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Fabled 'vegetable lamb' plant contains potential treatment for osteoporosis

once believed to bear fruit that ripened into a living baby sheep — produces substances that show promise in laboratory experiments as new treatments for osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease. That's the conclusion of a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1




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Indians and Europeans share a milky past

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge University researchers have discovered that lactose tolerant milk-drinkers in India and Europe could be related to the same person who lived at some point in the last 10,000 years.

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists teach Australian marsupial to aid in its own survival

Ever since its arrival in Australia, the poisonous cane toad has been killing native predators such as the northern quoll, a cat-sized marsupial. Now scientists have found a clever way to save the endangered quoll: training ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Study shows male erectile dysfunction drug enhances fetal growth in female sheep

A joke among two Texas AgriLife Research scientists later turned into a fully-funded study found Viagra can aid fetal development in female sheep. Female sheep (ewes) are an agriculturally important species, which can serve ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Why newborn babies can't walk

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first steps of an infant is a real milestone in the development of all mammals including humans, but little is known about why some animals can walk soon after birth, while others need ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 16 weblog

Fertility doctor says he's on the brink of cloning human: report

A US-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women in an interview published Wednesday.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 16

Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Catheter helps get oxygen to blood when lungs aren't working

When Kelli Justice walked into her baby's room at Kentucky Children's Hospital, it was terrifying.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Synthesizing the most natural of all skin creams

Even after nine months soaking in the womb, a newborn's skin is smooth - unlike an adult's in the bath. While occupying a watery, warm environment, the newborn manages to develop a skin fully equipped to protect ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Italian doctor says he has cloned three babies

A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed in an interview to have cloned three babies who are now living in eastern Europe.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Gene by gene, scientists dig for the triggers

James Thomson knew that to send a cell back to its past was no trivial matter. Like generations of biologists, the University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell pioneer had been taught that development was a one-way street; it ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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