Life Sciences

GM Mice Put To Work As Living, Furry Hidden Landmine Detectors

five years.  Throughout all of this, of course, the safety of our beady-eyed, furry friends would be ...

Article - Eve Hardy - Oct 16 2012 - 1:30pm

Transgenic,Transparent Zebrafish Shows Alzheimer's At Work In Brains

needed. And in a neuron, an extremely power-hungry cell, that means moving mitochondria all the way down ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 12:01pm

Convergent Evolution? Biological Adaptation To Thin Air And A Gene Trait Quirk

problems among all people. "We also want to find whether people with the variants for low hemoglobin ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2012 - 5:00am

Brain Imaging Shows Cannabis Only Brings Subjective Pain Relief

like a conventional pain medicine. Some people respond really well, others not at all, or even poorly. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2012 - 12:10pm

The Olfactory Effect of Bad Science

isolate such a finding sufficiently to exclude all the other factors [including male competition] from ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Dec 31 2012 - 12:48am

Good Fat And Bad Fat: The Metabolic Fight In Your Body

missing p62 in all tissues. Upon further study, the researchers found that p62 blocks the action of an ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2013 - 11:51am

Alarm Over Ornamental Fish Could Lead To Action On Antibiotic Resistance

from tanks; consider quarantining all new fish in a separate tank for 30 days; wash hands after working ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2013 - 9:00pm

How a little known virus can cause asthma in kids.

develop asthma. Not all kids who are infected however, get asthma. Why this happens, is a whole other ...

Blog Post - Bharat T Srinivasa - Feb 22 2013 - 3:42pm

Elite Athletes Are Cognitive Elites Too

be a little better at stopping if I need to." All in all, the new findings add to the evidence ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2013 - 4:09pm

'Living Fossil'? Scientists Argue Its Usefulness

to any particular species as they all look remarkably similar. For example, 250-million-year-old ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2013 - 10:15am