The Tweed family of 12 siblings have a combined age of nearly 1,020 years and live across the UK. They were presented with their official Guinness World Record certificate this week.
Sydney lawyer and blogger Kate Horman will be one of thousands of Australians to donate her blood to the study which will investigate the genetic implications of anorexia and its links to puberty and menopause.
MUMBAI: A child and two senior citizens succumbed to H1N1 influenza over the last two days, taking the death toll in city hospitals to 42 since January. The count of positive cases though has been steadily going down with 18 people being diagnosed in …
Physicians will now even be expected to swallow the costs of a possible unexpected future infectious disease pandemic. All physicians — for the first time — will compete for an increasingly smaller slice of the pie. Should older physicians remain in …
Eurogentec a custom service and contract manufacturing organization (CMO) announced today that its GMP Drug Substance manufacturing facility has completed the production of 150 grams of plasmid DNA (pDNA). The GMP plasmid was manufactured and …
It's a prescient one, too: in a world where pandemic, incurable outbreaks of disease and their attendant breakdown of social order are a reality we've now come to witness, it underscores the vitality of manga in imagining the twists and turns, the …
“Since the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the CDC has recommended prompt use of antiviral treatment for all hospitalized patients with confirmed or suspected influenza,” the researchers wrote in PLoS One. “Use of antiviral treatment among …
Selfie sticks, right now at least, are still allowed at some other prominent music events, including Sasquatch and Bonnaroo. Some well-known tourist landmarks are mulling a ban, according to reports, and the list includes the Louvre and the Pompidou …
In reaching what Schneiderman's office is calling a “landmark agreement,” the Pennsylvania-based vitamin and supplement chain has agreed to perform DNA barcoding on the “active” plant ingredients used in its products; implement testing for …
In the 1970s, two inhuman creatures—one hairy and tall, another with orange eyes—were spotted in New England. The mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, blamed these monsters not on unreliable testimonies, but recombinant DNA technology, then a new …