14-07-10 Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, reports a new study by Cornell University neuroscientist Adam An...

14-07-04 Boston researchers have identified a way to enhance regrowth of human corneal（角膜的） tissue to restore vision, using a molecule known as ABCB5 that acts as a marker for hard-to-find limbal stem cells. This work, a collaboration between the Massac...

14-06-25 Smartphones are everywhere, and they may be smarter than you think. Our cell phones actually reflect the personal microbial world of their owners, with potential implications for their use as bacterial and environmental sensors, according to new res...

14-06-24 An international team, composed of 11 institutions from six countries, including BGI, presented the whole-genome sequence of Trichuris suis, a parasitic worm in pig. Understanding the genetics mechanisms underlying the pig parasite may aid to modify...

14-05-29 Striving for the protein equivalent of the Human Genome Project, an international team of researchers has created an initial catalog of the human proteome（蛋白质组） , or all of the proteins in the human body. In total, using 30 different human tis...

14-05-08 The power of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to detect genetic influences on human disease can be substantially increased using a statistical testing framework reported in the May issue of the journal GENETICS. Despite the proliferation of GW...

14-04-20 When you're feeling one of those combination emotions, like sadly angry or happily disgusted, it shows on your face in a unique way, a new study shows. 研究显示，当人们感受到上述复合情感时，例如悲愤或者又开心又讨厌，这些情感就会以一种特别的方式呈现...

14-04-04 Speech by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China At UNESCO Headquarters Your Excellency Madame Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends, Good morning. It gives me great pleasure to have an opp...

14-04-04 If your dog looks pleased to see you it is probably because it loves the particular way you smell. 如果你的狗一见到你就显得很开心的话，有可能是因为它喜欢你散发出的独特气味。 The odour of a familiar human apparently lingers like perfume in the animal...

14-04-02 Conventional wisdom and scientific arguments have claimed that societies with more men than women, such as China, will become more violent, but a University of California, Davis, study has found that a male-biased sex ratio does not lead to more cri...