The Blog of Science

After a huge, three-year effort, a genealogy research company in Britain has made available online a vast database with the British phonebooks from 1880 through 1984. This project required about 2,000 books to be digitalised and transferred into the database that can be queried through the Ancestry website. The main purpose for this initiative is […]

Today’s article is not about DNA, although its far-reaching implications prompted us to share this story with our readers.
Last August, astronomers working on the analysis of data being acquired by NASA’s WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) satellite announced that they found a huge void in the universe. A void is a region of space that […]

For many people forensics sounds like a fascinating subject. Just consider the success that every TV serial, movie or fiction and non-fiction books about forensics are having lately. However, few people think about forensics as a serious alternative when choosing a career. But why not? Perhaps there is the idea that you need to be […]

Recent research carried out by Lawrence Chan and coworkers at Baylor College of Medicine brings new hopes in the battle against diabetes, this time through gene therapy procedures done on mice.
What is gene therapy?
The idea about gene therapy consists of ‘repairing’ malfunctioning cells by introducing a […]