WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering new standards for a fast-growing sector of the food industry: products lacking a protein called gluten.
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HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Israeli scientists say an eighth century shipwreck is believed to be the only ship from that period discovered in the Mediterranean region.
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined how bumblebee colonies maintain fairly stable nest temperatures - and they do it by specializing. By exposing bumblebee nests to a range of temperatures, the University of Washington and the University of Puget Sound resear
PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A French-led team has found DNA preserved in bones undergoing fossilization deteriorates up to 50 times faster when stored in a museum.
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led study shows the origins and earliest branches of primate evolution are more ancient by 10 million years than previously thought.
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests a prehistoric 7-foot-tall "terror bird" arrived in North America from South America about 5 million years ago.
CAMBRIDGE, England, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A British-led team of researchers has found a huge drumlin -- a mound of sediment and rock -- actively forming and growing under the Antarctic ice sheet.
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist reported a breakthrough that could make hydrogen fuel cells practical for such small machines as lawnmowers and chainsaws.
DURBAN, South Africa, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- South African researchers recommended the country force patients suffering from a highly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis into isolation.
PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The heads of the International Space Station partners met at the European Space Agency headquarters in Paris Tuesday to review ISS cooperation.
LIVERMORE, Calif., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. government scientists are developing screening devices that can find hazardous materials even if concealed in clothing or packaging.
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have found cholesterol supplementation prevents fetal alcohol spectrum defects in alcohol-exposed zebra fish embryos. The Duke University Medical Center study by Yin-Xiong Li and colleagues details the mechanism and prevention of
CLEVELAND, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A Cleveland doctor says use of niacin as a cholesterol drug is likely to increase following the failure of a drug that was found to increase heart problems. Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the famed Cleveland Clinic and president of the American Coll
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have devised a hepatitis C virus culture system that might lead to a new understanding of the illness.
PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A French medical team has completed a partial face transplant on a Paris man who was born disfigured, the third such operation in the world.
TORONTO, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers have discovered a dopamine signaling complex in the brain that might lead to a new treatment for schizophrenia.
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have found a transdermal approach is safe and effective in clearing brain plaque in mice bred to develop Alzheimer's disease.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led team of scientists has developed a model that predicts how pandemic influenza might be spread around the world by airline passengers.
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. group is challenging an insurance company's requirement that morbidly obese people be given an IQ test before undergoing weight loss surgery.
BEIJING, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Chinese scientists have found fossil remains of a four-winged dinosaur called a Microraptor, with feathers on both its forelimbs and hind limbs.
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the detection of the presence of an active participant in a situation involves a brain region that's more active in altruistic people.
BERLIN, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- German nanoscientists say they have demonstrated how a molecular "wheel" built at the nanoscale level could revolutionize machinery.
