The Unknown Risks Of Animal Tissue Donation

The Unknown Risks Of Animal Tissue Donation

A new article in The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics calls for a change in the regulations surrounding xenotransplantation, the transplanting of animal cells, tissues or organs into humans.…
Watching The Face Of Jupiter Change

Watching The Face Of Jupiter Change

Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes that have never been seen before with the keen "eye" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter's turbulent clouds are always changing as…
Tectonic Signatures On Mars

Tectonic Signatures On Mars

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express has provided snapshots of the Aeolis Mensae region. This area, well known for its wind-eroded features, lies on a tectonic transition…
Sperm abnormalities seen in male lupus patients

Sperm abnormalities seen in male lupus patients

The prognosis for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease that mainly affects women in their reproductive years, has improved recently, prompting a shift toward improving quality of…
Saving Asian Children - The Hib Vaccine

Saving Asian Children - The Hib Vaccine

A new study from Bangladesh published online today in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal shows that routinely vaccinating infants against H. influenzae type b (Hib), a bacterium that causes…
Exercise Stimulates Brain Cells

Exercise Stimulates Brain Cells

Exercise has a similar effect to antidepressants on depression. This has been shown by previous research. Now Astrid Bjørnebekk at Karolinska Institutet has explained how this can happen: exercise…