Life Sciences

Like Plants? Thank Mass Extinctions

One of the largest mass extinctions ever is bad. Six marine extinctions is even worse. That all ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2022 - 7:32am

Human Stem Cell Transplants Repair Rat Spinal Cords

Xu, Annie M. Welsh, Glen Hatfield and Koliatsos, all of Hopkins, and Thomas Hazel and Karl Johe of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2007 - 1:06pm

Google Your Brain

labeled all the proteins so we would have reference points so we know we’re looking at the same protein ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2007 - 7:08pm

Scientists Find Method To Pick Noncompetitive Animals, Improve Production

aggressiveness and all other traits affecting social interactions are inherited and can be estimated. They also ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2007 - 12:33am

Scientists Produce Neurons From Human Skin

procedure seems particularly interesting for diseases such as Parkinson’s, but it’s all theoretical for now. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2007 - 10:26am

Researchers Discover Gene Essential To Cerebellum Formation

important component of the central nervous system found in all vertebrates, including humans, and the part ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2007 - 2:21pm

Organic Farming Practices Cause 200 Instances Of Serious Food Poisoning

avoid all unprocessed food grown on organic farms.    So-called conventional farms use only synthetic ...

Article - Lee Silver - Feb 23 2012 - 11:43pm

Novel Salamander Robot Crawls Its Way Up The Evolutionary Ladder

change from walking to swimming. The model therefore provides a potential explanation – relevant for all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2007 - 1:47am

Severe Mental Retardation Gene Mutation Identified

based on the previous genetics work. It was found only because we were systematically looking at all the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2007 - 10:38pm

No Sex For 40 Million Years? No Problem

speciation in sexual organisms. Asexual creatures like the bdelloid rotifers were known not to be all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2007 - 12:29am