PARIS (AFP) — Anti-doping tests used at the Olympics and other major sporting events are too often based on faulty science and statistical methods that can yield erroneous results, a researcher charged Wednesday in a leading scientific journal.
Donald Berry, an expert in biostatistics at the University of Texas, used the case of American cyclist Floyd [...]
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Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Patients infected with HIV might be able to live symptom free without medicines as aggressive treatment with newer drugs better control the disease, the head of U.S. infectious disease research said today.
While research on a vaccine continues, early treatment with the current AIDS drugs also could prevent some people [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US authorities have expressed confidence that a US bioweapons expert who committed suicide was the lone culprit behind the 2001 anthrax attacks that terrorized the United States.
Bruce Ivins, 62, killed himself with a prescription drug overdose last week as prosecutors were preparing to charge him in the attacks that left five people [...]
Scientists at a California company reported yesterday they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.
Creation of the embryos — grown from cells taken from the company’s chief executive and one [...]
A scientific method including experimentation was first used by the Iraqi physicist and polymath Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), circa 1000 AD, in his Book of Optics, and he has been described as the “first scientist” for this reason.
There are notable examples of people who have moved back and forth among disciplines. A number of early scientists [...]
A scientist uses the scientific method to do research. William Whewell coined the word in 1833.[1] Before that scientists were termed “natural philosophers” or “men of science”.
Scientists are generally motivated, often from childhood, by a desire to understand why the world is as we see it and how it came to be. They exhibit a [...]
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