A possible flu outbreak in the U.S. and Mexico has health officials across the globe keeping an eye on developments.
It’s the perfect time to remind everyone that the biggest weapon we all have is simply washing our hands as often as possible.
Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organzation, said on Saturday that the [...]
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1 moose, 2 moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species
FAIRBANKS, Alaska—It is a misinterpretation of the application of the bedrock of scientific naming with regard to the number of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic Biology, seeks to correct.
The adoption of Carl Linnaeus’ two-part, genus-species system of naming, called taxonomy, has been [...]
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Scientists from Texas AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) are part of a consortium of researchers who have developed an annotated sequence of the cattle genome which could lead to better disease resistance and higher quality meat for consumers, the researchers say. Their work was led [...]
This artist’s animation depicts STEREO’s COR1 imager capturing a coronal mass ejection as it erupts from the sun and speeds toward Earth.
Credit: Walt Feimer, NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center
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posted in Culture, Headlines, SMAll African Pygmies, inhabiting a large territory extending west-to-east along Central Africa, descend from a unique population who lived around 20,000 years ago, according to an international study led by researchers at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. The research, published April 10 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, concludes that the ancestors of present-day African [...]
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Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, USA, report in the journal Development (dev.biologists.org) the successful generation from human embryonic stem cells of a type of cell that can make myelin, a finding that opens up new possibilities for both basic and clinical research.
The cells the researchers made are called oligodendrocytes, which are responsible for making [...]