When your famous exports are Italian mobsters, meatball hoagies, and the horrid track suit + gold chain look, and more recently corrupt mayors/rabbis, you pounce on anything that can give you a…

How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper, 2nd ed.  by Björn Gustavii link Copyright Gustavii 2003, 2008 ISBN-13978-0-511-39463-8 About the Author BJÖRN GUSTAVII became an editor of Acta…

Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why…

The Rocky Mountains command this part of the world. Vast, humbling, magestic, they define this part of the world. Vertically, they soar above 14,440 feet or 4,401 meters. Spanning 40 degrees of…

A deadly new airborne wheat rust disease threatens wheat production and food security throughout Afghanistan. The disease also threatens the region that stretches east across neighboring Pakistan and…

Often the topic of controversy, stem cells research has once again proved itself necessary. University of Florida researchers were able to program bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in…

The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins keep them from aggregating and clumping. If this protection fails, the lens blurs and the patient…

Every day we make a multitude of decisions based on the consequences of our actions; goal-orientated responses. In an always changing environment this capacity is crucial but, because it is complex,…

Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day…

Stem cell researchers trying to understand the mechanisms that determine whether stem cells divide or differentiate, and what types of cells they become and how to control them to develop new…