While cancer touches the lives of many humans, it is also a major threat to wild animal populations as well, according to a recent study. A new article compiles information on cancer in wildlife and suggests that cancer poses a conservation threat to certain species.
The stomach ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori is not transmitted through drinking water as previously thought, but rather through vomit and possibly feces. It is therefore possible to prevent the spread of the bacterium in developing countries through some fairly simple measures.
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To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch.
More people in the past decade have lowered their level of “bad” LDL cholesterol to acceptable ranges. In the United States, the overall compliance rate of LDL at target levels has nearly doubled since 1996. About one third of high-risk patients still need to attain LDL goals through adequate treatment.
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Nickel, an important trace nutrient for the single cell organisms that produce methane, may be a useful isotopic marker to pinpoint the past origins of these methanogenic microbes, according to researchers.
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What are the costs of caring? A new project explores nurses’ experience of distress and aims to determine if empathy with patients is associated with traumatic experience in nurses.
An enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Scientists provide evidence that this magnificent plume is fed by a salty ocean. The discovery could have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life as well as our understanding of how planetary moons are formed.
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Scientists’ discovery of a cancer-causing gene — the first in its family to be linked to cancer — demonstrates how the panoramic view of genomics and the close-up perspective of molecular biology are needed to determine which genes are involved in cancer and which are mere bystanders.
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Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a new study.
Why the immune system of a pregnant woman does not attack her developing fetus is one of most remarkable features of pregnancy, and several underlying mechanisms have been described. Scientists have now identified a new mechanism to explain why the mouse maternal immune system does not attack the fetuses.
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