The Health Department says more than 80 percent of New York City restaurants are now trans-fat free.

Medicine & Health - Health

Jul 01, 2007 1 / 5 (3) 0

Ant expert Edward O. Wilson, in Washington for National Pollinator Week, is warning extinctions in the insect world could threaten life as we know it.

Biology -

Jul 01, 2007 4.1 / 5 (12) 0

In the last 40 years, scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structure of enzymes, but they’ve been stumped trying to translate the structure into an understanding of function – what the enzyme actually ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jul 01, 2007 4.2 / 5 (13) 0

New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early on-line edition of the journal Nature Physics on 1 July 2007 and wi ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 01, 2007 4.5 / 5 (245) 0

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a novel strategy to expand the natural repertoire of 20 amino acids in mammalian cells, including neurons, and successfully inserted tailor-made amino ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Jul 01, 2007 4.3 / 5 (12) 0

In what they call a “stunning research advance,” investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jul 01, 2007 4.6 / 5 (46) 0

As a fertilized egg develops into a full grown adult, mammalian cells make many crucial decisions — closing doors of opportunity as they adopt careers as liver cells, skin cells, or neurons. One of the most fundamental ...

Biology -

Jul 01, 2007 4.8 / 5 (19) 0

A research team led by University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists has identified a potential biological target for pancreatic cancer, a finding they say could help scientists better understand -- and eventually treat -- the ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Jul 01, 2007 3.5 / 5 (2) 0