Only 1.3 percent of cancers diagnosed between 2004 and 2010 were cancers of the ovary,…
Month: February 2015
CTO Insights: Light Can Keep the Dark at Bay
We are all afraid of the unknown. Why? Because we all want to be in…
CTO Insights: Light Can Keep the Dark at Bay
We are all afraid of the unknown. Why? Because we all want to be in…
‘Virtual virus’ unfolds the flu on a CPU
Combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics, researchers have built…
Promising peptide for TBI, heart attack and stroke
By employing derivatives of humanin, a naturally occurring peptide encoded in the genome of cellular…
Drug detectives
Good drugs are hard to design: they must not only effectively treat a medical condition,…
What’s next in diets: Chili peppers?
A large percentage of the world’s population — fully one third, by the World Health…
Bacteria’s hidden traffic control
Not unlike an urban restaurant, the success of a bacterial cell depends on three things:…
Lifting the veil on a dark galaxy
A cluster of young, pulsating stars discovered in the far side of the Milky Way…
We’re all going to die; DNA strands on the end of our chromosomes hint when
Scientists currently studying the gene mutations that cause people to have unnaturally short telomeres. Recent…