Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:February 27, 2013
A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized (by frying foods in reused oil, eating lots of polyunsaturated fats, or smoking).
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:
February 27, 2013
Author:
Sharita Forrest, News Editor
Published Date:February 27, 2013
Advancements in the use of computed tomography (also known as CT) imaging by researchers at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital are enabling them to diagnose life-threatening conditions in dogs and cats faster, dramatically affecting the course, outcomes and costs of treatment.
Author:
Sharita Forrest, News Editor
Published Date:
February 27, 2013
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:February 25, 2013
From the point of view of its ultimate (human) host, the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni has a gruesome way of life. It hatches in feces-tainted water, grows into a larva in the body of a snail and then burrows through human skin to take up residence in the veins. Once there, it grows into an adult, mates and, if its female, starts laying eggs. It can remain in the body for decades.
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:
February 25, 2013
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:February 19, 2013
Infectious honey bees and cockroaches out to take down humans will be the cinematic scare fare at this years Insect Fear Film Festival, an event organizers are calling The InsX-Files: The Truth (About Insects) Is Out There.
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:
February 19, 2013
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:February 19, 2013
University of Illinois psychology professor Justin Rhodes and his colleagues found evidence contradicting a popular hypothesis suggesting male spatial superiority is a result of natural selection.
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:
February 19, 2013
Author:
Chelsey Coombs
Published Date:February 18, 2013
It has been almost 20 years since the first genetically modified foods showed up in produce aisles throughout the United States and the rest of the world, but controversy continues to surround the products and their regulation.
Author:
Chelsey Coombs
Published Date:
February 18, 2013
