An examination of state vaccination requirements for adolescents finds that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine…
Month: July 2015
Investigational drug prevents life-threatening side effects of kidney disease treatment
The investigational drug patiromer quickly reduced elevated blood-potassium levels — a common life-threatening side effect…
More precise estimate of Avogadro’s number to help redefine kilogram
An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent…
Gut microbes enable coffee pest to withstand extremely toxic concentrations of caffeine
Scientists discovered that coffee berry borers worldwide share 14 bacterial species in their digestive tracts…
Acoustical metamaterial with near-zero density
When a sound wave hits an obstacle and is scattered, the signal may be lost…
New classification system for brain tumors
Despite modern chemoradiation therapy it is still very difficult to give reliable prognoses for malignant…
Multiple, co-existing groups of gut bacteria keep Clostridium difficile infections at bay
Multiple species of bacteria working together in healthy guts are responsible for keeping out nasty…
Could dissolvable microneedles replace injected vaccines?
Flu vaccines delivered using microneedles that dissolve in the skin can protect people against infection…
This is your brain on fried eggs: Brain, motivation and eating a high-fat diet
High-fat feeding can cause impairments in the functioning of the mesolimbic dopamine system, according to…
NASA’s three-billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic encounter
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system,…