Dog parks are a great place to socialize dogs and let them play, but they also have some hidden dangers, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 17, 2013 not rated yet 0

Many kinds of cinnamon, cinnamon-flavored foods, beverages and food supplements in the United States use a form of the spice that contains high levels of a natural substance that may cause liver damage in ...

Chemistry - Other

May 08, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

The study, which focuses on the process by which these cells renew and increase in number, could help research to find new treatments.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 02, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

High levels of polluting chemicals which are used as flame retardants have been detected in the livers of sparrowhawks in the UK. So-called PBDEs (Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers) are a group of 209 closely ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 26, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —A range of diseases and conditions, from asthma to liver disease, could be diagnosed and monitored quickly and painlessly just by breathing, using gas sensing technology developed by a Cambridge ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Apr 25, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

As many as one in 50 people around the world is infected with some type of hepacivirus or pegivirus, including up to 200 million with hepatitis C virus (HCV), a leading cause of liver failure and liver cancer. There has been ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

An international agreement to protect sharks could spell trouble for one tsunami-wrecked port in Japan as it struggles back to its feet two years after being swept away, locals say.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

Raman spectroscopy has enabled incredible advances in numerous scientific fields and is a powerful tool for tissue classification and disease recognition, although there have been considerable challenges to using the method ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Feb 19, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

A natural trigger that enables stem cells to become any cell-type in the body has been discovered by scientists.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have devised a way to detect whether cells previously transplanted into a living animal are alive or dead, an innovation they say is likely to speed the development of cell replacement ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Feb 05, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

Each intravenous drug user contracting Hepatitis C is likely to infect around 20 other people with the virus, half of these transmissions occurring in the first two years after the user is first infected, a new study estimates.

Biology - Other

Jan 31, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

It was in trying to answer a question related to the functioning of our biological clock that a team lead by Ueli Schibler, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has developed a method whose applications ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 31, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed the first synthetic compound that can reverse the effects of a serious metabolic condition known as fatty liver disease. ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 19, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

Chromatin remodeling—the packaging and unpackaging of genomic DNA and its associated proteins—regulates a host of fundamental cellular processes including gene transcription, DNA repair, programmed cell ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Nov 29, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—In a world-first, researchers from the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney have developed a nanoparticle that could improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Nov 20, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |