studies that report negative findings.
Expecting significant cuts to the federal research budget, scientists are scratching expensive DNA sequencers off their wish lists.
Researchers have pinpointed the region of a key cancer gene that’s involved in tumor suppression.
Last week researchers released the first non-invasive prenatal test for Down syndrome, and more such tests are expected in the coming months.
A bevy of genes known to be active during human fetal and infant development first appeared at the same time that the prefrontal cortex—the area of the brain associated with human intelligence and personality—took shape in primates, a new study publi
Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.