MIT scientists propose that blood may help us think, in addition to its well-known role as the conveyor of fuel and oxygen to brain cells.

With an eye on curing diabetes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells destined to produce insulin into diabetic macaque monkeys – all without the need for risky immune suppression drugs that prevent rejection.

The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole.

According to an ongoing UK study of the pathogen-killing properties of copper results have shown that alloys containing 90% copper completely eliminate E.coli 0157.