Life Sciences

Why Yellow Fever Mosquitoes Love Humans- Thank Genetics

a guinea pig. In all three cases, the domestic form of the yellow fever mosquito showed a strong preference ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2014 - 5:35pm

Blind Scottish Centipede Reveals How Venomous Carnivores Evolved

centipedes appear to have lost the genes encoding all of the known light receptors used by animals, as well ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2014 - 3:47pm

Evolution Is Furthering Mutations That Are Making Us Whiter

cell biology and bio-computing. Through all this two mutations that functionally cause the lightening ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2014 - 11:44am

How Unfolded Proteins Move In The Cell- Visualized

unfold, the cell's systems can get overloaded and the chaperones can't handle them all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 9:00am

Fecal Prints Of Microbes- Making The Most Of A Crappy Situation

concentrations, and oxygen levels all determine whether these sulfate-using microbes are living in times of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 24 2014 - 2:00pm

Broccoli Compound Can Moderate Defects In Childhood 'Old Age' Syndrome Progeria

28 proteins with a broad range of functions that are faulty in the cell nuclei of HGPS patients- all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2014 - 10:53pm

Binge Drinking Disrupts Immune System In Small Study

Gordon Smith, MPH, Giora Netzer, MD and Jeffrey Hasday, MD, all of the University of Maryland. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2014 - 9:34pm

Cholera Bacterium Is The Mad Max Of DNA

bacterium from all over the world, most of which have been implicated in the 7th cholera pandemic, which ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 8:30am

Recreational Fishing Linked To Mediterranean Environmental Harm

Mediterranean, unlike other places in the world, catch and release is not "at all popular among ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 1:30pm

Coenzyme A Role In Nitric Oxide Function And Cell Metabolism

Colin Stomberski and Douglas T. Hess, all members of the Institute for Transformative Molecular ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 10:15am