A new DNA scan that uses the same semi conductor chip technology as digital cameras may drastically cut costs while speeding up the process of deciphering all of the human gene sequence, thus providing a personalized report of health risks and possible therapies according to a new groundbreaking...
How is it that a disc-like cluster of cells transforms within the first month of pregnancy into an elongated embryo? This mechanism is a mystery that man has tried to unravel for millennia. The first significant step towards understanding the issue was made nearly a century ago in experiments...
Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that a "fountain of youth" that sustains the production of new neurons in the brains of rodents is also believed to be present in the human brain. The existence of a vital support system of cells around stem cells in the brain explains why...
Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered that a low dose of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (LDN) has an extraordinarily potent antitumor effect on human ovarian cancer in tissue culture and xenografts established in nude mice...
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced receipt of a research grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to investigate the mechanisms underlying Left Ventricular Hypertrophy. Commonly known as an increase of...
its fairly obvious that technology is released to the public fairly systematical, lets face it we get a new version of the thing we brought last week this week..
so my question is how far advanced could we actually be
is it possible advanced Technologies are being hidden so that profit can be...
My interest is in developing a plausible evidence-based story of how modern humans emerged from ancestral species. This means guessing at what features of humans make us "human" and attempting to see the emergence of each of these features in the fossilized record of our bodies (bones) and...
New research says studying both adult and embryonic stem cells can benefit medical science, but banning the study of either type could harm studies of the other. Researchers from the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. recently investigated whether...
Please join Abbi Allan and me at the black Dog Cafe next Tuesday.
Art and Human Evolution - June 14, 2011
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Are humans the only creatures who create art? At what point in human evolution did artistic creations become separate from tools, become art for arts' sake...
Will The Human Centipede sequel get banned in America, like it just was in Britain? Please?! —Kozan82, via the inbox You speak of Human Centipede II: Full Sequence, in...
Believers always play by the double standard: if something good happens, it's because of (1) God's infinite love. But if something bad happens: (2) God's mysterious.
Shouldn't we finally cut this dialectical prestidigitation, and judge God from the perspective of our so-called limited human...
Researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) have carried out a research study published in Biological Conservation, which looked at whether spiders were more tolerant of human impact than other animals. The answer was no: arachnids suffer the consequences of changes to their...
Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found. The researchers used a virtual...
For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw. But a definitive new University of Utah study shows that Nutcracker Man didn't eat nuts, but instead chewed...