Life Sciences

Can Transplanted Embryonic Stem Cells Integrate Into Target Organs? A Neuron Test Case

embryonic stem cells (hESC), and induced pluripotent stem cells(iPS Cells), can give rise to all of the 220 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2011 - 12:00pm

Did Infectious Disease Gene Changes Conquer The Human Evolution Bottleneck?

expanding dramatically in both number and range, and replacing all other co-existing evolutionary cousins, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2012 - 4:30am

ICAD 2012: Top Ten Cephalopod Stories From The Last Year

To celebrate International Cephalopod Awareness Days, I decided to comb through all the cephalopod ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 11 2012 - 2:09am

Frankincense Resin Secretory System Analyzed Just In Time For Christmas

frankincense, most don't know what they were for, or why anyone would bring them all that distance to give ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 12:00pm

To The Brain, There Is No Such Thing As A Small Stroke- But An Approved Drug Helps

says a study from U.C. San Diego. All is not lost, though. The effects can be mitigated by  the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2012 - 6:13pm

Beer Science: If Yeast Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy

right, you and yeast are not so far apart after all. Yeast is such a popular model organism for learning ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:11pm

Corrected Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Spark Muscle Regeneration

Human embryonic stem cells still get all of the attention- a company in California might be able ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2013 - 6:00pm

Busseola Fusca Caterpillars Resistant To GM Maize

eventually happen in all pest control instances, when insect populations develop resistance to the toxin. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2013 - 11:03am

Therapeutic Dopamine: Happiness Signal Cascades Created In Mice

feelings of happiness- but that is not all. It remembers the state of happiness and keeps wanting to ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2013 - 11:59am

Talking Plants Are Science Fiction- Maybe Not

Plants, like almost all living organisms, have an internal communication system to respond to ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2014 - 4:35pm