AIDS researchers struggling to unlock the structure of a key enzyme received a helping hand from an unlikley source: thousands of amateurs playing an Internet game called Foldit.
Online gamers have helped researchers to establish the structure of an enzyme related to HIV/AIDS, demonstrating the potential of recruiting everyday people to help unlock riddles that are typically the province of Ph.D.s.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Sangamo Biosciences, Identive Group, Advanced Analogic Technologies, and DryShips. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Logitech International, Applied Materials, Brocade Communications Systems, ARM Holdings, and ASML Holding.
In an extraordinary breakthrough, online game players have pieced together the molecular structure of the mysterious retrovirus enzyme that has baffled scientists for more than a decade. This is the first case in which researchers and gamers have teamed up together to solve an age-old scientific problem.
Pharmaceutical poisoning is still a common childhood injury in the United States, as a new study shows that more than 500,000 children are exposed to pharmaceuticals on a yearly basis.
The number of cases diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases has seen a remarkable decline due to the improved medical care in the city.
More children are ingesting prescription drugs found around the house, leading to a spike in the number of kids who end up in the emergency room being treated for poisoning, a new study found.
A new study found a steady increase in the number of children admitted to emergency rooms with poisoning from prescription drugs, a rise that is mostly due to children finding and taking their parents' pills.
Lady Gaga, Bono and Usher will pay tribute to the work of the Bill Clinton Foundation in a one-night concert at the Hollywood Bowl in October, the organization and Yahoo said on Tuesday.
Cats genetically modified to glow in the dark may give vital clues to the treatment of the AIDS virus, U.S. scientists have found.
Cats genetically modified to glow in the dark can give vital clues to the treatment of AIDS, scientists have found.
South African politician Julius Malema was found guilty of hate speech charges on Monday, but the crime will do little to stop the controversial leader's rise. Malema is one of South Africa's most polarizing figures, and he may well be the country's future.
They meow, they glow in the dark and they could help scientists understand how to shield the immune system against the ravages of HIV/AIDS.
Scientists are hoping that cats genetically engineered to glow in the dark can illuminate new ways to develop treatment for AIDS.
Scientists have developed genetically modified cats that emit a green glow and have cells that fight the virus which causes feline AIDS.
U.S. scientists have developed a strain of green-glowing cats with cells that resist infection from a virus that causes feline AIDS, a finding that may help prevent the disease in cats and advance AIDS research in people.
Jordan Towers said he was unpacking a truck during a family move from Truckee, California, to the state capital of Sacramento when he heard the news that a plane had flown into New York's World Trade Center.
The patients' names, account numbers, diagnosis codes, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges were posted on Student of Fortune, a commercial homework help Web site. The information was contained in a detailed spreadsheet, which the site posted on Sept. 9, 2010, to show customers how to create a bar chart from raw data.
England, Scotland and Wales will lift a lifetime ban on blood donations by homosexual and bisexual men, but only those who have not had sex in the past 12 months will be able to donate.
South African President Jacob Zuma appointed evangelical pastor Mogoeng Mogoeng to the Chief Justice position on Thursday. But, the choice of Mogoeng, who will now hear the country's Constitutional Court, has already sparked fury in some South Africans.
Irish musician Bono and Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour are planning a global Olympic-style torch relay, culminating in a concert in Kenya in 2012 to raise funds and awareness about the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.
Babesiosis, a potentially life-threatening tick-borne disease, is a rare but grave complication that can be transmitted through blood transfusions, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns.