New assay may lead to a cure for debilitating inflammatory joint disease

Current treatments for rheumatoid arthritis relieve the inflammation that leads to joint destruction, but the immunologic…

Melting polar ice, rising sea levels not only climate change dangers

Climate change from political and ecological standpoints is a constant in the media and with good…

Deep brain stimulation for patients with chronic anorexia is safe and might improve symptoms

A small study in 16 people suggests that deep brain stimulation is safe and might help…

Who sweats more: Men or women?

Sex differences in heat loss responses are dependent on body size and not sex, meaning that…

Broad cancer vaccine may be out of reach

The high level of genetic diversity between individual tumors suggests that if it were to be…

Using Twitter may increase food-poisoning reporting

Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. citizens gets food poisoning every year, but very few report it.…

Researchers find new clues for nuclear waste cleanup

A new study of the chemistry of technetium-99 has improved understanding of the challenging nuclear waste…

SARS and MERS: What’s Next?

It may be difficult to remember now, but when SARS was first recognized in February 2003,…

Desks join the internet of things

The internet of things promises to revolutionize the way we live, connecting the objects in our…

As thin as an atom: A revolutionary semiconductor for electronics

Semiconductors that are as thin as an atom are no longer the stuff of science fiction.…