HAIFA, Israel, December 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the ORL), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced that on December 24, 2008 Carmel Olefins Ltd. (a 50% held private…

A British company says they have a solution to the over 22,000 tons of hazardous waste that ends up in UK landfills annually from Alkaline batteries that are thrown away after being used in toys and…

During an autoimmune disease, the endogenous defence system (the immune system) loses the ability to distinguish between "self" and "foreign".     As a consequence, the immune system…

As I discussed in my last post, the principle of limiting similarity suggests that species that can coexist must be somewhat different in their requirements for survival.  This

Since 1899, when acetylsalicylic acid was named "aspirin" in Germany, the emphasis has been placed on its properties. There is a new wind on the subject -- a medical cyclone seems to be brewing in…

People can make their own salicylic acid (SA), the principal metabolite of aspirin. SA that gives aspirin its famous action on pain, fever, and inflammation is now looking like a star in its own "…

Go ahead and admit it, you would have been stumped if the answer wasn't in the title, right?   There isn't much a Democrat President-elect, an old white Republican war veteran and an insane…

In a closed system (and the biosphere as a whole is a closed system) the only way to generate additional species is through evolution.  While the evolution of new species is a necessary…

Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.   This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing…

JetBrains, creators of intelligent and innovative productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, have announced the Beta version of their new product - Meta Programming System, or MPS. Meta…