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Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Typically, a deep study of a genus or family can uncover a new species or two. But when it comes to micro mollusks, it turns out, the opportunity for discovery is much greater—if researchers are willing to do the painstaking work required. After ten years of research, two scientists commissioned by [...]

source It’s no secret that calcium is important for the development of strong and healthy bones, especially in young growing bodies. But research presented by North Carolina State University suggests that it may also play a significant role in the prevention of obesity later in life. Scientists at NCSU conducted an 18-day trial in which [...]

Photo: Flickr It’s no wonder that kids are blowing up like balloons more every year. According to Kids Health, the percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate–one out of three kids are now considered overweight or obese. And even worse, a new study released by the National Cancer [...]

I was recently emailed an article that illustrates the obscene amount of perfectly edible food families collectively toss out each day. You probably already knew that humans on a whole are a pretty wasteful species, but it’s still shocking to see just how much we really throw away. source While the study itself focuses on [...]

Photo via WLS Channel An eye-opening study profiled in the New York Times reveals that some girls in the United States are hitting puberty at abnormally early ages — sometimes at 7 or 8 years old. There are a number of suspected causes for this potentially dangerous trend, chief among them childhood obesity and exposure [...]

Patients with glaucoma appear to have more rapid visual field change if they are older or if they have abnormal levels of anticardiolipin antibody (an antibody directed against a certain protein in the body), according to a report posted online today that will appear in the October print issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of [...]

For many people, worrying about arsenic poisoning is akin to worrying about catching the bubonic plague. They mistakenly believe that it’s something only found in history books. Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is, even in today’s world, arsenic poisoning is still a very real concern. source In fact, certain forms of arsenic are found [...]

source Readers of my blog probably won’t be surprised to hear that blueberries and probiotic bacteria are a great way to help the body naturally defend itself against intestinal disease. Still, it’s always nice to see more scientific research making its way into the mainstream media. This latest clinical study, conducted at Lund University in [...]

The authors of a recent study1 published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine concluded that the T-SPOT.TB test is better than the tuberculin skin test (TST) at predicting which patients will develop active TB. There are significant practical difficulties in designing studies to show the predictive value of assays for the [...]

AmStem Corporation (OTCBB: AMST), a leading provider of biotherapeutic and cosmetic stem cell products, stem cell collection and storage expertise and access to nanotechnology vital to stem cell research, announced positive early results from its preliminary consumer study of SteMixx™. David Stark, President of AmStem International, Inc. said, “During the first few days, we asked [...]