A possible therapy to treat neurofibromatosis type 1 or NF1, a childhood neurological disease characterized…
Month: December 2014
Linguistic methods uncover sophisticated meanings, monkey dialects
The same species of monkeys located in separate geographic regions use their alarm calls differently…
Less than half of parents think their 18-year-olds can make a doctors appointment
Many parents doubt their older teens are ready to manage their own health care, according…
Squid supplies blueprint for printable thermoplastics
Squid, what is it good for? You can eat it and you can make ink…
If cells can’t move, cancer can’t grow
By blocking a widespread enzyme, researchers have shown they can slow down the movement of…
Occasional heroin use may worsen HIV infection
Occasional heroin use by HIV-positive patients may be particularly harmful to the immune system and…
Stunning zinc fireworks when egg meets sperm
Sparks literally fly when a sperm and an egg hit it off. The fertilized mammalian…
Climate policy pledges are an important step forward but fall short of 2°C
Pledges to reduce emissions in China, Europe and the US provide an important step forward…
Neuronal circuits filter out distractions in brain
Scientists have hypothesized for decades about how the brain filters out distractions, but it has…
Promising new method for rapidly screening cancer drugs
Traditional genomic, proteomic and other screening methods currently used to characterize drug mechanisms are time-consuming…