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Mice carrying a "humanized version" of a gene believed to influence speech and language may not actually talk, but they nonetheless do have a lot to say about our evolutionary past, according to a report in the May 29th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.

As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMaster University researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic. read more

Here's one more reason to keep your teeth healthy. read more

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the contolled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.

Here’s an astronomical curiosity, and technical achievement, that a few outlets picked up this week. Astronomers using the CoRoT satellite a little more than two years ago discovered a now-commonly-known “hot jupiter” planet, this one circline its star about 1,600 light years away and soon dubbe CoRoT-1b. Now further study of its signal’s variation in [...]

Two studies in the May 29th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, have taken advantage of new technological advances to search for and find previously unknown weaknesses in a hard to treat form of cancer. The discoveries lend new hope in the fight again tumors that are today considered "undruggable." read more

We have been depleting fish stocks not just for decades but for many centuries, according to a new historical survey

Once a taboo subject, our knowledge of female sexuality has come along in leaps and bounds over the last few years. New Scientist reveals some of the most significant findings

New Zealand press reported, and wires have picked up, word that beached on the northern tip of South Island in New Zealand is the shark-nibbled carcass of a blue whale. At about 70 feet long it is the largest whale anybody there can remember finding on a beach. The best, local account The Tracker can [...]

We have been depleting fish stocks not just for decades but for many centuries, according to a new historical survey

Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contractile ring works to divide the cell may facilitate development of therapies to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer. read more

Let us first consider a silly, and rather harmlessly so, rendition in the UK of the news from Japan on a new tribe of gene-shuffled laboratory marmosets carrying the jellyfish green flourescent protein gene in its germinal and somatic cells alike. The formal report is in Nature. In a paroxysm of boffinistics The Register’s Lewis [...]