When most people think of wood-eating insects, they imagine termites that can destroy a home or business. However, as part
Month: March 2019
Kids’ concussion recovery like snakes and ladders game
New guidelines that reduce the amount of rest required for children recovering from a concussion have been developed by CanChild,
Forgetting uses more brain power than remembering
Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers at The University of Texas
FDA approves new drug for hard to treat breast cancer
A new immunotherapy drug, approved by US regulators on Friday, may get around that by training the patients’ immune system
When a cell’s ‘fingerprint’ can be a weapon against cancer
A research team led by Nuno Barbosa Morais, group leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) in
For infants, distinguishing between friends and strangers is a laughing matter
Infants as young as five months can differentiate laughter between friends and that between strangers, finds a new study by
Could an eye doctor diagnose Alzheimer’s before you have symptoms?
A quick eye exam might one day allow eye doctors to check up on both your eyeglasses prescription and your
Winning the arms race: Analysis reveals key gene for bacterial infection
To successfully infect their hosts, bacteria need to evade the host immune system in order to reproduce and spread. Over
How to train your robot (to feed you dinner)
About 1 million adults in the United States need someone to help them eat, according to census data from 2010.
Link between dry eyes and migraine
The 10-year study of almost 73,000 people cared for at ophthalmology clinics in North Carolina found that—after accounting for certain
