To fund an innovative Quebec-Chinese research initiative in this area, the Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation from…
In an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) Uppsala researchers are now presenting results of experiments that…
Timothy Caulfield, professor and research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada, led a consensus workshop to develop…
In the world of armed beetles, biggest is usually best, as males often fight for mating rights and those with the largest jaws beat off the competition….
A “Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases,” say Professor Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute and George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA) and…
“The blood froze in my veins” or “My blood curdled” – these common figures of speech can be taken literally, according to the latest studies. Indeed, more…
Beetles can be very beautiful and colorful, but many beetle species are also serious agricultural pests that can destroy food plants like potatoes (the…
The University of Illinois study appears this week online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels…
The trade in exotic pets has become a multi-billion dollar enterprise, but expansion of the industry sometimes outpaces veterinary knowledge of how to treat…
Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a virus which causes several types of cancer but is particularly associated with cervical cancer, has developed clever ways of…
A team of scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, has succeeded in creating a new type of enzyme…
In a study of New Zealand’s “living dinosaur” the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan…
By injecting a customized “genetic patch” into early stage fish embryos, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were able to…
HCV is a significant human pathogen, infecting more than three percent of the world’s population. The incidence of infection in the United States has been…
Despite the distinctive contributions these genes likely make to our species, little is known about the roles they play. Now scientists at Washington…
For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to treat disease in the same subjects from whom the initial…
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