Workers earning the lowest wages have a higher risk of hypertension than workers with the…
Month: January 2013
Improving DNA amplification from problematic plants
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a common technique used to amplify, or copy, pieces…
Coral records suggest El Nino activity rises above background
By examining a set of fossil corals that are as much as 7,000 years old,…
Synthetic chemistry: Steroids that only nature could make on a large scale, until now
Scientists have achieved a feat in synthetic chemistry by inventing a scalable method to make…
Rethinking bacterial persistence: Optofluidics allow for new understanding of resistance to antibiotics
Scientists have used microfluidics to observe the behavior of individual tuberculosis-like bacteria in the presence…
How deadly skin cancer spreads into other parts of the body
After recently announcing success in eliminating melanoma metastasis in laboratory experiments, scientists have made another…
Big brains are pricey, guppy study shows
Bigger brains can make animals, well, brainier, but that boost in brain size and ability…
Stem cell technology could help harness patients’ own immune cells to fight disease
Researchers reporting in two separate recent articles used stem cell technology to successfully regenerate patients’…
Researchers use stem cells to pinpoint cause of common type of sudden cardiac death
When a young athlete dies unexpectedly on the basketball court or the football field, it’s…
New strategies needed to encourage male cancer survivors to consider future fertility
New strategies are needed to encourage men who have banked sperm prior to cancer treatment…