Why do some foodborne bacteria make us sick? A new study has found that pathogens…
Month: September 2016
Incisionless robotic surgery offers promising outcomes for oropharyngeal cancer patients
An incisionless robotic surgery – done alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy or radiation –…
Solar system could have evolved from poorly mixed elemental soup
Chondrite meteorites contain a puzzling mismatch in isotopic composition with Earth’s crust. The mismatch puzzles…
Genes essential to life found in mouse mutants are related to many human disease genes
Mutant traits have, for the first time, been identified in the mouse for 52 human…
Essential mouse genes could guide human precision medicine
About one-third of 1751 genes studied in the first comprehensive survey of the mouse genome…
Linking terrorism with mental illness fuels stigma and impedes prevention efforts
An ‘automatic assumption’ to link terrorist acts with mental illness unfairly stigmatizes the millions of…
Tasty letters? Sensory connections spill over in synesthesia
Neuroscientists have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia,…
No clear threshold to diagnose and treat diabetes during pregnancy
A new study finds a consistent association between higher blood glucose (sugar) levels during pregnancy…
Surveillance unlikely to detect European changes in birth defect linked to Zika virus
A new study finds that surveillance systems in Europe could detect increases in microcephaly (babies…
E-cigarette use linked to successful attempts to quit smoking
Growth in the use of e-cigarettes in England has been associated with a higher rate…