Topic: Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists studying rats have found both male and female newborns have an innate sense of direction before they've even begun to move around, and this is likely to be the same for all animals -- including humans.The researchers ...
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have strapped tiny global position systems (GPS) to pigeons to analyze the way bird flocks change direction and stay together in a study they hope will also give clues to human collective behavior.</p><p>Researchers ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects when it was launched as a morning sickness pill half a century ago, may be useful for treating a hereditary condition that affects blood vessels, scientists said on Sunday.In a study in ...
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers are programed to take risks because they enjoy the thrill of dangerous situations more than others, British scientists said on Wednesday.</p><p>The findings may explain why adolescents engage in activities like drug-taking, fighting and unsafe ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Treating the immune system can dramatically ease the suffering of people with chronic pain from an injured limb or following an amputation, a finding that could change the way such pain is treated, scientists said on Monday.Researchers from the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK government launched plans on Monday to halve the number of smokers by the end of the decade and said it would consider removing branding from cigarette packets and banning cigarette vending machines."We've come so far and ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday.In peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT), stem ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Eating foods like celery and parsley which contain the naturally occurring flavanoid apigenin may help prevent leukemia, Dutch scientists said Thursday.Maikel Peppelenbosch of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands said tests showed that apigenin -- a common component of ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with non-operable head and neck cancers should be given chemo- and radiotherapy at the same time, as it more than doubles the time they live without the disease getting worse, British scientists said on Wednesday.Researchers from the UK ...