Life Sciences

A Week On An Island Of Angst

regulatory front, convinced that all regulatory agencies have either been bought-off by nefarious industry ...

Article - Steve Savage - Aug 6 2013 - 10:41am

Congenital Muscular Dystrophies Linked To Glycans

limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. All of these mutations affect proteins (enzymes) that are responsible for ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2013 - 9:00am

Near-Death Experiences Verified? Dying Brains Show Electrical Signatures Of Consciousness

arrest, all of the rats displayed a widespread, transient surge of highly synchronized brain activity that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2013 - 6:10pm

TERC Gene Linked To Blood Cancer

therefore greater statistical accuracy. All of the four new genetic variants are close to genes which are ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2013 - 10:20pm

Echolocation's Convergent Evolution: Genetic Similarities Between Bats And Dolphins

group to the exclusion of all non-echolocating mammals. See Methods for details of model fitting and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 1:25pm

RNA World Hypothesis: Primordial Soup May Need A New Recipe

their structures aligned. They found that all the enzymes have virtually identical cores that can be ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2013 - 5:42pm

Brain May Be Hard-Wired For Chronic Pain

hundreds of billions of dollars per year to treat. Lower back pain represents about 28 percent of all ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2013 - 9:16am

See How Your Baby Detects Dolts

until all of the objects have been displayed, and make note of how many times your baby points to the ...

Article - Shaun Gallagher - Oct 1 2013 - 2:14am

Pathogen Sleuthing A False Alarm On Hepatitis

biological samples, he said. “The silica used in nearly all commercial spin columns is derived from the cell ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2013 - 9:47am

Ballet Dancers' Brains Are Different Too

significant cluster for each subject with perceptual TCs. All significant clusters are shown P < 0.05 ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2013 - 12:51am