Science news articles about 'bad reputation'

  • How drug that blocks cholesterol absorption from the diet works

    ... small molecules to interfere with the process.” Despite its bad reputation as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, cholesterol is an essential component of most biological ...
  • New research suggests Burmese pythons will find little suitable habitat outside South Florida

    ... . Burbrink, "Snakes already get an unwarranted bad reputation and the last thing needed in our current biodiversity crisis is to drum up more hatred of these animals by suggesting ...
  • Can Prions Be Epigenetic Regulators In Humans?

    ... Cow. Although prions are infectious agents with a bad reputation, research suggests that prions also play a role in epigenetic regulation. Recently, a Nature Cell ...
  • Redefining what it means to be a prion

    ... prions, from being a biological anomaly to a key Prions' bad reputation was fixed in the public's mind by "mad cow" disease. In the late 1980s, an unidentified disease ...
  • Teaching autistic teens to make friends

    ... behavior during get-togethers; changing bad reputations by changing one's "look" and owning up to a previously bad reputation; and handling teasing, bullying and arguments. Each class included brief didactic ...
  • Repairing a 'bad' reputation?

    ... of Alzheimer's patients, giving the molecule its questionable reputation. Yet a team of scientists in the laboratory of Kuo ...
  • Ecstasy use up as methamphetamine levels off

    ... to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring work done by Massey University ...
  • Educate yourself to boost achievement in kids

    ... environment for children---as opposed to giving them lots of free time---has been getting something of a bad reputation lately, Davis-Kean notes. But she believes that for the vast majority of U.S. children ...
  • The Resurrection Of Metaphysics?

    ... by Sebastian Kolodziejczyk at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Metaphysics these days has a bad reputation, even among philosophers, so I was aware of its 'fall' but I was rather curious ...
  • This is your brain on fatty acids

    Saturated fats have a deservedly bad reputation, but Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a sticky lipid occurring naturally at high levels ...
  • Plantations can provide the same ecosystem services as natural forests

    ... on natural forests. "Forest plantations have acquired a bad reputation," says Alain Paquette from the Université du Québec à Montréal, who co-authored ...
  • Small molecule with high impact

    ... adjuvants present in vaccines have a bad reputation. For most people, they are only unnecessary compounds within a medicinal product. This is a misunderstanding since adjuvants have a critical ...
  • Small molecule with high impact

    The adjuvants present in vaccines have a bad reputation. For most people, they are only unnecessary compounds within a medicinal product. This is a misunderstanding since adjuvants have a critical...
  • For California vintners, it's not easy being green

    ... can be used in certified wine. "Organic wine earned its bad reputation in the '70s and '80s," Grant said. "Considered 'hippie wine,' it tended to turn to vinegar more quickly ...
  • Small molecule with high impact

    ... adjuvants present in vaccines have a bad reputation. For most people, they are only unnecessary compounds within a medicinal product. This is a misunderstanding since adjuvants have a critical ...

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