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OYSTER BAY, N.Y. a ' Less than a week from now, millions of us will be thronging airports and gingerly pulling onto crowded highways, bound for different places, but most of us headed home.

People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour.

A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

In a massive survey of genetic diversity in maize, also known as corn, researchers across the United States, have developed a gene map that should pave the way to significant improvements in a plant that is a major source of food, fuel, animal feed and fiber around the world.

Drinking green tea can help prevent the formation of large kidney stones, report Chinese scientists in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm .

Scientists at the University of York have discovered how certain bacteria such as Escherichia coli have evolved to capture rare sugars from their environment giving them an evolutionary advantage in naturally competitive environments like the human gut.

Mike Weipert of Oyster Bay recognized the Oct. 23 mystery picture as being taken at the car show on Tuesday nights.

U.S. scientists say they've detailed the molecular structure of a key part of a cellular receptor involved in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases.

U.S. scientists say they might have found a way to stop the growth of certain aggressive tumors for which there are currently no treatments.

Oncologists have had their hands tied because more than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53.

ScienceDaily a ' A chemical cousin of the common antibiotic tetracycline might be useful in treating spinal muscular atrophy , a currently incurable disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in infants.

Phil Rugile is trying to break a traditional publishing model so it wona t break him.

Sheriff Vincent DeMarco Bolstered by a deal that gave them endorsements from multiple political parties, Suffolk County's district attorney, sheriff and treasurer ran without opposition and were re-elected Tuesday.

A chemical cousin of the common antibiotic tetracycline might be useful in treating spinal muscular atrophy , a currently incurable disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in infants.

The introduction of high-throughput laboratory methods has greatly increased the pace of research into the genetics of complex diseases.

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Genetics ; Cancer / Oncology ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 29 Oct 2009 - 5:00 PDT Metastases are responsible for over 90% of cancer deaths.

A research team has found a mutation on human chromosome 16 increases risk for schizophrenia by more than eight-fold for some individuals.

Modern humans and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to a leading geneticist who is overseeing a project to compare their genomes.

A leading geneticist has determined that modern man and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to the Times Online .

An international team of researchers led by geneticist Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , has identified a mutation on human chromosome 16 that substantially increases risk for schizophrenia.