Brown and white fat cells in a living organism can be converted from one cell type to the other, according to a study using mice as a model organism. Two types of fat cells are found in mammals:…

ATLAS has just produced a very nice new study of jet production in Z-boson events. I will describe a sample graph below, but before I do I find it useful to explain to the less knowledgeable among…

Cloned fruit is widely sold in grocery stores.  Some of it is even cloned mutant fruit.  None of these fruits are labeled as such.  They aren't even regulated. You can't avoid this…

A drug developed by Gilead Sciences and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio suppresses hepatitis B virus infection by stimulating the immune system and…

Cancer cells that can break out of a tumor and invade other organs are more aggressive and nimble than nonmalignant cells. Such cells exert greater force on their environment and can more easily…

Reuters gets dinged for being off-kilter journalistically when it comes to politics; to the current generation of independent voters they became famous for their Mid-East coverage last decade by…

Trigemina, a company focused on creating non-narcotic pain relief drugs, is enrolling patients in a Phase II clinical trial of inhaled oxytocin to treat chronic migraine. Trigemina's oxytocin product…

Content Is King Whether writing or making videos, create content that will appeal to your chosen demographic and then make it fun.  Even better: present it in Dave's unique non-scripted overly…

One weekend each April, Duke University Alumni trek hundreds of miles back to Durham, North Carolina to see their former classmates and the changes on campus, and participate in numerous scheduled…

The latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center says sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in…