SAO PAULO, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the federal government's decision to reduce the anhydrous ethanol content of gasoline from 25…

Scientists have just identified several molecules capable of reversing the brain abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease (PD), while also uncovering new clues for its origin in a study just published in…

As if taken by a spell, my joking claim to be on strike in the last post grew to become one of the longest streaks of absence from blogging of the last few months, for a series of irrelevant reasons…

It's conventional thinking that the recent years, in which affective mental illnesses such as depression have been routinely considered alongside non-mental ("physiological") illness, instead of as a…

If you are unsure what a buzzword is, please first read:The Buzzword Blog #2 : What is a Buzzword? The Buzzword Blog #6 : CustomerThe word 'customer' comes via old French from the Latin consuetudinem…

The annual AAAS conference is being held next month in San Diego and I went last year (here and here and here) , despite it being a Chicago February, but most of you did not, thus the reason for the…

TORONTO, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (TTI), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative immune-based biologics, today announced that it has entered into a definitive…

Connecting my earlier post on PhD job realities and Melissa's blog post on Entitlement Culture is today's Ph.D comic (by Jorge Cham): Alex, the Daytime Astronomer Tues and Fri here, via RSS feed, and…

MARLOW, England, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDespatch, the web-technology innovator for the express transport sector, has reported a 100 per cent increase in business over the last year. This…

LONDON, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideaworks Labs today begins selling licenses to independent developers for Airplay SDK 4.0, the unique cross-platform native SDK for rich mobile applications and…