Authorities say five people who are apparently related have been found dead inside a Southern California home.
Sheriff’s Lt. Erin Giudice (JOO-duh-say) says the bodies were discovered just before 4 p.m. Sunday at the residence in a gated community in San Clemente. She says a relative made the discovery and called 911.
Giudice says it appears all [...]
OSLO, NORWAY - December 6, 2007 - Opera Software today announced that its Opera Mini browser is now available on phones enabled with Qualcomm’s BREW platform. Built on Opera’s technology, Opera Mini has already been embraced by more than 27 million cumulative users who view more than one billion Web pages every month.
Opera Mini provides [...]
When Dr. Jack Wennberg was chosen to examine medical care in the state of Vermont, he made a surprising discovery.
Medical practice across the state varied enormously — in Middlebury, for instance, only 7 percent of children had their tonsils removed, whereas in Morrisville, 70 percent did. But the Vermonters who lived in towns with more [...]
Paleontologists examining a 500,000-year-old homo erectus skull have found the earliest known evidence of tuberculosis.
The discovery lends support to the theory that dark-skinned people who migrate out of tropical climates tend to have lower levels of vitamin D, which can adversely affect the immune system.
Dark skin protects against the intense ultraviolet radiation of equatorial countries, [...]
The proverbial worm in the apple, the codling moth caterpillar, has been controlled in European orchards for years with a baculovirus called codling moth granulovirus (CpGV).
But in southwest Germany, some organic apple growers noticed that the virus was losing its effectiveness. Pest resistance to chemical insecticides is common in agriculture, but resistance to viruses [...]
The discovery was made after a resident brought insects to the attention of a pest control operator who identified them as kissing bugs. After researching the bug on the Internet, the resident realized the potential for Chagas transmission. Because Dr. Dorn is known in this area as the expert on Chagas disease and her ongoing [...]
Now, for the first time, researchers reporting in the June 2007 issue of Plant Physiology have identified a specific class of small peptide elicitors, or plant defense signals, that help plants react to insect attack.
In this colorful self-defense strategy, proteins already present in the plant are ingested by insect attackers. Digesting the proteins, the [...]
The Society Islands were a biodiversity hot spot for tree snails, containing approximately half of the described species in this land snail family, said Diarmaid %26Oacute; Foighil of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Only a few years ago, it looked like the sole survivors from this radiation would be the captive populations that have [...]
Figuring out how Bt toxins punch holes in the cells of an insect’s gut was the key to designing the new toxins, according to a Mexico-U.S. research team.
Some insects have developed resistance to Bt toxins, naturally occurring insecticides used worldwide to combat pests of crops such as cotton and corn and also disease-carrying mosquitoes. [...]
We’ve now connected a whole class of antipsychotics to natural brain chemicals that trigger appetite, says Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Our identification of the molecular players that link such drugs to increased food intake means there’s now hope for finding a newer generation of drugs [...]