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And it’s headed for DC. ThinkProgress: According to the Maryland Department of the Environment, approximately 4,000 gallons of toxic coal ash has spilled into the North Branch of the Potomac River in Luke, MD. A “dime sizedâ€� hole developed in the pipeline on March 8, but was not discovered...

President Barack Obama is scheduled on Monday to lift the federal ban on embryonic stem cell research. The ban was imposed by President Bush and enjoyed support from the Religious Right but embryonic stem cell research has been supported by the United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church (USA), the Pr...

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Rising cases of dengue fever, chikungunya, bird flu and ebola viruses were reported in several Southeast Asian countries in the past two months. Relax, there are no pandemic threats. Not yet, anyway. Last month, 4,521 dengue cases and 13 dengue-related deaths were reported in Malaysia. These are ala...

From the Beeb: Gene could allow lab-grown teeth. Scientists believe they have found a way to grow teeth in the laboratory, a discovery that could put an end to fillings and dentures. The US team from Oregon have located the gene responsible for the growth of enamel, the hard outer layer of teeth whi...

An interesting pair of papers on tumour suppressor genes in colorectal cancer was just published in PLoS Biology.  According to the researchers, "Our genetic evidence from Drosophila and previous in vitro studies of mammalian Atonal homolog 1 Atoh1, (also called Math1 or Hath1) suggest an anti-onco...

I read this article in The West a little while ago, and it hit my bad-science peeve button. “Half of WA women drink throughout pregnancy“. This beat-up is certainly not alone in drawing conclusions that do not follow from the data, but it’s a particularly egregious example. The new...

The days of whining drills and shrieking patients that can make a trip to the dentist an experience to dread may be numbered, according to scientists who claim that they may have found a way to regrow rotting teeth. Researchers studying tooth development have singled out a gene that controls the gro...

When he touched down in Maseru, Lesotho, in September 2007, Salmaan Keshavjee had to help get a hospital renovated and a lab built. But first, his colleague Hind Satti said that they must visit a patient nearly 40 miles (65 kilometers) away. The ride through the small and landlocked African nation t...