The risk of getting mouth cancer is determined by certain genes and the rhythm by which they decompose alcohol in the organism.

Scottish specialists have studied two genes which are responsible for processing alcohol in our body - a substance which is known to be a risk for oral cancer. The people which have other variants [...]

UK researchers have stated that obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, which make the emission of greenhouse gases even worse.

Things aren’t so good. To our day, there are at least 400 million obese adults, and the World Health Organization projects that by 2015 over 2.3 billion [...]

Researchers are testing a new method which could allow doctors to diagnose patients, in order to see which of them need antibiotic treatment before pneumonia shows up. This makes use of gene chips, which are also known as microrays - a technology which has been used for more than a decade in labs to [...]

Scientists have continually tried to establish a connection between music and mathematics, but they were unsuccessful until a few years ago, when Prof Dmitri Tymoczko from Princeton University discovered that there is actually a strong link between them.
Along with other scientists, Prof Tzmoczko managed to develop a method to analyze and categorize music in order [...]