Just in time for Halloween, a controversy has erupted in the scientific community over an early human skull that was found in a dig site in Dmanisi, Georgia. In 2000, a jaw bone was discovered...

China has received approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a live attenuated vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a viral brain infection transferred by mosquitoes that causes 10-15,000 deaths per year, mostly in...

Earlier this month, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prizes. The prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to James Rothman, a Yale professor of...

Italy's minister of health has announced that the Italian government will not permit human clinical trials of a controversial stem cell therapy. The Stamina Foundation, a Turin-based non-profit founded by Davide Vannoni, has been...

Welcome back, dear readers! Last time, we finished Day 1 of the Western blot. This issue, we’ll get into Day 2, which will complete the experiment. After we retrieve our membrane from incubation with the...

During the lunch hour of Sep. 16, science supporters across Manitoba gathered outside of the University of Winnipeg for the Stand Up For Science rally. Seventeen such events were held across the country that...

Welcome back, dear readers! Last time we covered some of the basics of Western blotting. This issue, we'll start getting into some of the specifics of the procedure. The Western blotting technique that we will...