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Tropical species at great risk from climate change: study
Polar bears have been described as the poster species highlighting the dangers of climate change, but U.S. scientists suggest species living in the tropics may be in graver danger.
New DNA Variants Found That Can Help To Pile On The Pounds
A study of 90,000 people has uncovered new genetic variants close to a gene called MC4R that influence fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. The variants act in addition...
PHOTOS: Lizards, Opossum, Among New Cerrado Species
A legless lizard, a "miniature dragon," and a "cryptic toad" are among 14 new species recently found in Brazil's shrinking grassland.
Drug-resistant Tuberculosis On The Increase In The UK
A changing population structure and ongoing migration have increased cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to a study.
Cases: Desperate to Cry, Desperate Not To
Emphysema robbed my patient of a way to show her grief.
Stem Cell Researchers Create Heart And Blood Cells From Reprogrammed Skin Cells
Stem cell researchers were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The...
Stem Cells At Root Of Antlers' Branching
German researchers have found that deer antler growth and regeneration might be reduced to a stem cell-based process. Their results strongly support the view that the growth of primary antlers...
'Destruct' triggers may be jammed in tumor cells, UF geneticists say
Tumor cells living in the cross hairs of radiation or chemotherapy may be able to escape death because their self-destruct mechanisms are jammed, say University of Florida scientists writing in...
Consistencies Found In Synaesthesia: Letter 'A' Is Red For Many; 'V' Is Purple
New research adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that commonalities do indeed exists across synesthaetes. In their own study of 70 synesthaetes, and a reanalysis of 19 more...
Zebrafish may help solve ringing in vets' ears
Ernest Moore, an audiologist and cell biologist at Northwestern University, developed tinnitus -- a chronic ringing and whooshing sound in his ears -- twenty years ago after serving in the...
Gene therapy experiments improve vision in nearly blind
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a...
Tyson Told to End an Antibiotic Claim
Competitors objected to the ads by Tyson and said Tyson had injected its eggs with antibiotics and used antibiotic molecules in its feed.
Expressing Our Individuality, the Way E. Coli Do
Scientists have only a rough understanding of how human diversity arises.
Stem cells: The 3-billion-dollar question
Can a state do what a country cannot, and transform the way stem-cell research is funded? Erika Check Hayden reports on the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Food crisis spurs research spending
Agricultural research comes in from the cold.
International consortium to initiate cancer research, share data
An international cancer genome group was launched Tuesday, a collaborative effort on the part of nine countries to produce genomic data on different types of cancer.
Nunavut biologists pursue less intrusive wildlife monitoring
Government biologists in Nunavut say they will explore new techniques for conducting scientific tests on wildlife such as polar bears, following concerns raised by Inuit that satellite collars, tags and...
Wildlife group complained years before ducks got stuck in Alta. oilsands waste
A wildlife group says it predicted problems years before hundreds of migrating ducks were found dead and dying this week in a pond of toxic residue at a Syncrude oilsands...
Using Nanotech to Shut Down Troublesome Genes
For years scientists have been touting a disease-fighting technique called RNA interference. The idea behind it is pretty simple: By piggybacking on the body's own system for silencing genes, researchers...
Albert Hofmann, Dead at 102
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD died yesterday at the age of 102. Hofmann, who succumbed to a heart attack while at his home in Switzerland, first...
New Debate on Human Test of Stem Cells
Regulators are debating the risks and benefits of research that implants stem cells in humans.
Dangerous Cattle Virus On U.S. Mainland?
The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock,...
Rare Giant Turtle Found In Vietnam
Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam, giving scientists hope for the species they believed was extinct in the wild.
Mix-Up "Big Danger" In Sect's DNA Tests
An expert says the sheer number of simultaneous samplings to be taken from the Texas polygamists complicates matters greatly. He spoke with Russ Mitchell on The Early Show.
Balding Penguin Finds Salvation In Wetsuit
Biologists at the California Academy of Sciences had a wetsuit created for a blading African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
DNA Confirms Remains Of Czar's Children
DNA tests performed by a U.S. laboratory have proved that bone fragments exhumed in the Ural Mountains belong to two children of Russia's last czar, ending a persistent mystery about...
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Science close to making plant biofactories
CAMPBELL, Australia, April 30 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say they are a step closer to turning plants into "biofactories" capable of producing oils to replace petrochemicals.