Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Medicine & Health / Genetics

8 hours ago | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?

Microbial menagerie: Junk food binge alters community of microbes in the gut in less than a day

Medicine & Health / Research

4 hours ago | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to ...

Review: Reporting on Pfizer drug studies fudged

Medicine & Health / Medications

3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(AP) -- Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often fudged, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents ...

Researchers 'notch' a victory toward new kind of cancer drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

7 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in the November 12 issue ...

Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends ...