Life Sciences

Study Confirms Red Queen Hypothesis, Biologists Say

Glass in which the Red Queen tells Alice, 'It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2010 - 11:51am

Increasing Neurogenesis May Combat Drug Addiction

quality of life for millions of drug abusers, and all those affected by an abuser's behavior," ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2010 - 12:55pm

Why Do Animals Grow Bigger In The Cold?

fed these herbivores plants from both high and low latitudes and found that they all grew better when ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2010 - 4:19pm

DNA Evidence Indicates Polar Bears Are Evolutionarily Young

mitochondrial genome refers to all the DNA in the mitochondrion, the energy-producing component of most ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2010 - 2:58pm

Study Reveals Activity Of NEIL3 DNA Repair Mechanism

"DNA is damaged all the time. About one to two percent of oxygen in the body becomes toxic in cells, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2010 - 7:59pm

Pattern-Recognition Receptors: New Defenses Against Plant Diseases

cassava and banana that all suffer from important bacterial diseases, particularly in the developing ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2010 - 11:55am

Spinophilin- Master Regulator In Protein-Protein Reactions

40 phosphatases are available to interact with all substrate proteins. In fact, just one of them, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

Seasonal Flu Vaccine Increased H1N1 Infection Risk?

vaccines and risk for H1N1. All four studies were observational and, as a result, don't prove a causal ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2010 - 10:39pm

1976 'Swine Flu' Shot Fought Off New H1N1 Strain

mounted by all the participants suggests that routine vaccination against seasonal flu might confer ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2010 - 12:13pm

Enzyme May Prevent Alcoholism By Causing Sleepiness

21 to 26 years. All participants were genotyped for ADH1B*3 as well as additional polymorphisms that ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2010 - 4:53pm