LIfe Sciences News
Walking while talking on the cell phone can be hazardous
Two new studies of pedestrian safety found that using a cell phone while hoofing it can endanger ones health. And older pedestrians talking on cell phones are particularly impaired in crossing a busy (simulated) street, the researchers found.
Published Date: November 16, 2009
First draft of the pig: Researchers sequence swine genome
A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution.
Published Date: November 2, 2009
Researchers to perform sex change operation on papaya
The complicated sex life of the papaya is about to get even more interesting, thanks to a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Published Date: November 2, 2009
Amphetamine use in adolescence may impair adult working memory
Rats exposed to high doses of amphetamines at an age that corresponds to the later years of human adolescence display significant memory deficits as adults long after the exposure ends, researchers report.
Published Date: October 21, 2009
Single-stranded DNA-binding protein proven dynamic, critical to DNA repair
Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded DNA, gradually allowing other proteins to repair, recombine or replicate the strands.
Published Date: October 21, 2009
Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods
Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists going back to Charles Darwin hypothesized, but in a wooded landscape.
Published Date: October 8, 2009
