While analyzing Hawaiian monk seal, a highly endangered species living in the Pacific Ocean, researchers were able to identify a potent and highly-debilitating toxin manifesting its effects inside the defenseless animals. The discovery has prompted experts to start investigation other species for signs of the contami... |
8 June 2011
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Researchers have discovered that a type of religious ritual taking place in Mexico is having a direct effect on the fish population on which it is applied. In the southern parts of the country, indigenous populations believe, as they did for centuries, that they must ask the gods for sufficient amounts of rain throug... |
13 September 2010
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A new research carried out by scientists at the University of Nottingham, found out that in Staphylococcus aureus infections, bacteria that do not communicate with their infection-causing partners stop producing toxins.All bacteria work together and have a certain way of communicating – a system called Quorum S... |
6 September 2010
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At one point in our history, a diagnostic of tuberculosis (TB) equaled certain death. With the advent of antibiotics, treating the devastating condition became possible, and some experts were even confident that eradication was a real possibility. But unfortunately, the microorganism causing the disease, called Mycob... |
22 March 2010
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Scientists write in a new study that botulinum injections, of the same type used for cosmetic surgeries and augmentations, may actually be suited for treating some types of migraine headaches. The preliminary results of the investigation show that migraine headache patients refer to as being crushing, vice-like and e... |
16 February 2010
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A new pathological research has demonstrated that herbal medicine can lead to unwanted deaths, especially in people who consume too much of their natural remedies, or who combine such substances with prescription medication. University of Adelaide forensic pathologist Professor Roger Byard underlines the fact that ma... |
10 February 2010
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According to researchers at the University of Dortmund, in Germany, neurotoxicity analysis could become in the very near future a lot faster and easier to perform, and will also return more accurate results. All of this will be made possible by a new microfluidic device (a lab-on-a-chip) that was developed at the Uni... |
29 January 2010
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Since ancient times, people have known that some insects and small animals produce venom. Over the years, they have learned how to use these chemicals to their advantage, either by dipping their spears and arrows in the stuff, or by using it for therapeutic purposes. With the advent of modern technologies, scientists... |
4 December 2009
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Experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have recently developed a new series of structures, constructed entirely out of the relatively new carbon compound graphene and strands of DNA, which is the building block of all living things. The team, which worked cl... |
23 September 2009
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New investigations have revealed an amazing fact about a large number of pathogens – bacteria, microbes and viruses – they carry within them tools that destroy them, and we can make use of them. The find, made by experts at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (FIB) Department of Molecular and Cellula... |
31 July 2009
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