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Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is a broad term encompassing a variety of medical modalities. They are treatments that are used along with standard medical treatments but are not considered to be standard treatments. Herbalism is an example of alternative medicine.
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APR 19, 2015Neuroscience
Sarcasm might feel like a natural way to communicate to many people, but it's sometimes lost on stroke survivors. Now, a ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 17, 2015Neuroscience
Time to kiss writer's block goodbye.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have found ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 16, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A new collaborative study describes a way that lung tissue can regenerate after injury. The team found that lung tissue ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 14, 2015Immunology
Scientists have found an alternative track for potentially aggressive T-cells in which the cells can be recruited to hel ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 14, 2015Health & Medicine
The body of the tiny 78-year-old woman, gray hair falling over stiffened shoulders, was brought to a hillside at Western ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 09, 2015Microbiology
Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have shown that the use of ‘sequential treatments' - using alternating do ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 08, 2015Immunology
An over-the-counter drug indicated to treat allergy symptoms limited hepatitis C virus activity in infected mice, accord ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 07, 2015Cancer
Cancer cells often break free from their original locations and circulate through the bloodstream, allowing them to form ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 03, 2015Neuroscience
The war on PTSD, Gulf War Illness, and other illnesses suffered by veterans just got a boost from an unexpected source-l ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 01, 2015Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 01, 2015Chemistry & Physics
Physicists have shed light on the intricate dynamics underpinning a mysterious tongue condition that has been puzzling t ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 31, 2015Cancer
Fasting in combination with chemotherapy has already been shown to kill cancer cells, but a pair of new studies in mice ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 31, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have identified blood-based biomarkers in patients with active tuberculosis (ATB) that could lead to new blo ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
French prosecutors have reported that first officer Andreas Lubitz appeared to want to destroy the aircraft carrying 149 ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 27, 2015Neuroscience
The search for a fountain of youth has bedeviled kings and alchemists for centuries. Around 80 years ago, Cornell Univer ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 23, 2015Microbiology
to exclude other, more plausible alternatives, and I just do not think they have done that."Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 20, 2015Cancer
A pioneering class of drugs that target cancers with mutations in the BRCA breast cancer genes could also work against t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 20, 2015Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 18, 2015Cancer
Cancer stem cells often cause tumors to form and are particularly difficult to destroy. They resist chemotherapy, allowi ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 16, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magneti ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 16, 2015Neuroscience
Two groups have recently made strides with amyloid beta (aβ), the supposed main villain in Alzheimer's disease. But whil ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 12, 2015Health & Medicine
Electrical engineer Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh calls the stinking mixture puddled in jars inside his laboratory "fecal inocu ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 12, 2015Health & Medicine
Systems-on-a-chip for extremely critical applications would use 28 percent less energy and 48 percent less chip ar ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 11, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researc ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
APR 19, 2015
Neuroscience
Sarcasm might feel like a natural way to communicate to many people, but it's sometimes lost on stroke survivors. Now, a
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 17, 2015
Neuroscience
Time to kiss writer's block goodbye.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have found ...
Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have found ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 16, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A new collaborative study describes a way that lung tissue can regenerate after injury. The team found that lung tissue
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 14, 2015
Immunology
Scientists have found an alternative track for potentially aggressive T-cells in which the cells can be recruited to hel
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 14, 2015
Health & Medicine
The body of the tiny 78-year-old woman, gray hair falling over stiffened shoulders, was brought to a hillside at Western
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 09, 2015
Microbiology
Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have shown that the use of ‘sequential treatments' - using alternating do
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 08, 2015
Immunology
An over-the-counter drug indicated to treat allergy symptoms limited hepatitis C virus activity in infected mice, accord
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 07, 2015
Cancer
Cancer cells often break free from their original locations and circulate through the bloodstream, allowing them to form
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 03, 2015
Neuroscience
The war on PTSD, Gulf War Illness, and other illnesses suffered by veterans just got a boost from an unexpected source-l
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
Physicists have shed light on the intricate dynamics underpinning a mysterious tongue condition that has been puzzling t
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 31, 2015
Cancer
Fasting in combination with chemotherapy has already been shown to kill cancer cells, but a pair of new studies in mice
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 31, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have identified blood-based biomarkers in patients with active tuberculosis (ATB) that could lead to new blo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
French prosecutors have reported that first officer Andreas Lubitz appeared to want to destroy the aircraft carrying 149
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
The search for a fountain of youth has bedeviled kings and alchemists for centuries. Around 80 years ago, Cornell Univer
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 23, 2015
Microbiology
to exclude other, more plausible alternatives, and I just do not think they have done that."
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 20, 2015
Cancer
A pioneering class of drugs that target cancers with mutations in the BRCA breast cancer genes could also work against t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 18, 2015
Cancer
Cancer stem cells often cause tumors to form and are particularly difficult to destroy. They resist chemotherapy, allowi
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magneti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Two groups have recently made strides with amyloid beta (aβ), the supposed main villain in Alzheimer's disease. But whil
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
Electrical engineer Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh calls the stinking mixture puddled in jars inside his laboratory "fecal inocu
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
Systems-on-a-chip for extremely critical applications would use 28 percent less energy and 48 percent less chip ar ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 11, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider