The importance of physicians using all available clinical assessment tools when considering how to treat…
Month: August 2014
Is China’s 50 percent cesarean section delivery rate too high?
Efforts must be made to decrease China’s increasing cesarean section rate, suggests a new article….
Worker bees ‘know’ when to invest in their reproductive future
When a colony of honeybees grows to about 4,000 members, it triggers an important first…
A semi-artificial leaf faster than ‘natural’ photosynthesis
Cooperation between chemists and biologists has resulted in a new method for the very efficient…
Type-1, type-2 diabetes caused by same underlying mechanism? Toxic clumps of hormone amylin may be to blame
New findings provide compelling evidence that juvenile-onset or type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes are both…
Untangling DNA: The channel that relaxes DNA
A simple and effective way of unraveling the often tangled mass of DNA is to…
Progress in the fight against harmful fungi
One of the world’s largest gene libraries for the Candida glabrata yeast, which is harmful…
Zipper action triggers bacterial invasion: Scientists discover new strategy germs use to invade cells
The hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa wraps itself into the membrane of human cells. Now researchers…
Novel oral anticoagulant prescriptions soar, but at a high cost
Warfarin, the longtime standard treatment for atrial fibrillation, is facing competition from new options in…
First LOFAR observations of ‘Whirlpool Galaxy’
Using a radio telescope with frequencies just above those of commercial FM radio stations, a…