Why pandemic flu kills the (apparently) least vulnerable

Researchers in Buenos Aires and Nashville have come one step closer to finding out why it is that those members of a population who should be the fittest (i.e. young and middle-aged adults) are the most likely to die during a pandemic flu outbreak...

How worms can treat bowel diseases

For many years scientists have known that carrying intestinal parasites seems to reduce the risks of inflammatory diseases and allergies. But now a patient treating himself with a dose of worms to combat inflammatory bowel disease has given doctors a unique insight into how such a benefit might ari...

Summer babies have more regular body clocks

Researchers in Nashville have found that the season in which mice are born can dramatically affect how their body clocks work in later life...

Drug that can wipe away pain memories

Scientists have discovered that they can switch off chronic pain by wiping out the brain's memory for the event that caused the discomfort...

Thriving on Arsenic - Rethinking the Chemistry of Life

The discovery of bacteria that can not only survive in waters rich in toxic arsenic, but actually use it as part of it's DNA, forces us to rethink the chemistry of life here on Earth and beyond...