Scientists have made a significant advance toward making movies of extremely fast atomic processes with…
Month: April 2016
Can your fitness tracker save your life in the ER?
Emergency physicians used a patient’s personal activity tracker and smartphone to identify the time his…
Controlling cell turnover in the intestinal lining
The lining of the intestine is the most rapidly-renewing tissue in the body. Routine shedding…
New methods to study ‘genetic invasion’ detect the escape of crop genomes into the wild
Agricultural practices create opportunities for crop DNA to invade wild plant gene pools. This allelic…
240-million-year-old fossils indicate how dinosaurs grew from hatchlings to adults
Paleontologists have found that muscle-scarred fossil leg bones of one of the closest cousins of…
Irregular heart rhythm may affect walking, strength in older adults
When people over age 70 develop atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heartbeat,…
Hispanics/Latinos at higher risk for cardiac dysfunction, heart failure
Hispanics/Latinos have higher rates of cardiac dysfunction but are rarely aware they have the heart-pumping…
A lesson from wheat evolution: From the wild to our spaghetti dish
Scientists examined the rich evolutionary history of pasta wheat by measuring the changes in metabolic…
How printing a 3-D skull helped save a real one
Doctors 3D printed a 15-year-old’s skull to prepare for surgery to remove a rare tumor…
Suicide risk can be intercepted in the emergency department
Universal suicide risk screening in emergency departments nearly doubled the number of patients who were…