Research confirms that grapefruit juice prolongs the QT interval. This finding has implications for patients taking medications that prolong the QT interval and may have implications for patients with..

A new study set out to settle some of the discrepancies related to brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), employing a large dataset to obtain their findings.

Since the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, humans have been selectively breeding plants with desirable traits such as high grain yield and disease resistance. Over time, Triticum aestiv..

Infrastructure development and other human-made changes have already fragmented or disrupted two-thirds of Earth's longest rivers. Dams and reservoirs are the leading contributors to connectivity..

Researchers have found, analyzing data from the Gaia satellite, that a strong star formation burst occurred in the Milky Way about 2 to 3 billion years ago. In this process, more than 50 percent of th..

Close genetic analysis of 480 blue mallee eucalyptus plants provides clues to modify cultivars for greater yield, whether for essential oils or jet fuel.

Researchers have succeeded in creating a 'protein cage' — a nanoscale structure that could be used to deliver drugs to specific places of the body — that can be readily assembled and disas..

Caregivers need only 'get it right' 50 percent of the time when responding to babies' need for attachment to have a positive impact on a baby, new research finds.

For over 100 years, scientists have sought to understand what links a person's general intelligence, health and aging. In a new study, a scientist suggests a model where mitochondria, or small en..

Researchers used single-cell sequencing to identify a protein expressed uniquely by insulin-producing beta cells created from stem cells in the laboratory. By targeting the protein and adding a physic..