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How does that happen? A common view is that genes duplicate, with one of the copies picking up a new function while the other copy continues to function as before.

Led by Marcelo Guzman, an associate professor of chemistry in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, and Ruixin Zhou, a doctoral student working with Guzman, the researchers used a

“There is good cause for hope that in the next several years much more will be known about how to prevent cognitive decline and dementia, as more clinical trial results

A main goal of rehabilitation strategies in humans with SCI is to strengthen transmission in spared neural networks. Although neuromodulatory strategies have targeted different sites within the central nervous system

“Meeting this patient at Texas Children’s Hospital inspired me to begin a research investigation to learn more about this disorder,” said first and corresponding author Dr. Michael Wangler, assistant professor

A study by Natalie Dawson, research professor in UM’s Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences and director of UM’s Wilderness Institute, suggests that the forests of northwest North America may

The answer to that question may help explain how birds evolved and solve an old mystery in natural history. An international team of scientists led by researchers at Harvard and

Described in a pair of new papers in Science and Physical Review Letters, the potential applications include chip-based temperature sensors for electronics and biology that would never need to be

Wearable devices used to monitor a variety of health and environmental measures are becoming increasingly popular. The performance and efficiency of flexible devices, however, pale in comparison to rigid devices,

This work relied upon high-cadence observations from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, and the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope in La Palma, in the Canary Islands. Together, the spacecraft

The cost of these events is estimated at £750million, with a further £300million bill for wasted medicines which aren’t taken. Internationally, medication related problems are believed to be the fifth

These experimentally determined structures have been deposited into the World-Wide Protein Data Bank, an international archive freely available to the scientific community. The 3-D structures help expedite drug and vaccine

Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces

A team led by Chris Wilmers, associate professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, produced an unprecedented picture of this carnivore’s predatory and reproductive behaviors by