Uncontrolled epilepsy often requires a series of trials and errors to identify effective drug combinations….
Month: December 2015
In social movements, ‘slactivists’ matter
People who casually like or retweet activist content on social media are often criticized as…
New untraceable messaging system comes with statistical guarantees
A new, untraceable text-messaging system has been designed to thwart even the most powerful of…
Men’s interest in babies linked with hormonal responses to sexual stimuli
Young men’s interest in babies is associated with their physiological reactivity to sexually explicit material,…
Experimental drug is first targeted therapy to improve survival in high-risk AML patients
Midostaurin added to standard chemotherapy is the first targeted treatment to improve survival of a…
Stretchy hydrogel ‘Band-Aid’ senses, lights up, delivers medicine
Engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like…
Home-delivered meals reduce loneliness, study finds
Seniors who receive meal deliveries at home report significantly less loneliness than those who do…
Engineers invent process to accelerate protein evolution
Through evolution, DNA mutations generate more effective proteins. Humans have found many uses for these…
Satellite observations show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions
Because plants need carbon dioxide to grow, scientists have expected rising atmospheric CO2 to substantially…
Modified mosquitoes could help fight against malaria
For the first time, malarial mosquitoes have been modified to be infertile and pass on…