Bacterial “disabler” treatment side-steps antibiotic resistance
It’s not an antibiotic, but it accomplishes the same thing as an antibiotic. A compound that disables bacteria instead of…
Language transforming medicine… for the worse
Senior medicos in the United States have launched a stinging attack on the use of business buzzwords in medicine, arguing…
Stars manufacturing complex organic matter?
An analysis of the spectral emissions from distant stars suggests that compounds of unexpected complexity – some resembling coal and…
Flood-tolerant crop breakthrough
Scientists from The University of Nottingham and the University of California, Riverside, have identified the molecular mechanism plants use to…
Compelling evidence for autism-antidepressant link
Rodents exposed to a common serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant just before and after birth exhibited brain abnormalities and behaviors…
Scientists mull brain size-Facebook correlation
People with more Facebook friends have more grey matter in their brain, but University College London (UCL) scientists aren’t sure…
Autism’s facial characteristics revealed
Researchers from the University of Missouri have found distinct differences between the facial characteristics of children with autism compared to…
Men 2% funnier than women
A University of California study by psychologist Laura Mickes has found that men are funnier than women, but not by…
Clever vibrational hack turns iPhone into spyPhone
Researchers at Georgia Tech have demonstrated how a smartphone accelerometer (the sensor that detects the phone’s orientation) can sense nearby…
Oral bacteria linked to colon cancer
The discovery of a strikingly large number ofFusobacterium cells in colorectal tumor samples has prompted researchers to consider that the…
Software identifies psychopaths
Using computer software to analyze the speech patterns of psychopathic killers shows they make readily identifiable subconscious word choices when…
Londoners lead in cell phone crap stakes
British poo boffins say that one-in-six of the cell phones they analyzed was contaminated with fecal matter and E. coli…
Schizophrenia created in a petri dish
Neurobiologists are using genetic engineering to reprogram skin cells – of patients with schizophrenia and other neurological disorders – and…
Immune system ruse nixes peanut allergy
For the first time, Northwestern University researchers have turned off a life-threatening allergic response to peanuts by tricking the immune…
Artistic mega-octopus may topple ichthyosaur from top of Triassic food chain
Neatly arranged fossilized vertebrae from a number of bus-sized ichthyosaurs could actually be a self portrait composed by a verylarge…
Fish frequent flyers
A new Northern Arizona University study into how fish behave when stranded on land suggests that excursions onto dry land…
Energy levels of Crab Pulsar defy explanation
An international team of scientists has detected pulsed gamma rays from the neutron star at the heart of the Crab…
Zinc’s role in the brain revealed
Researchers have discovered that zinc plays a critical role in regulating how the neurons in our brain communicate with one…
Alzheimer’s may be transmissible a la mad cow disease
Alzheimer’s disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; suggests new…
First images from ALMA radio telescope
The world’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, has captured its first…
Scale of epigenetic changes observed in stimulated brain is “mind boggling”
In a discovery with major implications for treating psychiatric diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, Johns Hopkins neurologists have established that non-dividing…