New research may lead to a rethinking of how, when and from where our ancestors…
Month: December 2012
Study promoting coffee drinking benefits needs more research, says dentist
Heavy coffee drinkers have a lower chance of dying from oral cancer, says new research…
Sharp rise in admissions for certain drug combinations over 10 years
Substance abuse treatment admissions for addiction involving combined use of benzodiazepine and narcotic pain relievers…
New technique for minimally invasive robotic kidney cancer surgery
Urologists have developed a new technique that could make minimally invasive robotic partial nephrectomy procedures…
Generic drugs often have incorrect safety labeling, study suggests
Medical researchers have found that more than two-thirds of generic drugs have safety-warning labels that…
Video-game users: Who are sports gamers?
From Gran Turismo to WWE Smackdown, sports-based video games represent a wide variety of pursuits….
Medical researchers discover new potential chemotherapy
Medical researchers have discovered that knocking out a particular “partner” gene is the Achilles’ heel…
Your Christmas tree and its genome have remained very much the same over the last 100 million years
Biologist have shown that the genome of conifers such as spruce, pine, and fir has…
Too many antibiotics? Bacterial ecology that lives on humans has changed in last 100 years
A new study has demonstrated that ancient DNA can be used to understand ancient human…
Predicting risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death: There’s a computer model for that
A new computer model of the heart predicted risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death…