Is My Cat’s Pee Normal? As a cat owner, you may have noticed that your feline friend doesn’t exactly come with an instruction manual, especially when it comes to health matters. While cats are often more discreet about their habits ...
Few challenges loom as large in medical research as neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and the like have long confounded the brightest minds in neuroscience. In this complex landscape, visionary philanthropists offer hope by funding research and transforming the approach to ...
Slip and fall accidents can occur due to numerous factors. For example, wet or uneven surfaces, poor lighting conditions, or faulty handrails could be the cause. Weather conditions like snow and ice also often become potential hazard creators. By staying ...
Students taking courses in the life science often think of biology courses as focusing on practical experiments, including everything from germinating seeds to dissecting small animals. This can leave many students unprepared for the challenges that they will face when ...
An estimated 195,000 deaths are caused by burns every year and are primarily caused by heat or radiation due to contact with chemicals, electricity or friction (WHO). Of these figures, nowhere is burn injury more prevalent than in the modern ...
In the movie, “Inner Space” (1987) actor Dennis Quaid was shrunk to microscopic size and entered the body of actor Martin Short with comical consequences. True to form what began was an exciting science fiction journey within the human body ...
Researcher working with volunteers during the experiment (Credit: Anglia Ruskin University) A recent study, conducted researchers from the UK and Swiss shows that information about heartbeat can be used to change how people experience their own body and self and ...
electron micrograph of herpes simplex virus type 1 infecting a cell (Credit: Carnegie Mellon) Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University measured, for the first time, the pressure inside human herpes simplex virus 1 proving a long held theory that herpes viruses ...
A stained vertical wild-type retinal section (left) and a schematic representation of retinal tissue (right). (image from Cell reports under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works license) Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a ...
Dr. Segev Barak Researchers from the Tel Aviv University in Israel and the University of California, San Francisco demonstrated a potential new way to treat alcoholism by selectively erasing or manipulating memories. Alcohol abuse is a global problem with severe ...