Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Medicine Nobel goes to cellular transport research
Honor given to three scientists who discovered how machinery moves cargo around cells.
- Health & Medicine
Fractals can catch cancer
Analyzing shapes of cell borders may prove useful in cancer diagnosis.
- Health & Medicine
Cellular transport research wins Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology
Guest post by Tina Hesman Saey and Nathan Seppa.
- Health & Medicine
Good bacteria from poop stop resistant infection
Pills fashioned from beneficial microbes in feces overcome C. difficile infections.
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Why women want to sniff my baby
Tiny babies smell very, very good. So good that scientists really want to know why some women find this smell irresistible.
- Health & Medicine
Altered wine chemical helps kill cancer
Molecule brings its parent, resveratrol, into cells.
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- Neuroscience
An on-off switch for eating
By triggering or silencing certain brain cells, scientists can get mice to feed or stop feeding regardless of hunger.
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Dextrose rub helps newborns with low blood sugar
Massaging the sugary gel into babies’ mouths may lessen the need for intravenous infusions of glucose, a study shows.
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