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Har Gobind Khorana: Why Google honours him today

In the 1950s, it was well-known that genetic information is transferred from DNA to Ribonucleic acid (RNA), to protein. His passion for science started when he ...

Selena Gomez stops by Grand Prairie childhood home

Oddly enough, right before she chose to unfollow her on again, off again BFF Demi Lovato , Selena commented "FIRE" on one of Demi's bikini pics. Even when I ...

Exercise Can Reverse Damage to an Aging Heart

Regular exercise training may provide protection against the future risk of heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction by preventing the increase in car...

Supreme Court sets aside order cancelling larger tobacco health warnings

In a letter to Modi, 453 doctors and the medical associations said: "Your government implemented 85% pictorial warnings on tobacco products with effect from Apr...

High Number of Flu Cases at Cottage Health Hospitals

More than 1,000 hospitalizations have been reported , and at least 34 people have died, the report says. Statistics show that not as many people have had t...

Delta LG Polls: APC to boycott tomorrow's election

Chairman of the Commission, Chief Mike Ogbodu said fresh election would be held in Ughelli North and Ethiope East on Tuesday January 9, while the result of Ika ...

Woman, 55, dies after eating raw oysters and contracting flesh-eating bacteria

She shucked and ate about two dozen oysters with her friend, but not long later, her health rapidly changed. Both Bowers and Bergquist say they are dedicate...

Microsoft Fix Freezes Some PCs With AMD Chips

Doing so will download the Windows 10 Upgrade tool and you can run this and follow the instructions to upgrade a Windows 7 or 8.1 device to the latest versi...

Exactly What Aziz Ansari Said in His Censored Acceptance Speech

Sir Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for Gandhi (1982), Haing S. Ngor won Best Supporting Actor for The Killing Fields (1984), and Miyoshi Umeki won Best Support...

Blood Donations Go Uncollected Due To Winter Weather: American Red Cross

To remind the community of the continued need for blood donations, the Alamo Quarry Market will light their iconic smoke stacks red through January 8. Blood and...

CDC investigating E. Coli outbreak possibly linked to romaine lettuce

The infections are thought to be tied to leafy greens, mainly romaine lettuce. So far a total of 58 people in the USA and Canada have been sickened. Rogers sa...

Suspect arrested after driving stolen New Jersey Transit police vehicle into terminal

During the Monday morning rush of commuters heading to NY, a stolen police auto rammed into the waiting area at the train station in Hoboken, New Jersey, Northj...

Schools closed, delayed, Monday due to icy conditions

Monday, and some area schools have delayed opening. - Florence School District 4 will operate on a two-hour delay for all students, faculty and staff on Mon...

Confirmed flu cases continue to rise in NY

In Riverside County, for example, there were 3,415 ambulance transports related to the flu, a spike of 31 percent above the average, local TV station ABC7 repor...

Justice Department Abandons Obama-Era Marijuana Guidelines

Thursday's announcement is a major decision for an attorney general who has regularly decried marijuana use as risky. The move, first reported by The Associ...

Sir David Attenborough blasts Bear Grylls for killing animals on TV show

When asked for his views about these exploits, Attenborough replied: "We've never killed an animal..." Viewers were left disgusted after contestants on Celebr...

Widespread flu hits 46 states, over 900 hospitalized in OH alone

The CDC said that across the nation, about 5 percent of patients saw their doctors for flu-like symptoms in the week ending December 23, compared with 2.2 perce...

Victims condemn decision to release Britain's 'taxi rapist'

Yvonne Traynor said: "It feels far too soon for this risky and manipulative perpetrator to be released into the public having served this woefully short time ...

Constitution Bench to look at adultery law

But the SC website showed that the March 10, 1954 judgment (Yusuf Abdul Aziz vs State of Bombay) was rendered by a five-judge bench comprising then CJI M C Mah...

Dozens ill from E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce

The outbreak spread across 13 states: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ver...

What's Ahead for Sangamo Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ:SGMO) After More Shorted Shares?

Analysts await Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc . The total number of shares traded in the last 90-day period is 42,033. Sangamo Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SGMO) last ann...

Health agency: IN flu deaths reach 25 during final week of 2017

But the year before that, in 2013, there were far fewer, with 216 intensive care unit admissions and 5 outbreaks. Doctors believe they may see more flu cases th...

Free flu vaccines offered at county health departments in TN

The Knox County Health Department is offering free flu vaccinations. Dominguez is an infectious disease specialist at Methodist Dallas Medical Center . Regul...

Very dense fog engulfs Delhi, Northwest and East India

This is for the first time that domestic airlines have been ordered to cancel their flights as till a year ago they were asked to reschedule their operation...

FY2018 Earnings Estimate for US Bancorp (USB) Issued By Oppenheimer

The stock has been active on the tape, now trading at $54.98, up from yesterday's close by 0.77%. About 6.86M shares traded or 27.51% up from the average. Tompk...

The Top 5 Diets to Try in 2018, According to Experts

That's the winning trio found in both top diets from the 2018 U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of diets. Overall, the most endorsed diets were the gove...

'Jeopardy' host taking break from taping after undergoing brain surgery

The surgery was successful and he went home to recover two days later; he celebrated Christmas at home with his family. Trebek said he received treatment for ...

Soaring number of NHS hospital trusts declare 'black alert'

New Year's Eve witnessed 12 hospital trusts report 100 per cent bed occupancy, the biggest total for several weeks. Dr Richard Fawcett, a consultant in emerge...

East coast braces for 'Bomb Cyclone'

The storm is crawling up the northeastern American Thursday morning with a threat of winds gusting as high as 60 miles per hour and a bone-chilling blast of Arc...

How alcohol causes cancer

This finding offers an insight into why drinking alcohol has been shown to increase the risk of developing seven types of cancer, including common variants such...