The cells which make up our body vary significantly. A liver cell does not look like a muscle cell and
Month: April 2019
Gender parity: Not a foregone conclusion in all fields
Women constitute approximately 47 percent of the workforce yet they are still underrepresented at the highest levels of business, government,
Malaria: It’s all about the mosquito
Mosquitoes transmit malaria, but not every malaria-infected mosquito is the same. An international team led by Elena Levashina from the
Pregnant women with long commutes to work at increased risk for adverse birth outcomes
In a study published in Economics & Human Biology researchers from Lehigh University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that
Natural gene therapy for intractable skin disease discovered
Pathogenic gene mutations causing a type of intractable skin disease can be eliminated from some parts of patients’ skin as
Fish slime: An answer to antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly pressing issue for humanity. A recent study dives into the constituents of fish slime to
Seeing through food and drug fakes and frauds
If we could tell authentic from counterfeit or adulterated drugs and foods just by looking at them, we could save
New evidence on the association of shortened sleep time and obstructive sleep apnea with sleepiness and cardiometabolic risk factors
A new study appearing in the journal CHEST®, published by Elsevier, may change the way we think about sleep disorders.
Depression, obesity, chronic pain could be treated by targeting the same key protein
Major depression, obesity and chronic pain are all linked to the effects of one protein, called “FK506-binding protein 51,” or
What’s in this plant? The best automated system for finding potential drugs
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have developed a new computational mass-spectrometry system for
