Researchers have examined how often older adults who have diagnosed and undiagnosed dementia engage in…
Month: June 2016
Compound shown to reduce brain damage caused by anesthesia in early study
An experimental drug prevented learning deficits in young mice exposed repeatedly to anesthesia, researchers report….
Rare moth in severe decline at its last English site
Numbers of a rare species of moth — found only in York in England —…
Memory loss caused by West Nile virus explained
Thousands of West Nile virus survivors live with neurological problems such as memory loss that…
The world’s oldest farmers were insects
An international team of researchers has discovered the oldest fossil evidence of agriculture, not by…
Contagious cancers are spreading among several species of shellfish
Direct transmission of cancer among marine animals may be much more common than once thought,…
Particle zoo in a quantum computer
Physicists in Innsbruck have realized the first quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories, building a…
New knowledge about DNA repair can be turned into cancer inhibitors
A molecular mechanism that reads so-called epigenetic information and boosts repair of lesions in our…
Canada spends over $400 million on medicine that harms seniors
Canada spends more than $400 million annually on drugs prescribed to seniors even though the…
Has breast MRI been performed upside down?
A new phase 1 clinical trial evaluated the differences between pre-operative prone and supine MRI…