Statistics related to medical risks and care can often unnecessarily frighten people, and questionable journalism doesn’t help. Take the case of the ongoing debate bout the alleged dangers of in…
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Surgery is the most effective treatment for metabolic liver disease, says new study
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Metabolic (bariatric) surgery is more effective than medications and lifestyle interventions for the treatment of advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. A new paper, published today in…
Self-navigating catamaran can carry cargo into war zones
Alive team members (back row, from left) Wyeth McKinley, Oli MacGregor, Freddy Angarita-Cuesta, Jessica Kies, (front row) Alan Lopez, Anna Frey and Scarlett Spindler pose next to their self-navigating, cargo-carrying…
Alaska Airlines nudges passengers to mobile boarding passes
A traveller stands at an Alaska Airlines kiosk at San Francisco International Airport during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco, Dec. 22, 2020. Alaska Airlines is pushing passengers to load…
Heaviest Schrödinger cat achieved by putting a small crystal into a superposition of two oscillation states
Scientists at ETH Zurich have made progress in creating heavier Schrödinger cats, which can be alive (top) and dead (bottom) at the same time. Credit: ETH Zurich Even if you…
Decapitated and dismembered bodies found at Maya pyramid |
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Preclinical promise and the unveiling of a prognostic gene signature
Omomyc induces growth arrest in melanoma human cell lines in vitro. (A) Growth inhibition by transgenic Omomyc at 10 d by Crystal Violet staining. (B) Early effect of Omomyc on…
Sleeping pill reduces levels of Alzheimer’s proteins
What: Researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will discuss the study which involved a sleeping aid known as suvorexant that is already approved by the Food and Drug…
Comb jellies have a bizarre nervous system unlike any other animal
Shimmering, gelatinous comb jellies wouldn’t appear to have much to hide. But their mostly see-through bodies cloak a nervous system unlike that of any other known animal, researchers report in…
