Two nanosatellites were launched from Russia by a Canadian research and technology team. Costing a…
Month: June 2014
Placental marker of prenatal stress linked to brain mitochondrial dysfunction
An enzyme found in the placenta is likely playing an important role in translating stress…
New blood test identifies heart-transplant rejection earlier than biopsy can
A noninvasive way to detect heart-transplant rejection weeks or months earlier than previously possible has…
Maybe birds can have it all: Dazzling colors and pretty songs
A study of one of the world’s largest and most colorful bird families has dispelled…
False negative results found in prognostic testing for breast cancer
Researchers retested tumor samples from a large group of women and found that 22 out…
Breathalyzer test may detect deadliest cancer
Lung cancer causes more deaths in the US than the next three most common cancers…
Familiar yet strange: Water’s ‘split personality’ revealed by computer model
Using computer models, researchers found that as water freezes it takes on a sort of…
Genetic code for diabetes in Greenland broken by scientists
New ground-breaking genetics research explains the high incidence of type 2 diabetes in the Greenlandic…
Achilles’ heel in antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered
A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by scientists. New…
Scientists take first dip into water’s mysterious ‘no-man’s land’
Scientists have made the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus…