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Scientists based at the Universities of Bonn and Toulouse in Germany and France have undertaken gene screening and pinpointed mutations in three genes that...
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Scientists based at the Universities of Bonn and Toulouse in Germany and France have undertaken gene screening and pinpointed mutations in three genes that...
Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is an eye and skin disease caused by a worm (filaria) called Onchocerca volvulus. The disease is transmitted to humans through...
The collected data, reported this month by astrophysicists and highlighted by Wired, indicated that a giant cloud of fast-moving plasma from the Sun struck...
Vaccination refers to the administration of antigenic material (the ‘vaccine’) to stimulate an individual’s immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen. The...
Nucleation processes refer to a transitional phase in matter, such as a liquid becoming a gas or a gas becoming a liquid. Here a...
Back in 1966 the magazine Science contained a report from Dr. D. Mark Hegsted that explained fluoridation lessens disease in adults. Those against the...
The focus of testing is with ‘lab-on-a-chip’ technology. This involves the miniaturization of standard laboratory tests and the automation of the test process. In...
Having a genetic predisposition to a weak or defective heart does not mean that an individual is likely to suffer from heart disease, provided...
The best solar cells have an energy conversion efficiency of 30 pecent. This means that 70 percent of the collected energy is lost rather...
The blue mass triggered a high-level of activity on social media (as The Daily Mail reports), leading to some serious and some not-so-serious (aliens!)...