Junk food makes rats lose appetite for balanced diet
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Aug-2014 A diet of junk food not only makes rats fat, but also reduces their appetite for novel foods, a preference that normally drives them to seek…
Whooping cough ‘evolves to beat vaccine’
80 per cent of the 2012 whooping cough cases in Australia were from a strain not covered by the vaccine. PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 15-Apr-2014 Â The bacterium that causes whooping cough,…
A new — and reversible — cause of aging
A naturally produced compound rewinds aspects of age-related demise in mice - Gomes found that by administering an endogenous compound that cells transform into NAD, she could repair the…
Researchers find a cause of aging that can be reversed
- "It was a very pronounced effect," says Dr Turner. "It's something like a 60-year-old being similar to a 20-year-old on some measures." Medical researchers have found a cause…
Bacteria adapt and evade nanosilver’s sting
08 May 2013 Researchers from UNSW have cautioned that more work is needed to understand how micro-organisms respond to the disinfecting properties of silver nano-particles, increasingly used in consumer goods,…
Landmark climate change report leaked online
Draft of IPCC's fifth assessment, due to be published in September 2013, leaked online by climate sceptic Alex Rawls Leo Hickman guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 December 2012 09.07 EST The BoA…
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