Yale researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity.
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Mining 25 Years of Data Uncovers A New Predictor of Age of Onset for Huntington Disease
Investigators at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics (CMMT) and BC Children’s Hospital have examined more than 25 years of data to reveal new insights into predicting the age of onset for Huntington disease.
Stanford Researchers Map Symbiotic Relationships Between Trees and Microbes Worldwide
In and around the tangled roots of the forest floor, fungi and bacteria grow with trees, exchanging nutrients for carbon in a vast, global marketplace.
Natural Compound Found in Broccoli Reawakens the Function of Potent Tumor Suppressor
Your mother was right; broccoli is good for you.
Scientists Find 238 Tons of Plastic Waste on Remote Indian Ocean Islands
The Cocos Keeling Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, are covered with an estimated 414 million pieces of plastic pollution, weighing 238 tons, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Scientists Develop Technology to Capture Tumor Cells
Instead of searching for a needle in a haystack, what if you were able to sweep the entire haystack to one side, leaving only the needle behind? That’s the strategy researchers in the University of Georgia College of Engineering followed in developing a new microfluidic device that separates elusive circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a sample of whole blood.
