A study of almost 49,000 obese patients shows that those who do not have obesity…
Month: June 2016
Prodding leukemia cells with nanoprobes could provide cancer clues
Giving blood cells a gentle squeeze can reveal a great deal about their health. To…
Researchers mine Twitter to reveal Congress’ ideological divide on climate change
Senate Democrats are three times more likely to follow science-related Twitter accounts than their Republican…
Amazon might not always be pitching you the best prices, researchers find
A research team shows that Amazon is much more likely to point buyers to sellers…
Prevention is key to closing racial disparity gap in stroke
Middle aged African-Americans are more likely to die of stroke than are whites, not because…
Brain power: Why do humans have the largest cerebral cortex?
The expansion of the cerebral cortex sets humans apart from the rest of their fellow…
New mouse models give a boost to the development of cancer immunotherapies
A new cancer treatment called CD40 inhibitor has yielded disappointing results when tested in clinical…
Scientists experimentally confirm electron model in complex molecules
In 1998 scientists Richard Bader and Carlo Gatti proposed a mathematical model, describing the distribution…
Reading between the genes
For a long time dismissed as ‘junk DNA,’ we now know that also the regions…
Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel
Scientists have created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating…