Vegetarianism is not exactly what springs to mind when considering spiders, which usually rely on web spinning and other finely tuned techniques to catch and eat other creatures. But one spider has now been observed to feed mostly on plants, shattering t... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Homicide of strangers by people with schizophrenia is so rare that is impossible to predict who might offend or when it might happen, say researchers. More than half of offenders in the study had never been treated for schizophrenia -- earlier treatment fo... (source: Science daily) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Researchers from France and the US have discovered a way in which bacteria that cause disease by invading human cells escape destruction by cellular processes that normally mop up and destroy unwanted foreign agents. The discovery is significant becau... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Wake Forest University School of Medicine honored eight of its researchers with awards for excellence at the 13th Annual Research Awards Day Oct. (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
[ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]You've no doubt heard of “free radicals”, those nasty chemicals that seem to contribute to heart disease, cancer and all sorts of human ailments. Maybe you even take antioxidant vitamins ... (source: Scientific American) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
The action of a small protein that is a major villain in Alzheimer's disease can be counterbalanced with another brain protein, researchers have found in an animal study. (source: Science daily) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Researchers are addressing the treatment of a rare pediatric brain tumor. New findings suggest a new standard protocol could improve survival nearly two-fold for pediatric patients with choroid plexus tumors. (source: Science daily) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
A sophisticated computational algorithm, applied to a large set of gene markers, has achieved greater accuracy than conventional methods in assessing individual risk for type 1 diabetes. (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Researchers have identified a key molecular player in guiding the formation of synapses -- the all-important connections between nerve cells -- in the brain. This discovery, based on experiments in cell culture and in mice, could advance scientists' unders... (source: Science daily) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
By imitating the way embronic stem cells grow into heart muscle, bioengineers from the US say they have completed the first step toward growing a living three dimensional "heart patch" that has the potential to repair heart tissue. However, they stres... (source: Medical News Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
A combination of bioengineering and medical research at the University of California, San Diego has led to a new discovery that could pave the way for more effective treatments for liver disease. In this work, the researchers have utilized an array syst... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Wake Forest University School of Medicine honored eight of its researchers with awards for excellence at the 13th Annual Research Awards Day Oct. 1. The School of Medicine established the Basic and Clinical Sciences Research Awards in May 1996 to recogn... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Background: Brassica rapa is one of the most economically important vegetable crops worldwide. Owing to its agronomic importance and phylogenetic position, B. rapa provides a crucial reference to understand polyploidy-related crop genome evolution. The hig... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Infectious diseases currently cause about one-third of all human deaths worldwide, more than all forms of cancer combined. (source: Topix.net) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(Society for Experimental Biology) UK bioscientists are transferring GM knowledge and technology from the developed to the developing world to help fight future food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Howard Atkinson will report on a multi-nationa... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
(Cell Press) Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. Those differences can be seen in the brain and in the performance of Chinese children... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
(Villanova University) There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small Central American jumping spider has ... (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Individuals with Parkinson's disease who have higher levels of a metabolite called urate in their blood and in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a slower rate of disease progression, according to a... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Dr. John England, Professor and Chairman of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, analyzed research findings and was responsible for the quality and accuracy of evidence analysis and the co... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A multi-national research team reports in the journal Circulation that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of cardiac symptoms and sudden death in patients who have an inherited cardiac disease called cong... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
An apparent allergic reaction after an immunization should be investigated rather than avoiding future immunizations, which could leave patients at greater risk of disease, according to new medical guidelines published in the October issue of Annals of All... (source: Topix.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in treating diseases in patients. (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
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