Two recent studies investigating the use of human umbilical cord blood stem cell (UCB) transplants…
Month: November 2009
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Mass extinction: Why did half of N. America’s large mammals disappear 40,000 to 10,000 years ago?
Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have yielded…
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Signal fading on radio traffic reports (AP)
AP – For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as…
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Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails
Details of a university inquiry into e-mails stolen from one of the UK’s leading climate…
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School closure could reduce swine flu transmission by 21 percent, European study finds
A survey carried out in eight European countries has shown that closing schools in the…
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New computer virus disguised as social security administration download
A new spam campaign using false e-mails made to look like messages from the Social…
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Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug
The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in…
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3-D software gives doctors, students a view inside the body
Researchers have developed technology that turns flat medical scans into vibrant 3-D images that can…
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Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets
Researchers have developed a new approach for genetics in human cells and used this technique…
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Wide heads give hammerhead sharks exceptional stereo view
Why hammerhead sharks have their distinctively shaped heads has puzzled scientists for generations, but now…