Scientists recently demonstrated the design of softwood lignin-based polymers with potential application as alternatives to…
Month: March 2016
Legionnaires’ disease: New drug class offers potential new treatment for lethal bacteria
A new class of drugs has shown promise for treating the bacteria that cause legionnaires’…
Quality of life not notably better for women choosing double mastectomy
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomies were associated with slightly higher satisfaction in women’s perception of how their…
Variation in medical marijuana program regulations impacts enrollment
A new study found that while 14 of the nation’s 24 medical marijuana programs were…
Where prostate cancer spreads in the body affects survival time
In the largest analysis of its kind, researchers have found that the organ site where…
New study finds troubling health care outcomes for US workers without paid sick leave
There are 49 million US workers without paid sick leave, causing an even greater divide…
Collective memory discovered in bacteria
Individual bacterial cells have short memories. But groups of bacteria can develop a collective memory…
Warming up optoelectronic research for new generation of optoelectronic devices
A team of physicists is creating tailor-made materials for cutting-edge research and perhaps a new…
Eye cells may use math to detect motion
In a study of mice, scientists showed how one type of neuron in the eye…
Multi-scale simulations solve a plasma turbulence mystery
Cutting-edge simulations have yielded exciting answers to long-standing questions about plasma heat loss that have…