When given to old rats, the drug, which is known to affect signaling by the…
Month: May 2016
Planet Nine: A world that shouldn’t exist
Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical…
No evidence of an association between silent brain infarcts and having migraine with aura
A large cross-sectional study focused on women with migraines with aura and compared their brain…
Ebola vaccine: Promising phase I trials
The clinical phase I trial of a potential vaccine against the dreaded Ebola virus has…
Scientists reveal how cell corrects errors made in gene transcription
The dynamics of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) backtracking process is poorly understood. Scientists…
Giving patients a tool to search for health care prices did not result in lower spending
Offering a price transparency website and app to employees at two large companies was not…
Recurrent viral respiratory tract infections during first 6 months and risk of T1 diabetes
The associations between infection types during the first 2 years of life and between respiratory…
New tool allows scientists to visualize ‘nanoscale’ processes
Chemists have developed a new tool that allows scientists for the first time to see,…
Introducing the disposable laser
Since lasers were invented more than 50 years ago, they have transformed a diverse swath…
Likely cause for recent southeast US earthquakes: Underside of the North American Plate peeling off
The southeastern United States should, by all means, be relatively quiet in terms of seismic…