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Not All Risk Is Created Equal
August 28, 2007 — A camper who chases a grizzly but won't risk unprotected sex. A sky diver afraid to stand up to the boss. New research shows that not all risk is created equal and people show a mixture of both risky ... > full story -
DNA Provides Clues To Outcome In Patients With Liver Cancer
August 23, 2007 — The main causes of liver cancer, which is the fifth most common cancer in the world, are well defined. However, the molecular pathways activated by the triggers of liver cancer are not well ... > full story -
All Eukaryotic Kinases Share One Common Set Of Substrates
August 22, 2007 — A team of researchers has established that all eukaryotic kinases share a common set of substrates, nine amino acid segments shared by all proteins that are known to be ... > full story -
Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
August 13, 2007 — Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative. The scientists concluded that Neanderthals did not develop their ... > full story -
Facial Attraction: Choice Of Sexual Partner Shaped The Human Face
August 13, 2007 — Men with large jaws, flaring cheeks and large eyebrows are sexy, at least in the eyes of our ancestors, researchers at the Natural History Museum have discovered. Facial attractiveness played a major ... > full story -
New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo
August 13, 2007 — Two new fossils cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. One of the two fossils, an upper jaw bone of Homo habilis (KNM-ER ... > full story -
Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature
August 7, 2007 — In 1942, a human braincase was found in Romania during phosphate mining. The skull's geological age has remained uncertain. Now, new radiocarbon analysis directly dates the skull to approximately ... > full story -
Gene For Left-Handedness Identified
August 5, 2007 — Scientists have discovered a gene that increases an individual's chances of being left-handed. The research revealed a gene called LRRTM1; the first to be discovered which has an effect on ... > full story -
Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Unique Human Traits
July 30, 2007 — Researchers report the results of a large-scale, genome-wide study to investigate gene copy number differences among ten primate species, including humans. In the report, the scientists speculate how ... > full story -
How Would The Avian Influenza Virus Be Transmitted In Human Households?
July 25, 2007 — Scientists have used data from a small but well-defined study of H7N7 avian influenza virus transmission in human households to estimate transmissibility in humans living in close ... > full story
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