health

11/06/2016 - 12:58

Scientists explain in Science Advances how ground measurements and satellite data were used to create an atlas of a world brightened by... →

06/06/2016 - 18:54

When a bacterium comes under attack it produces a piece of genetic material that matches the genetic sequence of the invading virus. This... →

06/06/2016 - 13:30

To understand this loss, we must first define what we mean by “complexity” in the scientific sense. Consider a Rube Goldberg machine, in... →

23/05/2016 - 12:47

“There have been claims that [genetically engineered] crops have had adverse effects on human health,” the report says. “Sweeping... →

08/05/2016 - 12:11

The area where genomics-driven innovations have attracted the most attention is health. Rapid progress toward truly “personalized medicine... →

02/03/2016 - 17:34

Price reduction policies would affect non-Hispanic whites and blacks equally. In comparison, a mass media campaign would be about 35... →

09/02/2016 - 13:45

What frogs do without thinking, human researchers are trying, with a great deal of thinking, to replicate. The prize is not the freezing... →

08/02/2016 - 13:38

For the study, the researchers genetically modified normal mice so they would respond to a compound called AP20187, which was originally... →

18/01/2016 - 14:22

The Agili-C surgical implant is a biological scaffold onto which the body’s own stem cells grow and regenerate the damaged bone and... →

18/01/2016 - 14:12

Identification of an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease could potentially allow physicians to diagnose the debilitating disorder... →

04/01/2016 - 13:23

Taking C.P.R. Outside the Hospital A few months ago, after a swim in the pool at my health club, I walked past the exercise area and saw a... →

02/12/2015 - 15:54

When does old age begin? The poet Dante believed old age started at 45. A survey of the British public concluded that it starts at 59 – the... →

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