Much has been made in popular culture about millennials as they join the working world,…
Month: February 2017
Global vaccine injury system needed to improve public health
A global vaccine injury compensation system administered through the World Health Organization would address the…
Nematode resistance in soybeans beneficial even at low rates of infestation
Soybeans with resistance to soybean cyst nematodes seem to have a yield advantage compared to…
Gene mutations cause leukemia, but which ones?
New research sought to better understand one ‘typo’ in a standard leukemia assay, or test….
Contact tracing and targeted insecticide spraying can curb dengue outbreaks
Contact tracing — a process of identifying everyone who has come into contact with those…
Air pollution may have masked mid-20th Century sea ice loss
Humans may have been altering Arctic sea ice longer than previously thought, according to researchers…
Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery
Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no…
New link found between sex and viruses
Sexual reproduction and viral infections both rely on a functionally identical protein, according to new…
Almost 4 decades later, mini eyeless catfish gets a name
Discovered in a 1978-79 expedition, a pale, eyeless catfish that doesn’t even measure an inch…
Why is pancreatic cancer so hard to treat? Stroma provides new clues
Why are pancreatic tumors so resistant to treatment? One reason is that the ‘wound’-like tissue…