Scientists say they have discovered a unique 'DNA signature' in human sperm, which may act as a key that unlocks an egg's fertility and triggers new life.  Drs David Miller and David Iles from…

A new class of antibody drugs may help in treatment of childhood eye diseases but specialists need to be alert for the possibility of serious side effects, according to an editorial in the August…

Call it irreversibility, call it time's arrow, call it the second law of thermodynamics. Fact is that everything evolves in such a way that things get more messy. Disorder rises. Entropy increases.…

Recently, there has been an outburst of data from Virtual Telescopes made by linking a number of radio telescopes to create continent wide virtual dishes. While the technique offers astronomers…

    Wilkinson, DA (2006). High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy quality assurance: a practical guide. Biomedical Imaging and Interventional Journal, pages 1-7.     The…

Don't chew someone else's food if you have HIV or AIDS?   Sure, that sounds like common sense but lots of things that seem like common sense to some are abstract to others - try explaining…

Your mother, despite lacking an expensive lab studying phytochemicals or a PhD (well, for most of us anyway) told you that carrots would help you see better.     And she was right, but…

Sample Radiation Protection and Safety/ALARA Program based on Philippine Perspective Management CommitmentStatement from the management. I. Organization and ResponsibilitiesChairVice-ChairBoard…

The Voynich Manuscript part 6 : The Other Babylon When I first saw images from the Voynich manuscript, I was interested in the unusual script.  As a linguist, my first thoughts were about the…

I recently got back the referee's comments on my mad scientist speech, submitted to the Journal for Villains (JV). Abstract Ha ha!1         They2 said3 it couldn't[could not] be…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was invented at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in the mid 1970s and was used as a research tool in neurology, cardiology, and…

    Liu, L., Prasad, S., Bassano, J.H., Keshler, B., Hahn, S. (2004). A dwell position verification method for high dose rate brachytherapy. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics…

When your famous exports are Italian mobsters, meatball hoagies, and the horrid track suit + gold chain look, and more recently corrupt mayors/rabbis, you pounce on anything that can give you a…

How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper, 2nd ed.  by Björn Gustavii link Copyright Gustavii 2003, 2008 ISBN-13978-0-511-39463-8 About the Author BJÖRN GUSTAVII became an editor of Acta…

Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why…

The Rocky Mountains command this part of the world. Vast, humbling, magestic, they define this part of the world. Vertically, they soar above 14,440 feet or 4,401 meters. Spanning 40 degrees of…

A deadly new airborne wheat rust disease threatens wheat production and food security throughout Afghanistan. The disease also threatens the region that stretches east across neighboring Pakistan and…

Often the topic of controversy, stem cells research has once again proved itself necessary. University of Florida researchers were able to program bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in…

The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins keep them from aggregating and clumping. If this protection fails, the lens blurs and the patient…

Every day we make a multitude of decisions based on the consequences of our actions; goal-orientated responses. In an always changing environment this capacity is crucial but, because it is complex,…