Life Sciences

Melanocortin Discovery May Lead To New Eating Disorder Treatments

energy balance and regulates how much we eat and how much energy the body uses. The result of all of this ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2008 - 10:21am

Still No Genetic Link To Longevity

a nephew aged 85, all of them born and still living in a small town of the island of Menorca. The ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2008 - 8:20pm

10 New Genes Related To Body Size Identified

the Harvard University, Cambridge. All investigators are part of the recently formed international ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2008 - 12:10am

Induced Pluripotent Stem (IPS) Cells Might Boost Embryonic Stem Cell Research

genetically identical IPS cells, because all cells in the mouse contain the same number of viral integrations ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 4:23pm

Koalas Are One Step Closer To Being STD Free

infections. If all goes well with this trial our future studies will evaluate the vaccine on sick and injured ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2008 - 12:36pm

Insulin-Producing Cells In Pancreas Can Regenerate, Says Study

dedifferentiation of all the different cells that make up the islets of Langerhans is a totally new finding," ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2008 - 1:22pm

Gene Expression In Suicides

normally involved in regulating the essential characteristics of all cells in the body. As Poulter ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2008 - 5:35pm

Is Obesity Determined By Age 2?

a suburban pediatric practice. All of the children had their height and weight measured at least five times ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2008 - 6:32pm

Schizophrenic? Blame Evolution

"Our brains are unique among all species in their enormous metabolic demand. If we can explain how our ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2008 - 6:58pm

And the junk DNA train rolls on...

National Science Academy Section B- Biological Sciences 77 (Sp. Iss.): 43-50. All eukaryotic genomes ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Oct 22 2008 - 11:08pm