Last week, we were pretty amazed by how many readers were willing to confess their favorite weird foods to eat when no one was watching. And it made us wonder: what other secrets are our readers hiding. Like, for example, are there any cheating vegans among us who, even just occasionally, slip a...
One of the challenges to HIV vaccine development has been the lack of an animal model that accurately reflects the human immune response to the virus and how the virus evolves to evade that response. In Science Translational Medicine, researchers from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General...
I live on a farm and my wife is terrible. I live in the uk and all the women are fat and ugly so I have turned to animals. Which one will be the best:
sheep, horse, dog, or goat?
horse is prob to tall for me to get to, sheep or the goat would be best. what do you reccommend?
Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and other species known to succumb to the virus, according to a consortium of wildlife health experts. In a recently...
Well, this is disturbing. UK-based handmade, all-natural cosmetics company Lush*has teamed up with the Humane Society *to help bring an end to animal testing. But they didn't stop at a petition or a small demonstration--the multi-national company has staged a pretty shocking protest in one of...
Type1 diabetes is caused by autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells. Over 250,000 patients suffer from type 1 diabetes in Germany who are treated with daily insulin injections to maintain glucose metabolism. Replacement of the destroyed beta cells by transplantation of either...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disorder in which there are recurring episodes of upper airway collapse during sleep with ongoing effort to breathe. OSA is estimated to affect 1 in 5 adults in America. The serious nature of the problem was captured in a landmark study which found that...
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of cancer that is diagnosed more frequently in younger women compared with other types of breast cancer. The five-year survival rate is between 25 and 50 percent - significantly lower than the survival rate for other...
New rule! Any commercials involving a baseball Hall of Famers must also include a lodge full of guitar-thrumming and jug-puffing anthropomorphic wildlife.
Doubt that directive? Witness the tune-tapping acid trip (and generally awesome mayhem) that ensues when the Minnesota State Lottery sticks...
A study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience shows that the compound epothilone D (EpoD) is effective in preventing further neurological damage and improving cognitive performance in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The results establish how the drug might be used in...
There are so many incidents of child punishment bordering murder by their
own parents that one wonders are those people are even human:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/13085809/girl-dies-after-bed-wetting-punishment/
Why Christianity, their education system and powerful media failed...
I really need some bells and I wanted to know if someone who had hacked their game or who has a lot would let me come to their town and let me have some? I would really appreciate it!!
Name- Macie
City- Forever
0089-7062-0135
I know the rock trick, and I need LOTS, not a few thousands. And I...
New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain", has come up with a new theory called "the survival circuit concept" that he outlines in Wednesday's issue of the journal Neuron. He suggests that instead of asking whether the feelings and emotions we humans...
i see loose unowned dogs wandering here and there several times a day. These dogs are in dirty condition. I see them in parking lots of hotels, restaurants, auto garage repair, etc etc. What's even more shocking is that the community is used to their presence and don't care anymore. After...
I only have enough money for one more comic. Animal man has much better reviews, but i'm not very familiar with the character and more interested in nightwing. However I feel like I might be missing out if I don't get animal man
Scientists from the EPFL and the University of Geneva have discovered a genetic mechanism that defines the shape of our members in which, surprisingly, genes play only a secondary role. The research, published in Cell online, shows the mechanism is found in a DNA sequence that was thought...