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Great white sharks hunt just like Hannibal Lecter (AP)

Great white sharks hunt just like Hannibal Lecter

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don't attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.





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New research is first to explore regional differences in US serial killings

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 25, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Did you know that people living in the Western region of the United States are more likely to become victims of a serial killer than people living in the Northeast? The February issue of Homicide Studies, published by SAGE, ...


The buzz of the chase

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London are helping to perfect a technique used to catch serial killers, by testing it on bumblebees.


Where serial killers are likely to strike

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New research from two United States universities and Massey University is the first to throw light on regional differences in serial killing.


Serial killers may kill more victims than we think

Serial killers may kill more victims than we think

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Serial killers might be responsible for up to 10 times as many U.S. deaths as previously estimated, according to an analysis by a criminologist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.


T cell immunity enhanced by timing of interleukin-7 therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 02, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

That the cell nurturing growth factor interleukin-7 can help ramp up the ability of the immune system to remember the pathogenic villains it encounters is well known.


HIV pays a price for invisibility

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus's ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The study was publis ...


Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska (AP)

Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.


Chronic infection now clearly tied to immune-system protein (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new study finds the cross-talk between 'killer T-cells' and 'helper T-cells' can only happen in the presence of interleukin-21, a powerful immune-system protein. UAB researchers say if interleukin-21 is missing, the immune ...


Natural born killers -- how the body's frontline immune cells decide which cells to destroy

Natural born killers -- how the body's frontline immune cells decide which cells to destroy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The mechanism used by 'Natural Killer' immune cells in the human body to distinguish between diseased cells, which they are meant to destroy, and normal cells, which they are meant to leave ...


A man walks past the office of online site Craigslist in San Francisco, California

Alleged 'Craigslist Killer' pleads not guilty

Technology / Internet

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The 23-year old medical student accused of killing a prostitute he met after answering an Internet ad on the popular Craigslist website, pleaded not guilty Monday in a Boston, Massachusetts courtroom.



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