Autistic poet gives rare glimpse into mystery illness

Doctors told his mom he was beyond hope….. Tito is now published poet
An inspiring look into the life of an autistic child.

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Evolution Of New Species Slows As Number Of Competitors Rise

The rate at which new species are formed in a group of closely related animals decreases as the total number of different species in that group goes up, according to new research.

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Where did viruses come from?

Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult because they don’t leave fossils and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells they’ve invaded. Some viruses even have the ability to stitch their own genes into those of the cells they infect,…

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Vaccine for Ebola virus

One of the world
’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.

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How Important Is the Latest Cloning Feat?

Scientists have generated early-stage cloned human embryos, but not stem cells.

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What makes a cancer cell tick

A couple of papers appeared in last week’s edition of Science that looked at the same problem: how do you identify the genes that help keep a cancer cell dividing? It’s the uncontrolled division that makes these cells dangerous, and blocking that is the goal of cancer therapeutics.

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