Life Sciences

Fat Cells Under The Skin Help Protect Us From Bacteria

sufficient antimicrobial peptides in general and CAMP in particular. In all cases, they found the mice ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2015 - 10:00am

Neuroscientists Predict Hand Movements By Measuring Brain Cell Activity.

start of a grasping movement, we have illuminated all the objects so that the monkeys could see them and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2015 - 10:45am

Counterintuitive: Anti-Inflammatory Protein May Trigger Alzheimer's Disease Plaque

the anti-inflammatory protein IL-10 actually increases levels of all types of mouse APOE, which ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 9:01am

Retroviruses: Human Embryos May Be Affected By Ancient Viral Invaders

to study their function. All in all, Trono noted that up to a whopping 70 percent or so of the human ...

Article - Charles Choi - Jul 11 2015 - 8:19pm

Adult Stem Cell Transplants Reach 1 Million Worldwide- And Are Still Underused

cannot get the treatment they need. All countries need to provide adequate infrastructure for patients ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2015 - 10:00am

Pediatricians Under Pressure From Parents To Spread Out Vaccine Schedule

improved programs that support timely vaccinations. A new paper in Pediatrics found that almost all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2015 - 9:25am

The Mystery Of 'Foreign' Genes Not From Our Ancestors

evolution of many, perhaps all, animals and that the process is ongoing, meaning that we may need to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2015 - 11:41am

Sorry U.K. Celts, You're Probably Not

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland whose four grandparents all lived reasonably close together ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 2 2015 - 9:35am

Why Some People Have Trouble Telling Left From Right

pilots must refrain from all non-essential conversation to avoid unnecessary distractions. Such cockpit ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 25 2015 - 7:30am

Goldilocks Scaling- How Organisms Know Just The Right Size

trove of developmental resources all gets transferred to the oocyte that will become the future egg. The ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2015 - 9:30am