Life Sciences

Zombie Ant Fungi Manipulate Where Victims Die

searching 22 transects covering a total of 16,988 square miles, they discovered that all 17 nests found had ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2014 - 6:00pm

Ionic Liquids: Busting Through Biofilm Shatters Defenses Of Serious Skin Infections

among the most common diagnoses in hospital patients, accounting for some 10% of all hospital visits. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 5:17pm

MERS Has Low Transmissibility But It's Still Dangerous

available to all physicians. Access to the families of infected persons in the Arabic country was ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2014 - 11:30am

Synaptic Plasticity And Memory In Silent Neurons

brain's "What came first?" mystery, as they make it possible to examine all the synaptic ...

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

Estrogen And Cannabis- Today's Concentrated Pot Risky Business For Women

amounts but may be useful for medical purposes. All three compounds are present in the most common species ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2014 - 10:00am

Synapsids Push Evolutionary Origin Of Nocturnality In Mammals Back 100 Million Years

common ancestor of all synapsids was active at night. The new study reveals that Dimetrodon's would ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2014 - 8:38pm

No Common Ancestor: How Caffeine Evolved In Coffee

more driven by duplications in particular gene families as opposed to en masse, when all genes in the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 1:15pm

LncRNA FAL1- The Dragon Cancer Oncogene Found In Junk DNA

lncRNA on chromosome 1, or FAL1, had all the makings of an RNA oncogene. FAL1 is one of only a handful of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 2:19pm

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny- Except For This Strange-Looking Head

there are features common to all." Published in Nature. Source: Stowers Institute for Medical ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 11:31am

Wild Mushrooms: You May Eat Something Even Science Doesn't Know About

edulis, B. pinophilus, B. reticulatus, B. rex-veris), around half of all porcini traded in Europe ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 10:41am