Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Humans
Letters from the January 1, 2005, issue of Science News
Just the facts My response as an educator to much of the outrageous science depicted in so many of the recent blockbuster hits is very different from that of many of the scientists quoted (“What’s Wrong with This Picture?” SN: 10/16/04, p. 250: What’s Wrong with This Picture?). The films provide a wonderful source of […]
- Health & Medicine
One-Two Punch: Vaccine fights herpes with antibodies, T cells
An experimental vaccine against genital herpes shows promise in animal tests.
- Health & Medicine
Expanding the therapeutic arsenal
Two experimental drugs can send chronic myeloid leukemia into remission in patients who don't benefit from the best currently available drugs.
- Health & Medicine
Drug counters severe platelet shortage
An experimental drug called AMG531 revs up production of platelets in people with severe shortages of these clotting agents.
- Health & Medicine
Viagra eases lung pressure in patients
Viagra eases increased blood pressure in the lungs, a condition that affects about one-third of adults with sickle-cell disease.
- Health & Medicine
Taking on a lethal blood cancer
A drug called bortezomib can induce remission of an aggressive kind of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Humans
Tobacco treaty on its way
An international tobacco-control treaty will go into effect on Feb. 28, 2005.
- Health & Medicine
Male contraceptive shows promise in monkeys
A shot that primes the immune system against a sperm protein might be the next male contraceptive.
- Anthropology
Fossil ape makes evolutionary debut
Newly discovered fossils from an ape that lived in what's now northeastern Spain around 13 million years ago may hold clues to the evolutionary roots of living apes and people.
- Anthropology
Apes, monkeys split earlier than fossils had indicated
A new genetic analysis pushes back the estimated time at which ancient lineages of monkeys and apes diverged to between 29 million and 34.5 million years ago, at least 4 million years earlier than previously thought.
- Health & Medicine
Vitamin C and diabetes: Risky mix?
Vitamin C supplements may place people with diabetes at increased risk of heart disease.
- Health & Medicine
Vinegar as a Sweet Solution?
A spoonful of vinegar can help the blood sugar go down.
