A new study makes inroads in learning to ‘read’ the genome, a key goal of…
Month: May 2016
Radiotherapy halves deaths from prostate cancer 15 years after diagnosis
A longitudinal Nordic study, comparing the results of hormone (antiandrogen) therapy with or without the…
Delayed concussion reporting may sideline college athletes for several more days
Athletes who wait to report a concussion may experience longer recovery times, sayresearchers who found…
How will people interact with technology in the future?
New research discusses how people will interact with technology in the future.
More than half of streamflow in the upper Colorado River basin originates as groundwater
The entire Colorado River Basin currently supports 50 million people, and that amount is expected…
Intense wind found in the neighborhood of a black hole
Astrophysicists have detected an intense wind from one of the closest known black holes to…
Four of five british people are unaware of ocean acidification
Just one in five people in Britain are aware of ocean acidification — a consequence…
Genetic potential of oil-eating bacteria from the BP oil spill decoded
Microbiologists have cracked the genetic code of how bacteria broke down oil to help clean…
Malaria vaccine protects adults for up to a year, new study finds
Malaria infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills more than half a…
Discovery of lung cancer mutations responsive to targeted therapies, immunotherapies
A number of new driver mutations in lung cancer cells has been discovered that may…