Psoriasis is an autoimmune disorder in which skin cells proliferate out of control. For some…
Month: June 2012
DNA used to identify deceased along Texas-Mexico border
Baylor professor organizes a field school to a Texas border town to exhume bodies of…
Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ predictions feature uncertainty
Scientists are predicting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone could range from a…
Stagnating life expectancies in United States: Poorer U.S. citizens live five years less than the affluent
Despite modest gains in lifespan over the past century, the United States still trails many…
Graphene Research: Trapping light in a carbon net
Graphene, an ordered monolayer of carbon, is the thinnest substance known, and yet has extraordinary…
Drug study shows clubbers have little interest in new wave legal highs
Clubbers show little interest in the subsequent wave of legal highs that have become available…
A virtual look at the zebrafish brain
Scientists have long dreamed of being able to grasp the brain as a whole rather…
Tracking stem cells in the body
Researchers have developed new methods to track stem cells and further understanding of what happens…
Misidentified and contaminated cell lines lead to faulty cancer science, experts say
Due to a high rate of contamination, misidentification and redundancy in widely available cell lines,…
Darwin’s principles say cancer will always evolve to resist treatment
Cancer is subject to the evolutionary processes laid out by Charles Darwin in his concept…