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.
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.
Inadequate poultry immunization programs may cause higher mutations rates in the bird flu virus, rendering the vaccine ineffective and increasing the threat of cross-species transmission.
Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.
Deletions or duplications of a certain genomic region implicated in autism can induce autism-like brain and behavior changes in mice.
The Nobel Assembly announced today that three researchers in the field of immunology will share the 2011 Prize in Physiology or Medicine.