News articles tagged with 'human'
Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars
— 2 Dec 2011 10:26 | BiologyThe astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?…
Snake spills venomous secrets
— 17 Nov 2011 17:49 | BiologyExamining venom from a variety of poisonous snakes, a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has discovered why the bite of one small black, yellow and…
Archeologists investigate Ice Age hominins' adaptability to climate change
— 17 Nov 2011 17:40 | Geology and palaeontologyComputational modelling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights…
New 'smart' material could help tap medical potential of tissue-penetrating light
— 16 Nov 2011 21:39 | ChemistryScientists are reporting development and successful initial testing of the first practical 'smart' material that may supply the missing link in efforts to use in medicine a form of…
Contagious yawning evidence of empathy, not just sleepiness or boredom
— 9 Apr 2011 11:55 | BiologyContagious yawning is not just a marker of sleepiness or boredom. For chimpanzees, it may actually be a sign of a social connection between individuals. New research at the Yerkes National…
World's reef fishes tussling with human overpopulation
— 6 Apr 2011 17:46 | EnvironmentIn an unprecedented collaborative analysis published in the journal PLoS Biology, scientists from 49 nations demonstrated that the ability of reef fish systems to produce goods and…
Getting to the root of fatty liver disease
— 6 Apr 2011 17:25 | HealthResearchers have identified a molecular switch that appears to be a common feature in the development of fatty liver disease. The discovery made in mice is consistent with data from…
Chimp, bonobo study sheds light on the social brain
— 6 Apr 2011 16:55 | BiologyIt's been a puzzle why our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have widely different social traits, despite belonging to the same genus. Now, a comparative…
In hungry flies, sense of smell grows keener
— 1 Apr 2011 15:33 | BiologyWhen fruit flies are hungry, they become especially attuned to the scent of their next good meal, according to a report in the April 1st issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication. That…
Human embryonic stem cells provide new insight into muscular dystrophy
— 1 Apr 2011 15:30 | HealthMyotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common inherited muscular dystrophy in adults. New research published by Cell Press online on March 31st in the journal Cell Stem Cell, uses…