BARCELONA, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - NT-KO-003, developed by Advancell and Neurotec Pharma, is the first MS drug with neuroprotective effects that does not cause immunosuppression. - This…

Habituation is when people lose interest in something after being repeatedly exposed to it (insert your favorite joke about being married here). When it comes to diet, it is hypothesized that…

Modern tissue engineering techniques could enable the development and production of meat grown, or ‘cultured’, in the lab. This research into in vitro meat (see figure 1 for an example) has its roots…

     Alcohol is a class of organic compounds with -OH (hydroxyl) group attached to the hydrocarbon chain.  The hydrocarbon chain got its hydroxyl group through replacement of…

In Science Could Have It all Wrong, Ethan comes to the conclusion that we should all trust the experts. The most controversial bit is surely where he takes the impressive successes of modern…

Militant progressives in academia are determined to fix a problem that does not exist - how to get more females in science.    Despite there being no gender difference in math scores for…

The title is not a tease but is an exercise in abstraction. I spend most of my free mind time thinking about one or the other of these two subjects. Can I find any overlap in the research going on in…

It's impossible to imagine a science audience is not excited about "The Avengers".  Marvel, who throughout the 1980s and 1990s could do nothing right, has now taken great pains to do nothing…

Ignaz Venetz - Climate Change Pioneer Climate has always changed - but we have not always known it. Events following 1816 - the year without a summer - led to a major controversy in which the…

Sen. Tom Coburn, the kind of funding watchdog Congressman everyone says members of Congress should be unless he is attacking their funding (in which case they want their state to have a Barbara Boxer…