A mitochondrial defect is responsible for a type of human hereditary deafness that worsens over…
Month: November 2015
New way to find DNA damage
Chemists have devised a new way to detect chemical damage to DNA that sometimes leads…
75 percent of first-time moms plan to follow vaccine schedule, study finds
First-time expectant mothers who do not plan to follow the recommended childhood immunization schedule differ…
NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to…
Surprising finds about drug use
Conducting an economic analysis of drug use is a particularly difficult endeavor, but for one…
Study offers model to predict how microbiomes may respond to change
Scientists studying microbiomes have created a framework for predicting how the composition of these complex…
Managed bees spread and intensify diseases in wild bees
Wild pollinators are in decline across many parts of the world. To combat this, managed…
The astounding genome of the dinoflagellate
Dinoflagellates live free-floating in the ocean or symbiotically with corals, serving up — or as…
Hubble uncovers the fading cinders of some of our galaxy’s earliest homesteaders
Using Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have conducted a “cosmic archeological dig” of our Milky…
Eye drops could clear up cataracts using newly identified chemical
A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading…