In a joint research project, scientists from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed and created tiny 'nanoworms'. These miniature devices can be navigated through blood vessels
A research team led by Professor Zafar Bashir at Bristol University, UK has identified molecular and cellular mechanisms important for recognition and memory. In an experiment conducted on rats, the team demonstrated that disrupting the brain's ability to change, causes
How did frogs and salamanders evolve? This question, long-debated by biologists, has been answered by a team of researchers that includes U of T Mississauga professor Robert Reisz and research assistant Diane Scott. Their discovery, based on the study of
Teenagers are often pressured into lighting up their first cigarette by their friends, but a new study finds that total strangers persuade smokers to quit. Whether you smoke depends not only on your friends and family, but also on the
News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery.
Launch of NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is targeted for Tuesday, June 3, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT.
Oregon State University) An international team of scientists surveying the waters of the continental shelf off the West Coast of North America has discovered for the first time high levels of acidified ocean water within 20 miles of the shoreline,
Gravitationally speaking, the moon is a strange place. Satellites in lunar orbit feel odd, sideways tugs and end up nose down in the moondust. Astronauts standing in the middle of lunar lava seas weigh more than they do standing on
Has the era of high tech embryo profiling arrived? I have been following the recent study published in the journal Human Reproduction. Researchers have combined the technology that allows them to screen embryos at the blastocyst stage with the DNA
An obscure bill that sailed through Congress and was signed into law last month is stoking fears of a nationwide DNA warehouse potentially open to abuse by law enforcement agencies or health insurance companies. (Wired)
