Her work with Dorothy Hodgkin unleashed a bonanza of lifesaving antibiotics and gave other female scientists a foothold in a…
America’s Health Care System is Broken: What Went Wrong and How We Can Fix It. Part 2: Health Insurance
Unlike most western democracies, health insurance in the United States is provided by a haphazard mix of employer-based plans, Medicare…
Anticoagulation-Related Nephropathy: The most common diagnosis you’ve never heard of
Anticoagulation-related nephropathy might just be the most common diagnosis you’ve never heard of. Formerly known as warfarin-induced nephropathy, until it…
Early-life exposure to microbiota restricts colon cancer later in life, study finds
Exposure to microbiota, or microorganisms such as bacteria, in the early stages of life plays a crucial role in establishing…
Having great-grandparents, cousins with Alzheimer’s linked to higher risk
Having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease has been known to raise a person’s risk of developing the disease, but new…
Infants’ advances in speech processing play role in language-cognition link
A new study provides the first evidence that infants’ increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their native language…
Found: The missing ingredient to grow blood vessels
Researchers have discovered an ingredient vital for proper blood vessel formation that explains why numerous promising treatments have failed. The…
Special effects: How a movie could reduce corruption
They don’t give an Academy Award for this, but a Nigerian feature film, “Water of Gold,” made viewers significantly more…
Danger of vitamin B12 deficiency
Using roundworms, one of Earth’s simplest animals, bioscientists have found the first direct link between a diet containing too little…
Therapy could improve and prolong sight in those suffering vision loss
Ganglion cells in the eye generate noise as the light-sensitive photoreceptors die in diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa. Now, neurobiologists…