An international collaboration of researchers including Felicia Goodrum of the University of Arizona's immunobiology department has studied how a human herpes virus carried by the majority of the population packages its genetic information during infection. The discoveries improve the chances of...
Fecal transplants have been in the news in the last few years as a novel way to treat powerful, debilitating bacterial infections, namely those of people infected with the bacterium*C. difficile.*The FDA is has introduced strict new regulations for the procedure, however, which is causing some...
With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of the environment to slow warming's damage to the planet. But a University of Iowa law professor believes the legal ramifications of this...
Cholesterol plays a key role in regulating proteins involved in cell signaling and may be important to many other cell processes, an international team of researchers has found. The results of their study are reported in the journal Nature Communications. Cholesterol's role in heart disease has...
The autonomic nervous system, which is the part of the nervous system beyond conscious control, plays an important role in the release of insulin from beta cells in the endocrine part of the pancreas. The process by which this occurs has been a mystery, since it is difficult to give detailed...
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have identified mechanisms in the brain responsible for regulating cocaine-seeking behavior, providing an avenue for drug development that could greatly reduce the high relapse rate in cocaine addiction. The research reveals that...
Researchers in the biological sciences department in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary have revealed how white blood cells move to infection or inflammation in the body; findings which could help lead to developing drug therapies for immune system disorders. The research is...
The possibility of FDA regulation of tobacco products has been an ongoing topic since at least the early 1990s. Why do some think the FDA should regulate tobacco products, and what have been some of the issues that complicate how they might do this?
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have demonstrated that the circadian system, the body's internal clock, regulates human platelet function and causes a peak in platelet activation corresponding to the known morning peak in adverse cardiovascular events. These findings are...
If the market can regulate itself, how come Taco Bell "beef" is mostly sand?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110125/ts_yblog_thelookout/attorneys-question-whether-what-taco-bell-calls-beef-is-actually-beef
Why won't a company with such shoddy products go out of business?
CSU as in California State University
I don't understand how tuition has gone up about $1000 every year (at least this year I know) because they increase fees every other month it seems.
Can't we have a law that limits the percentage of the hikes? You know like rent control or something? Thoughts?
The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Steven Joyce, has accepted a Commerce Commission recommendation to regulate mobile termination rates.
i have a good humor-breyer freezer and i need to fix the temperature but i cant find the nob or anything to change it, does anyone know how? its a model caravell 406-998 denmark. thanks!
oil drilling more effectively? It's pretty clear that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) under the Obama administration really failed to regulate BP effectively, with disastrous results in the Gulf.
If the Republicans win back control of Congress in 2010 and maybe win back the Presidency in...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby explores the following concept advanced in current health overhaul plans. "Both the House measure and the newly recast Senate bill would force insurers to spend the vast majority of premium revenue on medical care for their customers, reducing the...