Life Sciences

Wurst Keeps You Breathing

a decisive role in breathing – possibly in all animals, from flies to human beings. This insight is reported ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2007 - 11:34pm

It Was An Anomalocaris-Eat-Trilobite World, But Still A Lot Like Today

Why? Because analyses of Chengjiang and Burgess Shale food-web data suggest that most, but not all ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2008 - 11:53pm

Vibrio Fischeri- The Gene That Lets Bacteria Jump From Host To Host

All life  depends on peaceful coexistence with a swarm of microbial life inside us that performs ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 1:03am

Nine New X Chromosome Genes Associated With Learning Disabilities

almost all X chromosome genes in 208 families with learning disabilities- the largest screen of this type ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:03am

ET: Anybody Home?

suggest that with the billions of worlds available, that life is all but inevitable 1. Equally there is ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Feb 9 2010 - 4:40pm

Why A Skull May Not Tell Us If An Ancient Human Walked Upright

Inside Science-- How can you tell how a creature walked when all that you have is the head? For ...

Article - Inside Science - Apr 20 2016 - 9:28am

Vaccination Opponents Drive An Epidemic Of COVID-19 Misinformation

There is a saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So, it should ...

Article - W. Glen Pyle - Nov 23 2020 - 1:03pm

Thanksgiving Dinner Means A Bacterial War For Your Teeth

On Thanksgiving Day, it will be all hugs and football for many people, but inside their mouths one ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2020 - 2:31pm

Global Study Concludes 'Attack Rate' Of Flu In Kids Is 55 Percent Lower With Nasal Spray Vaccine

of hospitalization from all causes in the six months following the vaccination. This trend was not ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2007 - 1:22am

New Mathematical Model To Add Rigor To Studies Of Disease Genetics And Evolution

International HapMap Project, which created rough maps of the genomes of hundreds of people from all around the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2007 - 12:58am