In a laboratory, preclinical study recently published by the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers combined structural features from anti-nausea drug thalidomide with common kitchen spice turmeric to create hybrid molecules...
The giant water bug Lethocerus patruelis is the largest European true bug and the largest European water insect. The adult bugs reach an impressive 8 cm in length, and the largest representatives of the same family are even bigger – up to almost 12 cm. A new article published in the open access...
It’s a sad day for our friends down under. According to a story published in The Australian, the American brand that’s been building cars Down Under since the 1920s will cease production of Australian-specific models by October of 2016. The closure will result in the loss of 1200 jobs, although...
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how the most common genetic mutations in familial Parkinson's disease damage brain cells. The study, which published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience, could also open up treatment possibilities for...
Behold the power of green veggies! A new study revealed that a compound found in cruciferous veggies, like broccoli, can not only prevent--but kill-- leukemia cells. Published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers found that a specific compound in vegetables like broccoli--sulforaphane--caused...
People are outraged after pictures surfaced of 19-year-old Dylan Mayer, a diver, catching a still-alive Pacific octopus. Mayer caught the octopus in Washington's Puget Sound in an area popular with divers because of the variety of underwater wildlife.*Mayer said, "I eat it for meat. It's no...
A deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, a rare but often fatal infection caused by a water-borne bacteria, has*struck Quebec. Killing eight people and infecting over 100 more, the outbreak caught Canadian health officials by surprise. Now, they're struggling to contain what has been labeled...
Scientists have discovered when a cancer-killing virus is injected in the bloodstream it hitches a ride on blood cells and evades attack from the immune system, allowing it to reach cancer tumors, and start destroying cancer cells. They suggest this means it may be possible to use promising...
A concert commemorating the 15th anniversary of the release of Radiohead's classic album OK Computer turned tragic today when a pre-show accident killed one and injured several...
The man on the ground is a 42-year-old shop owner in the Meilan District of Haikou City, in Hainan, that big island south of mainland China. He is dead. A 41-year-old woman killed him. By squeezing his testicles. More »
Combining gemcitabine with MRK003, an experimental drug, triggers a chain of events leading to pancreatic cancer cell death, researchers from Cambridge reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The researchers explained that when the two drugs are combined, the effect of each one is...
Netbooks? They're already dead to us. But that hasn't stopped manufacturers churning them out. Now Dell has announced that it's killing them off — a sure sign they're done. More »
My cat is an outside animal and i cannot restrivt her to my house
However there is a dog owned by a couple of "Gangsters" as my brothers like to call them and it is absollutel HUUUGE around 4 feet in height. my little brothers witnessed it run after a fox and tear it apart into little pieces...
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered and received a patent for a naturally occurring lantibiotic - a peptide produced by a harmless bacteria - that could be added to food to kill harmful bacteria like salmonella, E. coli and listeria. The U of M lantibiotic is the first natural...
Especially after it has comes to light when she was governer she supported killing wolves from airplanes and then killing the puppies of the wolves.
What type of sick human being does that. Now I know that wolves and bears do the same thing in the wild but they are wild animals we are not...