Life Sciences

Gamma Wave 'Glue' Of Memory And Learning In Children

categories, such as "dog" representing not just a single animal but all dogs. "During this ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2008 - 2:42pm

Genomic Study Says Our Immune Response To Rhinovirus Causes Common Cold Symptoms, Not The Virus Itself

given a sham inoculation in the form of a nasal saline spray. The volunteers were all healthy college ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2008 - 12:18pm

Genetic Dead End- 5300 Year-Old Oetzi Has No Modern Relatives

of haplogroup K1, which is still common throughout Europe today. However, almost all members of K1 ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2008 - 11:30am

Brain's 'Hate Circuit' Identified

all-consuming passion, just like love. But whereas in romantic love, the lover is often less critical and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2008 - 6:31pm

Frisky Squirrels At UC Davis To Go On Birth Control

others will be given a placebo of sterile saline to serve as a scientific control for comparison. All the ...

Article - Jen Palmares Meadows - Nov 13 2008 - 2:27pm

Insomnia Linked To Neurochemical Abnormality In GABA

Chronic insomnia, or symptoms that last for at least a month, affects about 10 percent of all adults in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2008 - 11:39am

Junk DNA? Anything But

the key to some of the important physical differences that distinguish humans from all other species. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2008 - 7:17pm

Hyperdisease Conditions And Extinction

(virtually all extant) to see if the infectious agent existed in the population before and after contact with ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2008 - 12:03am

Copy Number Variation- A New(ish) Approach To Genetic Differences In Chimps And Humans

apparently only one in all chimpanzees.  The authors suggest that it might be evolutionary selection of CNDs ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2008 - 11:03am

Mutating Viruses To Death Using Forced Evolution

rates are too high, the system delocalizes and gets spread all over sequence space."  Deem said the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2008 - 7:01pm