Blue eyes -- A clue to paternity
...ther. It is therefore reasonable to expect that a man would be more attracted towards a woman displaying a trait that increases his paternal confidence, and the likelihood that he could uncover his partner's sexual infidelity. Eighty-eight male and female students were asked to rate facial attractiven...Male contraception: One door opens, another closes
... of surprises. Clearly in the case of miglustat, a man is not a mouse," he adds. Next? So with Adjudin showing positive results--but in rats--and miglustat no longer an option, will men see a new contraceptive in the near future? "The trick is to make sure we follow up on the leads we have," says...Sea urchin genome is a biology boon and a computational feat
...iny, spineless creature a closer genetic cousin to man than the fruit fly or worm, more widely studied model organisms. Results from the sequencing project are published in a special six-article section of Science. Other surprises from the project: Urchins have the most sophisticated innate immune syste...What's the difference between mice and men?
It's often said that a man shares 30% of his genes with a banana, rather more...be possible to swap regulatory sequences to turn a man into a banana, or even into a mouse, examination of these sequences may tell us how different organi...How diet, obesity and even gum disease may affect immune system and cancer
... with prostate cancer. But we have found that if a man develops prostate cancer, being obese could put him at a higher risk of dying from the cancer. There is something many men can do about that." She and her co-workers are exploring the underlying mechanisms that link being overweight and/or obese to...Diet can provide protection against development of certain cancers, new studies show
...from eating animal fats, doesn't control whether a man develops prostate cancer, but lower levels of these lipids may help protect against aggressive forms of the disease. The researchers say these studies provide some of the strongest links found to date between diet and cancer. Childhood soy intake a...Neanderthal genome sequencing yields surprising results and opens a new door to future studies
...leton would eventually be dubbed the "Neanderthal" man and its discovery generated enormous public curiosity and scientific debate that have continued for the past 150 years. Starting around 1997, scientists began applying genetic technology to the study of Neanderthals. Research led by Svante Pbo...... Palmer was a doctor with a reputation as a ladies man whose unhealthy addiction to gambling and the horses resulted in serious debt problems. He first came to notoriety while working at Stafford infirmary when, during a drinking game, he was accused of poisoning an acquaintance. Although nothing was ev...World's largest flower evolved from family of much tinier blooms
...arable evolutionary growth, Davis says, an average man would end up some 146 meters tall, roughly the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Because rafflesia lacks the genes most commonly used to trace plant ancestry, the scientists delved deeper into the genome, looking at some 11,500 base pairs of DNA ......ch of these men were matched with a similarly aged man from the original pool of men who didn't develop c...ancer was associated with the number of siblings a man had and whether he was older or younger than his brothers and sisters. As in their previous study, t...Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain
...a first generation African immigrant or a European man carrying an African Y chromosome introduced into Britain some time earlier, or even whether the hgA1 Y chromosome goes back as far as the Roman occupation. "This study shows that what it means to be British is complicated and always has been," says ...Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive
... neck and head. He likened the effect to that of a man in a tuxedo pinning on a red carnation. Unlike some other types of animals, human preference for particular penguin species does not seem to be driven by a "cuteness" factor. The four books Stokes examined were published in the last decade and wer...Marshfield Clinic's electronic health record first to receive CCHIT certification
...t, for example, recreates a scenario of an elderly man with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension and other chronic conditions in order to test EHR functions such as potential adverse drug reactions, disease management and treatment plans. ...Nanotechnology key to China's future economic success
...uch like the race to be the first country to put a man on the moon. China and the U.S. are both big players in the nanotech race. Each faces a number of significant competitive challenges and collaborative opportunities, including the need for internationally coordinated risk research strategies and effe...Prehistoric origins of stomach ulcers uncovered
...present in the human digestive system since modern man migrated from Africa over 60,000 years ago. The research, published online today (7 February) by the journal Nature, not only furthers our understanding of a disease causing bacteria but also offers a new way to study the migration and diversificatio...Out of Africa -- bacteria, as well
When man made his way out of Africa some 60,000 years ago t...h causes gastritis in many people today. Together, man and the bacterium spread throughout the entire world. This is the conclusion reached by an internati...Fatal attraction: Elephants and marula fruit
...C-rich Marula fruits are much sought after by both man and animals. It is a stable "wild food" and base for the popular Amarula liquor. But Marula has separate male and female trees so fruiting females attract browsing elephants, which cause damage to branches and bark. Recent research in Hluhluwe-Umfo...Treating male infertility with stem cells
...logy. When a couple experiences infertility, the man is just as likely as the woman to be the cause. Male infertility may arise from failed proliferation and differentiation of the germ cells (precursors of sperm) or from dysfunction of the supporting cells. New research is looking to stem cells as a m...NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...e, brain disease? What prevents them? Does being a man or a woman or pregnant affect what is good or bad for you to eat? Does it matter in picking your diet if you are African American, Jewish or Italian? Whats up with all this uncertainty? The reason is that the molecular biology of nutrition is very co...Too much weight spells double trouble for couples trying to conceive
...regnancy delays. The combination of an underweight man and obese woman was associated with a risk of sub-fertility nearly four times higher (3.79) compared to a normal weight couple, although we have to treat this figure with caution as there were only 22 couples in this category. The researchers also ...