Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may contribute to reproductive health problems experienced by hundreds of thousands of women,…
Month: March 2016
Microscopic structures of vegetable surfaces contribute to foodborne illness
Foodborne illness outbreaks do more than make us sick. Not only can the U.S. economy…
Tougher plastic with 50 percent renewable content
Researchers have made a better thermoplastic by replacing styrene with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer…
New method measures nicotine delivery from e-cigarettes
The effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a smoking substitute will likely rely on whether they can…
Fungus that threatens chocolate forgoes sexual reproduction for cloning
A fungal disease that poses a serious threat to cacao plants — the source of…
Improving benchtop particle accelerators
Researchers propose a new way to improve the beam quality in laser wakefield accelerators, which…
How to spot elder abuse and neglect in the ER: Things are not always as they seem
When older adults in severely debilitated states show up for treatment in the emergency department,…
Finding a new ‘sweet spot’ for improving cancer risk assessment
An environmental toxicologist who has been an outspoken critic of the current linear no-threshold (LNT)…
Mixed-strain malaria infections influence drug resistance
When hosts are co-infected with drug-resistant and drug-sensitive strains, both strains are competitively suppressed. Anti-malarial…
New study ranks methods to induce labor on effectiveness, cost
Researchers have conducted a review of the clinical and cost effectiveness of labor induction methods….