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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found the mechanism used by neural stem cells to continue growing and multiplying without changing their stem cell state.
HARTFORD — The chances of state legislators meeting Tuesday in special session to reduce the budget deficit moved to somewhere between slim and none Friday as majority Democrats in the Senate met privately to discuss alternatives to Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s deficit-reduction plan.
The science aims to manipulate human DNA.
Americans are known for gorging on food, but we're also gluttons of another sort: A new study finds that the average American consumes more than 34 gigabytes of video, music and words a day-and that's only on our free time.
In partnership with the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American Association for Cancer Research will host the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer, which will bring together leaders from all over the world who share the goal of eradicating this form of cancer.
Emmy-winner Beau Bridges plays a transsexual detective on tonight’s episode of The Closer, and Uinterview sat down with the actor to talk about getting into the role, wearing women’s clothing, and his respect for people who are contemplating a sex change.
Hundred gather on Clematis Street in West Palm to help cop with Lou Gehrig's Disease
According to New York Magazine’s The Cut, the next season of America's Next Top Model will feature a new judge, Vogue’s editor at large, Andre Leon Talley.
Marijuana use increased among high school students in 2009 even though teens cut down on cigarettes, binge drinking and using methamphetamine.
Books on climate change, evolution, astronomy, marine biology and more round out this year's list of tomes for a high-IQ Christmas.
Dennis deLeon, president of the Latino Commission on AIDS and former New York City human rights commissioner, passed away at the age of 61 on Monday in Manhattan.
Looking for a gift for a brainiac close to your heart? Books on climate change, evolution, astronomy, marine biology and more round out this year?s list of tomes for a high-IQ Christmas.
Martyn Amos blogs about his recent visit to the Wellcome Collection , the Wellcome Trust's museum of genetically interesting bric-a-brac, such as Charles Darwin's walking stick and droppings from Dolly the sheep (seriously).
The University of California, Irvine's evolutionary biologist and geneticist Francisco Ayala has a new book out called Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion -- and Jonathan Eisen is relieved that someone besides Francis Collins is discussing religion and science.
At his blog, Freelancing Science, Pawel Szczêsny decides to elaborate on his job as a "freelance scientist," at least as it's playing out in his native Poland.
In PLoS One , researchers used genome-wide miRNA expression profiling on human embryonic stem cells to find several miRNAs that are involved in the differentiation process.
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