Life Sciences

Blood Clots Absorb Bacterial Toxin

mice, lobsters and horseshoe crabs. In all four species, they found that fluorescently tagged ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2013 - 5:12pm

Not Just Hospitals: 'Superbugs' Breed In Chinese Sewage Plants Too

about sewage treatment plants as a way to protect us, to get rid of all of these disease-causing ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2013 - 12:14pm

Brains Of Patients In A Vegetative State React To Photographs Of People They Know

activity in real time. In response to all the photographs, a region specific to facial recognition was ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2013 - 3:04pm

Testosterone In Males May Enhance Desire To Sing- But Not Song Quality

A third group received no hormone treatment at all. Alward said both groups of birds that received ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2014 - 10:30am

Autophagy Is Reduced In The Brains Of Schizophrenic Patients

researchers say. "It is all about balance," said Gozes. "Paucity in beclin 1 may lead to ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2013 - 5:30pm

Pregnenolone Molecule Protects The Brain From Marijuana Intoxication

steroid hormone. Up to now, pregnenolone was considered the inactive precursor used to synthesize all the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 5:08pm

Has Sweet Corn Science Helped Industry?

kernels). Yet nearly all historic and recent field research in processing sweet corn reports neither of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2014 - 1:25pm

Magnets, Migration And Fish

the 1,000+ fish would all have swam in the same direction. Instead there was just a tendency. Fish ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 3:07pm

How Did Vertebrates Evolve A Face?

more primitive and some more advanced, the authors were able to map out all the main steps of the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 5:44pm

Fruit-Eaters Score Higher On Spatial Memory Tests

half were empty. After the lemur learned which boxes contained food and which didn't, all eight ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2014 - 10:19am