1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (617+ words) A landmark multi-institution study has revealed that the neighborhood a patient with metastatic breast cancer lives in may be written into the biology of the tumor itself....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (625+ words) Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most formidable diagnoses in modern medicine, and a new case report is drawing attention for a strikingly inventive solution to one of its most stubborn clinical problems....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (431+ words) Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, has long been regarded as a precisely local cancer treatment: a photosensitizing drug is delivered to a tumor, light of a specific wavelength activates it, and the resulting reactive oxygen species destroy the illuminated cells....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (651+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet the crop faces a future in which heat waves and drought increasingly arrive not as separate threats but as simultaneous ones....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (655+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to curing HIV infection has been the viral reservoir: a small population of cells carrying transcriptionally silent proviruses that antiretroviral therapy suppresses but cannot eliminate....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (81+ words) Bladder cancer remains one of the most challenging malignancies in modern urology, and a newly published comprehensive review in the Journal of Translational Medicine argues that the field is standing at the threshold of a diagnostic revolution. The review, led…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (529+ words) Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of RNA molecules. Through a process called alternative splicing, segments of a gene’s transcript can be included, skipped, or rearranged, generating…...