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Researchers have used the Zhores supercomputer to perform a very precise sensitivity analysis to reveal crucial parameters for different crop yield in the chernozem region.

Scientists have unveiled a correlation between high blood lead levels in children and methylation of genes involved in haem synthesis and carcinogenesis, indicating a previously unknown mechanism for lead poisoning.

Researchers have unlocked a key fundamental mechanism in the communication between brain cells when confronted with stroke. They report that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) not only protected neuronal cells and promoted their survival, but also helped maintain their integrity and stability.

Researchers have now discovered the activation of neurons in the hypothalamus during REM sleep regulates eating behavior: suppressing this activity in mice decreases appetite.

New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new language.

Plants recognize beneficial microbes and keep harmful ones out, which is important for healthy plant production and global food security. Scientists have now discovered how legumes use small, well-defined motifs in receptor proteins to read molecular signals produced by both pathogenic and symbiotic microbes.

As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology, Dan Luoma attended a scientific meeting in 1981 on Orcas Island in Washington. He went out one day of the meeting looking for the prized fungi and found a collection. Almost four decades later, with the help of new scientific technologies, Trappe and several other scientists confirmed that the truffle is unique

Researchers have demonstrated that placebos reduce brain markers of emotional distress even when people know they are taking one.

Rhythms produced by the brain can reliably be used to predict how sensitive we are to pain, new research shows.

When we dream, our brains are filled with noisy electrical activity that looks nearly identical to that of the awake brain. Now, researchers have pulled a signal out of the noise that uniquely defines dreaming, or REM sleep, potentially making it easier to monitor people with sleep disorders, as well as unconscious coma patients or those under anesthesia.