Scientists have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that…
Month: April 2010
New requirements for male fertility
Two independent groups of researchers have identified distinct roles for two proteins in a family…
Planck space observatory highlights the complexity of star formation
New images from the European Space Agency’s Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star…
China’s Alibaba teams up with US PayPal (AFP)
AFP – Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said Tuesday its new transaction platform would accept payments…
Police seize blogger’s computers over iPhone prototype (Reuters)
Reuters – Police broke into a blogger’s home in search of photographs of a prototype…
Magnitude of overdiagnosis in cancer indicates need for strategies to address the problem
Many cancers detected by screening tests are not destined to cause symptoms or death and…
How grass buffers keep agricultural herbicides at bay
Researchers studied the impact of grass and grass/tree buffer strips on three herbicides commonly used…
Breast cancer risk factors differ among races
A new study finds that factors known to increase the risk of breast cancer among…
Scientists get bird’s-eye view of how cuckoos fool their hosts
Using field experiments in Africa and a new computer model that gives them a bird’s-eye…
Immune cells predict success of head and neck cancer treatment
Levels of a key type of immune cell are higher in head and neck cancer…