In a new study, scientists identified people based only on their breathing pattern with almost 97 percent accuracy—and soon ...

Harvard cognitive psychologist Daniel Schacter’s work has underpinned a sea change in how we think about memory; namely, that ...

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A study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a molecular mechanism known from bilaterian animals to ...

The official, Jeremy Greenberg, was in charge of coordinating the national response to major disasters. By Lisa Friedman Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme ...

Inhibitors of DNA methylation can reactivate genes that have been silenced. Two examples of these types of drugs are 5-azacytidine and 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine (Egger et al., 2004). These ...