Life Sciences

How Accurate Is Epidemiology?

Taubes shows no understanding of the big picture. Above all, epidemiology is a way to generate new ideas. ...

Article - Seth Roberts - Sep 16 2007 - 11:20pm

SNPs Not Just Junk- Tiny Differences Have Huge Consequences

all the phenotypic differences in the way we look, grow, and behave just by the handful of these ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2008 - 11:37am

Breech Delivery Is Inherited- Study

Norway looked at data covering all the births in Norway between 1967 and 2004. They studied the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2008 - 6:32pm

First In Adult Stem Cell Research- Heart Derived Cells Develop Into Heart Muscle

The disadvantage of this method is that the yield is low, because not all cells develop into muscle ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2008 - 10:47am

Bilingual Pre-School Kids Become More Likely To Stutter

Greater London, and all had started school in the UK at the age of 4 or 5. The children's parents ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 6:44pm

Synaesthesia- Quirky Phenomenon Or Consistent Neuroscience Experience?”

“that different measures of such associations converge to illustrate a nonarbitrary relationship for all ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 12:25pm

Trying To Make Progress Toward Malaria Elimination

malaria can remain hidden in a reservoir of asymptomatic carriers, mass treatment of all people in an area ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 10:16am

Group Exercise Found To Help Kids With Developmental Disabilities

heart rates above the healthy levels recommended for all children by the American Heart Association. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2009 - 12:05pm

Is Genome Transcription Bidirectional?

Pluto'ed?   Let's not rewrite the textbooks just yet. Not all of the produced transcripts are stable, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2009 - 7:20pm

The Evolution Of Teeth

network, with a few tweaks in each case- teeth in all vertebrates are produced by minor genetic variations ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 22 2009 - 12:58pm