The first 1,000 days after conception strongly influence a person’s life expectancy and disease susceptibility,…
Month: April 2017
Study examines impact of common risk factors on outcomes for home, birth center births
Women with some characteristics commonly thought to increase pregnancy risks — being over age 35;…
Gonorrhea manipulates an anti-infection mechanism in the female reproductive tract
The bacterium that causes gonorrhea infects the female reproductive tract by breaking connections between cells…
25 is ‘golden age’ for the ability to make random choices
People’s ability to make random choices or mimic a random process, such as coming up…
Hunting accounts for 83 and 58 percent declines in tropical mammal and bird populations
Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale…
Harnessing CRISPR for rapid detection of viral and bacterial infection
Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used to diagnose infections, such…
Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
While it’s easy to condense water from humid air, machines that harvest water from drier…
How nature engineered the original rotary motor
To function properly and propel the bacterium, the flagellum requires all of its components to…
Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems…
New crispr-based diagnostic platform unveiled
A team of scientists has adapted a CRISPR protein that targets RNA (rather than DNA)…