Dopamine, a powerful brain chemical and neurotransmitter, is a key regulator of many important functions such as attention, experiencing pleasure and reward, and coordinating movement. The brain ...

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have scoured thousands of genes in the C. elegans worm and have come up with hundreds of promising candidates that may determine ...

Backyard Farmer helps you identify worms & choose herbicide for warm & cool season turf. Backyard Farmer helps you identify worms and answers the question of which herbicide is better for my warm or ...

Often, patients from the same family and carriers of the same genetic mutation, develop a disease differently. This disparity may be due to the existence of mutations in other secondary genes, which ...

Earthworms are important allies in creating a soil ecosystem that is conducive to growing flowers, vegetables, turf, shrubs, trees or any type of plant. Deep-dwelling earthworms such as common night ...

The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, or nerve cells, woven together by an estimated 100 trillion connections, or synapses. Each cell has a role that helps us to move muscles, ...

Learn how to eradicate jumping worms, what to look for to identify them, and where you might find them hitching a ride. You may have heard of lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean and Burmese pythons in the ...

The keys to extending life are in the details. Tiny tails at the ends of chromosomes called telomeres erode with age but can be lengthened. Deep inside our cells DNA-based clocks slowly tick away and ...

Q: This last week I received numerous e-mails with the Sober virus attachment and didn’t open any of the attachments. But a couple of them were addressed from my employer. How do they get this info? — ...

If you've been to the iconic "Spoonbridge and Cherry" sculpture at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, you've also been less than a mile away from ground zero of a jumping worm's invasion of Minnesota.