Friday, May 16, 2014 PHILADELPHIA (CN) – The University of Pennsylvania Hospital fired a radiation therapist for helping the mother of a pediatric cancer patient – an Eagles fan – get in touch with the football team to try to… Read More ›
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‘Vegetarians are rapists’: Shocking Facebook posts of U.S. diplomat and his embassy worker wife expelled in slave maid row deepen rift with India
Wayne May and his wife Alicia Muller May were effectively deported last week by Indian authorities The move was apparently in retaliation for the U.S. expulsion of Indian envoy Devyani Khobragade in December But the outrageous comments have only just… Read More ›
Family’s outrage as Ivy League professor set to be released after serving FIVE YEARS for brutally beating wife to death as she wrapped Christmas presents
By Michael Zennie PUBLISHED: 11:24 EST, 17 January 2013 | UPDATED: 13:47 EST, 17 January 2013 The family of a woman brutally beaten to death by her Ivy League professor husband is furious that he is being released after… Read More ›
Metformin leads to an accumulation of AMP, which inhibits an enzyme called adenylate cyclase, thereby reducing levels of cyclic AMP and protein kinase activity: WOOPS
Contact: Karen Kreeger karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu 215-349-5658 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Most-used diabetes drug works in different way than previously thought Findings could lead to diabetes treatments with less side effects PHILADELPHIA – A team, led by senior author Morris… Read More ›
Natural fungus may provide effective bed bug control : Beauveria bassiana
Contact: A’ndrea Elyse Messer aem1@psu.edu 814-865-9481 Penn State IMAGE:This image shows live bed bugs in an artificial harborage in the lab. Click here for more information. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — “And don’t let the bed bugs bite” is no longer… Read More ›
Green tea chemical combined with another may hold promise for treatment of brain disorders: EGCG, can prevent and destroy a variety of protein structures known as amyloids
2009 study posted for filing Contact: patti Jacobs pjacobs12@comcast.net 617-864-2712 Boston Biomedical Research Institute Watertown, MA—Scientists at Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI) and the University of Pennsylvania have found that combining two chemicals, one of which is the green tea… Read More ›
False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research
High-profile cases and modern technology are putting scientific deceit under the microscope Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 September 2012 13.12 EDT The Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel was found to have published fabricated data in 30 peer-reviewed papers. Photograph: Boxem/boxem/Hollandse… Read More ›
Scientists create a virus that reproduces
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY It is the stuff of science fiction and bioethical debates: The creation of artificial life. Up until now, it’s largely been just that. But an important technical bridge towards the creation of such life was… Read More ›
Forget playing fair, cheaters get a natural ‘high’ breaking the rules
Forget playing fair, cheaters get a natural ‘high’ breaking the rules By Suzannah Hills PUBLISHED:20:11 EST, 7 August 2012| UPDATED:07:46 EST, 8 August 2012 Cheaters get a natural ‘high’ from breaking the rules, a new study has found. Far from… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 