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First attempt to discover how genetic and environmental factors affect the human epigenome.

Study gives researchers important clues to the genetic causes of particular kind of breast cancer.

Study provides new metric for comparing the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide.

Drug Shortages Prevention Plan for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.

Most of the time, we learn only gradually, incrementally building connections between actions or events and outcomes. But there are exceptions--every once in a while, something happens and we immediately learn to associate that stimulus with a result.

Scientists have bioengineered, in neurons cultured from rats, an enhancement to a cutting edge technology that provides instant control over brain circuit activity with a flash of light. The research funded by the National Institutes of Health adds the same level of control over turning neurons off that, until now, had been limited to turning them on.

Each year, approximately 2 million traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur in the USA, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number includes troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, for whom TBI is considered an invisible wound of war, one that has few successful treatments.

Evonik, part of an investors’ consortium that is investing more than US$3 million in Series A financing round, is investing in the startup.

The new variety has some resistance against the alfalfa snout beetle which has ravaged alfalfa fields.

Gustavo has previously worked worked closely with the company to evaluate strategic opportunities in life science research.