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24.10.2006 - For those of us with dozens of moles, the spots speckling our skin can seem no more significant than freckles. But it turns out, each mole is a tumor of pigment cells that started on a path to cancer and then stopped. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - If the fossil Lucy, the most famous woman from out of the deep human past, had a child, it might have looked a lot like the bundle of skull and bones uncovered by scientists digging in the badlands of Ethiopia. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A federal jury has ruled in favor of Merck & Co. in a lawsuit over the painkiller Vioxx, finding there was not enough evidence to link the drug to a Kentucky man's heart attack. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - An aftershock from the bitter takeover battle for Guidant early this year has occurred in a federal court in Manhattan. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Researchers have found that smokers may be at higher risk for becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Although the brain mechanisms behind hysterical illness are still not fully understood, new studies have started to bring the mind back into the body by identifying the physical evidence of one of the most elusive, controversial and enduring illnesses. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History have determined that a predatory dinosaur on display, Coelophysis bauri, had not eaten one of own kind after all. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - French doctors carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Roger Kornberg, an American whose father was awarded a Nobel Prize nearly 50 years ago, on Wednesday was given the prize in chemistry for studies that could provide insight into battling cancer. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A first clinical trial shows promise that the female hormone progesterone may help people survive a serious brain injury. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Cardiologists across Italy and in other parts of Europe would consider it malpractice not to give heart attack patients a prescription for fish oil, which has two Omega-3 fatty acids. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - In the quest for other worlds beyond the solar system, astronomers keep turning up planetary systems with curiouser and curiouser traits. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A $10 million prize for cheap and rapid sequencing of the human genome was announced by the X Prize Foundation of Santa Monica, California. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Scientists are surprised to find that, in many cases, a single factor - undetected cardiovascular disease - is often a major reason people become frail. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A small California biotech company says it has successfully found the Holy Grail of the $35 billion pet industry: a hypoallergenic cat. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - What can stand on its hind legs and duke it out with its front feet, boxing and tussling like a four-armed pugilist? The answer: a strain of laboratory fruit flies bred for shameless aggressiveness toward their own kind. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Spread by mosquitoes, the virus chikungunya has been sweeping through southern India and islands in the Indian Ocean, and late last month the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said travelers had carried it to Europe and the United States. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - If rodents in Spain are any guide, periodic changes in Earth's orbit may account for the apparent regularity with which new species of mammals emerge and then go extinct. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The drugs most commonly used to soothe agitation and aggression in people with Alzheimer's disease are no more effective than placebos for most patients and put them at risk of serious side effects. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Public health experts charged with overseeing the global effort to eradicate polio are shining a spotlight on the handful of countries that are still persistently failing to immunize every child, particularly Nigeria and India. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - In a country with a dreary environmental record that is engaged in a rush to extract its resources, the Kamchatka peninsula's governments are at work on proposals that would designate seven sprawling tracts of wilderness as protected areas for salmon. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Shing-Tung Yau's story is a window into the dynamics that prevail in China as 5,000 years of Middle Kingdom tradition tries to mix with postmodern science. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - U.S. drug regulators have approved a new diabetes medicine from Merck that is expected to become a blockbuster treatment used by millions of people worldwide. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The honeybee, hummingbird, and bat are said to be "demonstrably" declining in the United States and Canada, a phenomenon that could affect various ecosystems, including the food supply. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A provocative review paper published this month has raised questions about the aggressive cholesterol-lowering recommendations made two years ago by a U.S. government panel. Read more…
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