Another point for the team that is pro stem-cell research. In findings published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, a study indicated that stem cell therapy was helping patients with...

This development falls into a host of categories as the author suggests - anywhere along the crazy to logical spectrum. Scientists are trying to figure out a way to re-structure DNA in animals to...

It's great to have the cool cell phones and the top of the line televisions, but when it comes right down to it, technology is supposed to be making our lives better, not just more entertaining....

Kindergarteners are going to have to come up with a new term for Big letter A and little letter a. Well, at least for the little letters anyway. Either that or the team of this new product is...

Are you driving yourself crazy because you have too much free time? Okay, maybe people at work are driving you crazy. One way or another, Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky believes you are prone...

In a surprising turnabout, the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations that celebrate Christmas have tacitly endorsed the until-now dogmatically radioactive notion of evolution by natural...

My own instinct is not to acknowledge the phrase "intelligent designer" in any context other than university and industrial synthetic chemists. This sentiment only strengthens as time passes...

I stopped thinking about deadly bacteria and started thinking about the tasty bacon halfway through a spinach salad tonight. The only acceptable reason to eat spinach is nutrition, and the only...

Technology, like the economy, is a wholly owned subsidiary of evolution. It's easy to forget. Certainly, human ingenuity has brought something entirely new to the planet. But it has done so by...

Can you eat chocolate and significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular ailments? Not quite, but a new study suggests that consuming flavanols, a class of chemicals found in cocoa, will do just...

A new study has concluded there is no correlation between mobile phone use and the occurrence of brain tumors. Though a link was acknowledged between the side of the head people used while using a...

A Canadian couple with RFID chips implanted in their hands was recently profiled by the Vancouver Sun. Owing to the RFID tag feature of being able to broadcast a unique code for no more than a few...

Medical researchers at WiCell, a private U.S. lab, have developed two new stem-cell lines in a process that has removed animal cells from its culture for the first time. The formerly preferred method...

Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine have discovered that a gene found in zebrafish responsible for pigment and stripe color is related to a single gene in humans...

Medical researchers have discovered that certain carbon nanoparticles are an impetus for platelets to aggregate, demonstrating the occurence in human and rat platelet models. This discovery has...

Medical researchers at Yale have identified an abnormality on a single gene that is associated with some forms of Tourettes. Read the article.A new drug being marketed as Remicade has been proven in...

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