The bacterium that causes Lyme disease forms dormant persister cells, which are known to evade…
Month: June 2015
New perspective on phantom eye syndrome
Approximately half of patients who have an eye removed because of a form of eye…
Twitter shared news of first Ebola case 3 days before officials
Tweets regarding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last summer reached more than 60 million…
Circular orbits of small exoplanets: Which Earth-sized exoplanets are potentially habitable?
Viewed from above, our solar system’s planetary orbits around the sun resemble rings around a…
Common antibiotic part of a new potential pancreatic cancer therapy
A new promising combination therapy has been discovered for the treatment of one of the…
Research solves mystery of memory and mood
Researchers have identified two types of stem cells in the hippocampus, a region of the…
Preoperative statins reduce mortality in coronary artery bypass graft surgery
New research is exploring the protective effect of various heart medications that patients are taking…
American surgery patients: More pain medication, yet more pain
New research shows that American patients undergoing orthopedic surgery receive more treatments for pain and…
No reason for laughing gas to be withdrawn from operating theaters
A new article concludes that there is ‘no clinically relevant evidence for the withdrawal of…
Discovery could improve radiotherapy for wide range of cancers
Scientists have discovered how giving a class of drugs called AKT inhibitors in combination with…