The International Peanut Genome Initiative — a group of multinational crop geneticists who have been…
Month: April 2014
Infants are sensitive to pleasant touch
Infants show unique physiological and behavioral responses to pleasant touch, which may help to cement…
Integrating meditation with science
Mindfulness meditation produces personal experiences that are not readily interpretable by scientists who want to…
Pathological complete response predictor of favorable breast cancer outcome
Pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is an independent predictive factor of favorable clinical outcomes…
Treating tumors: Radiation able to be securely stored in nontoxic molecule, study suggests
Researchers discovered that microscopic “bubbles” are safe and effective storage lockers for harmful isotopes that…
Pharmocogenomics Has Not Fulfilled Its Promise to Developing Countries
From 1997 to 2010, despite promises made by the international scientific community, pharmacogenomic research produced…
Rainy day can ruin online restaurant review
After looking at 1.1 million online reviews for 840,000 restaurants in more than 32,000 cities…
Europeans have three times more Neanderthal genes for lipid catabolism than Asians or Africans
Contemporary Europeans have as many as three times more Neanderthal variants in genes involved in…
Florida’s participation in quality initiative resulted in statewide improvement
A surgical collaborative of hospitals across Florida resulted in broad improvement in the state, helping…
Biological evidence of positive and negative people in the world
The ability to stay positive when times get tough — and, conversely, of being negative…