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Observation Study
An observational study is done by observing individuals and/or measuring a given outcome. In observational studies, no attempt is made by the researchers to intervene or alter the outcome. An example of an observational study is surveying a random group of individuals about what they eat for breakfast and determining if their breakfast habits impacted body weight.
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SEP 25, 2017Cardiology
You don’t have to be a marathon runner to reap the benefits of exercise. Even the lightest forms of physical activ ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 25, 2017Immunology
Killing two birds with one stone may be possible for Dengue virus and Zika virus, two pathogens spread by the same mosqu ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 24, 2017Microbiology
The group A Streptococcus pathogen can cause a range of illnesses, from a relatively minor case of strep throat to a fle ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 24, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Mysterious nanotubes are starting to get serious research attention, but little is known about their function.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 24, 2017Space & Astronomy
While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 22, 2017Cancer
With cancer putting up such strong fight, scientists are resorting to more unconventional therapies to give them the edg ...SEP 22, 2017Cancer
It’s an unfortunate and tragic side-effect that doctors and cancer patients know too well: the treatments that can ...SEP 22, 2017Cardiology
Why can’t humans regrow their organs like some organisms can? It certainly would help repair some of the damage do ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful space telescope ever built, and it will succeed NASA’s Hu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 20, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
By studying the genetics behind butterfly wing patterns, researchers understand how a single gene can create limitless p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 20, 2017Plants & Animals
In an allusion to the famous underwater lost city of Atlantis, scientists have dubbed the recently found acropolis of Gl ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from both McGill University in Canada and the University of Exeter in the U.K. used the Hubble Space Telesco ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 15, 2017Cardiology
Sepsis is the tenth most common cause of death in the United States, but most of those deaths aren’t directly due ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 15, 2017Space & Astronomy
Although Venus was long regarded as Earth’s sister planet, planetary scientists are unraveling the Venusian secret ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s got a plethora of landers, orbiters, and rovers studying the Martian surface for clues about its environmen ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 13, 2017Plants & Animals
Squirrels are known for their love of nuts; they pick up all different kinds from the ground and then cache them away fo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 13, 2017Neuroscience
Pregnancy, even when routine, comes with some risk. Expectant parents will, of course, have some concern over health fac ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 12, 2017Neuroscience
One of the most important functions of the brain is to get us around our environment. It powers the muscles, processes w ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 11, 2017Immunology
A unique quality of the main toxic “ingredient” in fire ant venom makes it the newest, if unlikely, candidat ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 11, 2017Cardiology
With more frequent observation of the fetal heartbeat during pregnancy made possible by easy-to-use home monitoring, sci ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 10, 2017Microbiology
Inflammation is a common feature of many diseases, and researchers wanted to know more about whether dormant bacteria ar ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
The longstanding question of whether we’re alone in the universe brings up a stressing amount of follow-up questio ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 08, 2017Health & Medicine
More than half of all heart attack patients die within five years of the event. This is a frightening statistic, but Uni ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 07, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Little is known about the mechanisms that underlie schizophrenia, which can be a debilitating psychiatric disorder. New ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2017
Cardiology
You don’t have to be a marathon runner to reap the benefits of exercise. Even the lightest forms of physical activ
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 25, 2017
Immunology
Killing two birds with one stone may be possible for Dengue virus and Zika virus, two pathogens spread by the same mosqu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 24, 2017
Microbiology
The group A Streptococcus pathogen can cause a range of illnesses, from a relatively minor case of strep throat to a fle
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mysterious nanotubes are starting to get serious research attention, but little is known about their function.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 22, 2017
Cancer
With cancer putting up such strong fight, scientists are resorting to more unconventional therapies to give them the edg
...
SEP 22, 2017
Cancer
It’s an unfortunate and tragic side-effect that doctors and cancer patients know too well: the treatments that can
...
SEP 22, 2017
Cardiology
Why can’t humans regrow their organs like some organisms can? It certainly would help repair some of the damage do
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful space telescope ever built, and it will succeed NASA’s Hu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
By studying the genetics behind butterfly wing patterns, researchers understand how a single gene can create limitless p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2017
Plants & Animals
In an allusion to the famous underwater lost city of Atlantis, scientists have dubbed the recently found acropolis of Gl
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from both McGill University in Canada and the University of Exeter in the U.K. used the Hubble Space Telesco
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 15, 2017
Cardiology
Sepsis is the tenth most common cause of death in the United States, but most of those deaths aren’t directly due
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 15, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Although Venus was long regarded as Earth’s sister planet, planetary scientists are unraveling the Venusian secret
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s got a plethora of landers, orbiters, and rovers studying the Martian surface for clues about its environmen
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2017
Plants & Animals
Squirrels are known for their love of nuts; they pick up all different kinds from the ground and then cache them away fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2017
Neuroscience
Pregnancy, even when routine, comes with some risk. Expectant parents will, of course, have some concern over health fac
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 12, 2017
Neuroscience
One of the most important functions of the brain is to get us around our environment. It powers the muscles, processes w
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 11, 2017
Immunology
A unique quality of the main toxic “ingredient” in fire ant venom makes it the newest, if unlikely, candidat
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 11, 2017
Cardiology
With more frequent observation of the fetal heartbeat during pregnancy made possible by easy-to-use home monitoring, sci
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 10, 2017
Microbiology
Inflammation is a common feature of many diseases, and researchers wanted to know more about whether dormant bacteria ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The longstanding question of whether we’re alone in the universe brings up a stressing amount of follow-up questio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 08, 2017
Health & Medicine
More than half of all heart attack patients die within five years of the event. This is a frightening statistic, but Uni
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 07, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Little is known about the mechanisms that underlie schizophrenia, which can be a debilitating psychiatric disorder. New
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch