All Stories by John Travis
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It smells yellow to me
The colors associated with a smell can influence the brain's perception of the odor.
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Babies babble in just the right way
Infants babble out of the right side of their mouths, suggesting that the infantile sounds are more than noise.
- Health & Medicine
Fragile X protein reveals its RNA partners
The master gene behind fragile X syndrome—the most common inherited form of mental retardation—encodes a protein that binds to strands of messenger RNA.
- Health & Medicine
Genomes of dangerous bacteria exposed
Researchers unveiled the genomes of bacteria that cause severe food poisoning, typhoid fever, and the plague that devastated the Middle Ages.
- Health & Medicine
Cancer drugs may thwart Huntington’s
Drugs developed to fight cancer could also be effective against Huntington's disease and several related neurodegenerative conditions.
- Health & Medicine
Cholesterol enables nerve cells to connect
Neurons form connections with each other using cholesterol supplied by other brain cells called glia.
- Health & Medicine
The Science of Secretin
The discovery that a gut hormone also exists in the brain may shed light on the origins of autism.
- Health & Medicine
Human sweat packs a germ-killing punch
Sweat glands secrete a microbe-killing protein.
- Health & Medicine
Puffer Fish Genomes Swim into View
The tightly packed genomes of two puffer fish species have been deciphered.
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Gene influences density of the skeleton
The mutated gene responsible for a rare bone disorder has been found.
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Gene defect leads to warts and more
Scientists have found the gene for an immunodeficiency syndrome.
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DNA hints at origin of all language
A genetic study of African tribes suggests early language contained clicking sounds.
