Antioxidants Taken With Junk Food Can Make It Safer
High intake of glucose, or eating a high-fat, high-calorie fast-food meal, causes an increase in the blood's inflammatory components.

Sex And Violence Impair Memory For TV Commercials
Viewers of programs with sexually explicit or violent content were less likely to remember commercials immediately after exposure and even 24 hours later.

Cell Factories Produce Better Without Reproducing
Preventing microbes from reproducing has the potential to manufacture large quantities of important pharmaceutical proteins, according to an article in the May issue of Microbiology Today quarterly magazine from the Society for General Microbiology in the UK.

Genetics May Explain Variability In Keratin Diseases
Inactivating just one of more than two dozen similar genes can cause temporary but profound hair loss, known as alopecia, in mice, researchers from Johns Hopkins and the Pasteur Institute in France report in the June issue of Genes & Development.

Bandage Rebuilds Scaffolding On Which Cells Interact
John Kao's invention is sort of like a molecular version of Jell-O salad -- it's made from gelatin, turns into a solid and has stuff suspended in it.

Spiny Spider Uses Color To Entice Prey, Not Mates
Like the glitter and glare of Las Vegas beckoning tourists to the gambling tables, the orb-weaving spiny spider flashes its colorful back to lure unsuspecting quarry into its web.