Life Sciences

Identified- Clockwork That Starts Powerful Virus 'Engines'

all viruses have a motor such as the one found in the T4 virus, but some viruses that cause human ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2008 - 2:04pm

Kawasaki Disease Gets A Genome Wide Association Study

"Sadly, all the hospitals in the UK frequently see children with Kawasaki Disease. A child whose coronary ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2009 - 11:44pm

First Gene Discovered For Most Common Epilepsy

just about the seizures, but also about all the other brain impairments we see, like a delay in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2009 - 10:29pm

Deciphering The Tracks Of Evolution In Our Genomes

This is not to say that biased gene conversion is responsible for all differences- the authors detected ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 31 2009 - 4:22pm

Heavy Marijuana Use May Damage Developing Brain In Teens And Young Adults

imaging studies at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. The 14 subjects from the drug treatment center all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2015 - 2:40pm

Poor Gene Copying And The Evolution Of New Species

not thriving. Plants that have all bad copies of both chromosomes 1 and 5 never make it out of the ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 3 2009 - 1:05pm

Pepper, Cure Thyself! Hotter Chilis Aren't Better Against Blight

of all susceptible crops.    This makes sense, intuitively.  If capsaicin can kill bacteria, cancer ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Feb 4 2009 - 4:47pm

How Would We Evolve If We Always Opened Beer Bottles With Our Teeth?

all the way in the back of the mouth. Thus, like the Galapagos finches' specialized beaks, ...

Article - Michael White - Apr 3 2015 - 5:21pm

Saving Michelangelo- Biotech Takes On Microorganisms In Art

souvenirs, tours and publications. "Despite the current economic downturn, we all have a great ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2009 - 11:37am

Ancient Cellular Machinery Pumps Out Signals For Wandering Fly Cells

prove that they had all of the protein processing components correct, the researchers decided to see if ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 18 2009 - 10:48pm