Sugar Shields Versus A Hostile Microenvironment
You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that...
Genetics & Molecular Biology
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Evolution
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You Laugh Like An Ape
All living great apes laugh, and of course humans do as well.
Microbiology
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Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic
Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the...
Ecology & Zoology
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Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)
Immunology
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RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term...
Neuroscience
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AI And Brain: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal
Am thrilled to report here that Scilight just launched a new gold open-access journal, "AI and Brain", of which I am the editor in chief. Below you can see the front page of a leaflet I will soon be...
Severe mental retardation gene mutation identified
Researchers have identified a novel gene mutation that causes X-linked mental retardation for which there was no previously known molecular diagnosis, according to an article to be published…
Scientists unlock mystery of embryonic stem cell signaling pathway
A newly discovered small molecule called IQ-1 plays a key role in preventing embryonic stem cells from differentiating into one or more specific cell types, allowing them to instead continue growing…
Protein structures for the entire yeast proteome
Imagine the power of knowing the three-dimensional structures of all proteins. The 3D-structure can provide information about critical protein-protein interactions both from a global perspective as…
Scientists unlock mystery of embryonic stem cell signaling pathway
A newly discovered small molecule called IQ-1 plays a key role in preventing embryonic stem cells from differentiating into one or more specific cell types, allowing them to instead continue growing…
Brain structure changes years before memory loss begins
People who develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease experience brain structure changes years before any signs of memory loss begin, according to a study published in the April 17, 2007, issue of…
New mathematical model to add rigor to studies of disease genetics and evolution
USC College computational biologist Peter Calabrese has developed a new model to simulate the evolution of so-called recombination hotspots in the genome.
Published March 5 in the early online…
Chemical cues turn embryonic stem cells into cerebellar neurons
In order to differentiate and specialize, stem cells require very specific environmental cues in a very specific order, and scientists have so far been unable to prod them to go through each of the…
The Monkey Theory of Evolution
I’m no kin to the monkey, no no,no
The monkey’s no kin to me, yeah yeah, yeah
I don’t know much about his ancestors,
But mine didn’t swing from a tree.
It seems so unbelievable
And yet they’re…
Stealth camouflage at night
Cuttlefish are well-known masters of disguise who use highly developed camouflage tactics to blend in almost instantaneously with their surroundings. These relatives of octopuses and squid are part…
100 million rodents a year
For 100 million rodents a year: what are we getting?
According to two recent studies (Carbone 2004, Balcombe, 2005), the United States now leads the world in the consumption of yet one…
