The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 90 minutes only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Discovery of molecules that sculpt nerve shape will assist in understanding nerve cell function and neurological disease. Molecular biologists at RIKEN’s Brain Science Institute in Wako have made such a breakthrough picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a clearing house for information about the race to "Break the Carbon Barrier". With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a cle... read full post picked by michelleroberts 2 years ago

Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Researchers describe how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

A radical treatment that "rinses" organs and then implants them with patients' DNA is being hailed as a solution to the transplant crisis. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A 1970's operation to help ulcer sufferers in which the vagus nerve (which spurs gastric acid production) was severed is being researched as a possible surgical weight loss aid with less complications than gastric bypass. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

Flash back three or four billion years — Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds of life on Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

For the first time, satellite imagery reveals thick Martian salt deposits scattered across the planet's southern surface, which one planetary scientist claims could be sites of ancient life. The mats of sodium chloride — the same taste-enhancing mineral found on your kitchen table — serve as more evidence of Mars' watery past, and researchers think the briney pools that made them could... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Authorities found a rental truck filled with rotting fish, cow parts and pig organs. Four University of Arizona students had rented the truck and collected the smelly cargo intending to dump it on someone’s front lawn as a prank. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one. picked by whi73rav3n 1 year ago

We could have alien origins, say scientists who sent fossilized microscopic life-forms into space and back inside an artificial meteorite. The researchers attached the baseball-size rock to the outside of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 spacecraft to test whether biological material could survive the round-trip journey. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Soldiers who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan have been given new hope after doctors fitted a former US marine with a "bionic arm" that can be controlled by thought alone. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

U.S. scientists of John Hopkins University say they have disproved the long-held theory that the spinal cord is incapable of repairing itself. They say human nerve stem cells they transplanted into damaged spinal cords of rats have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats' own spinal cord cells. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Money should never be a reason for living, even if the large majority of people surrounding us actually believe in such a crazy idea. I can only pity them, as my purpose in the present work is not providing answers, but raising questions. You are the ones to judge for yourselves and draw the right conclusions regarding your own life and beliefs. picked by moniquebarb 2 years ago

Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs. picked by Alton 2 years ago

New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago