For the first time ever, an extensive genome-wide search has been undertaken to find the…
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One In Five Rooms Is ‘Highly Contaminated’ With Hidden Mold
Surely your bathroom is fungus-free once you’ve wiped the mold off the tiles? Not according…
Osteoporosis Drugs Linked to Jaw Infection, Study Shows
Dentistry researchers have identified the slimy culprits killing the jawbones of some people taking drugs…
New Treatment Could Reduce Chronic Lung Disease In Premature Babies
A less traumatic way of delivering surfactant, a lung lubricant that premature babies need to…
Butter-flavored Popcorn Ingredient Suspected Cause Of Lung Disease
An unusually high incidence of lung disease has been diagnosed in workers at popcorn factories….
Simulations May Explain Nanoparticles ‘Pinned’ To Graphene
It was hard to understand how a graphene sheet — a featureless, flat sheet of…
Haunted By Hallucinations: Children In The Pediatric ICU Traumatized By Delusions
Nearly one in three children admitted to pediatric intensive care will experience delusions or hallucinations,…
Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
Nasa says the mission to service the Hubble telescope will occur in September at the…
Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own
Similarities between half-billion-year-old and recent food webs point to deep principles underpinning the structure of…
‘Destruct’ Triggers May Be Jammed In Tumor Cells, Geneticists Say
By monitoring gene activity levels and changes in chromatin — the protein spools that the…