Red alert: Body kills 'spontaneous' blood cancers on a daily basis
The immune system removes errant B cells before they become cancerous.
Greenhouse 'time machine' sheds light on corn domestication
Simulating the environment when corn was first exploited by people and then domesticated reveals that teosinte, may have looked more like corn then than it does today
Simple, at-home test will detect most colorectal cancers
Largest and most comprehensive review of 'FIT' finds it is an effective cancer-screening tool
Study suggests women 35+ are at decreased risk to have anatomically abnormal child
Women ages 35 and older are at a decreased risk of having a child with a major congenital malformation
Hot weather deaths projected to rise 257 percent by 2050s, experts warn
Demographic changes this century mean that elderly will be most vulnerable to impact of climate change
Greenland's fastest glacier reaches record speeds
Jakobshavn Isbræ (Jakobshavn Glacier) is moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean at a speed that appears to be the fastest ever recorded.
Whether you lose or gain weight depends on weekdays
Weight rhythms: Weight increases during weekends and decreases during weekdays
Your brain is fine-tuning its wiring throughout your life
The white matter microstructure, the communication pathways of the brain, continues to develop/mature as one ages.
High long-term survival of most common pediatric brain tumor, less when radiation was used
Largest-ever study of 20-year survival among pediatric low-grade glioma patients highlights radiation's association with higher mortality
Blue light may fight fatigue around the clock
Researchers find blue light exposure may be a countermeasure for fatigue, during the day and night
Appearance of Lyme disease rash can help predict how bacteria spreads through body
Lyme disease is often evident by a rash on the skin, but infections do not always produce similar rashes.
Shivering could elicit some of the same benefits as exercise
It's common knowledge that shivering in the cold is part of the body's attempt to stay warm.
German researchers near certain remains are those of Charlemagne
German researchers announced that bones they have been studying are almost certainly those of Charlemagne
Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers
Removable paint and self-healing plastics soon could be household products
Amputee feels in real-time with bionic hand
First amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information -- in real-­time -- with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm
Tree roots in the mountains 'acted like a thermostat' for millions of years
For the first time, scientists have discovered how tree roots in the mountains may play an important role in controlling long-term global temperatures.
Study shows yogurt consumption reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes
Higher consumption of yoghurt, compared with no consumption, can reduce the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes by 28%
Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot
The release of volatile organic compounds from forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide
NASA Mars orbiter examines dramatic new crater
HiRISE image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 30 m crater at the center of a radial burst
ASGE issues guidelines for safety in the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has issued "Guidelines for safety in the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit."
Wikipedia Is Top Health Site for Doctors, Too: IMS Report
Wikipedia isn't just a popular source of health information for patients, but apparently for physicians and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) too, according to a new report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Autism: Birth hormone may control the expression of the syndrome in animals
Chloride levels are elevated in the neurons of mice used in an animal model of autism
New guidelines for reducing stroke risks unique to women
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association scientific statement
Source of chlamydia reinfections may be GI tract
The current standard of care treatment for chlamydia sometimes fails to eradicate the disease, according to a review published ahead of print in Infection and Immunity, and the culprit may be in the gut.
DNA reveals new clues: Why did mammoths die out?
Why did mammoths and other large mammals of the tundra suddenly become extinct some 10,000 years ago?
Measles global deaths decline by 78%
Global deaths from measles dropped 78% between 2000 and 2012, the World Health Organization estimates.
A Catalog of Cancer Genes That’s Done, or Just a Start
Cancer is a disease of genes gone wrong. When certain genes mutate, they make cells behave in odd ways.
NASA's revived exoplanet-hunter sees its first world
It's alive! After suffering a critical injury last year, NASA's Kepler space telescope has just observed an exoplanet for the first time in months.
As Seen on TV, a Medical Mystery Involving Hip Implants Is Solved
By a strange coincidence, two leading medical journals on Thursday published case studies of the same arcane medical mystery.
Uterine Surgical Technique Is Linked to Abnormal Growths and Cancer Spread
Concerns are increasing among doctors about the safety of a procedure performed on tens of thousands of women a year in the United States who undergo surgery to remove fibroid tumors from the uterus, or to remove the entire uterus.
Researchers find storm periodicity in southern oceans
Storms in the Southern Hemisphere tend to occur on a 20 to 30 day periodic basis
Avian flu variant stalks Egypt
Since its first identification in Asia, highly pathogenic avian influenza-H5N1-has caused significant alarm in the scientific community.
Substance in photosynthesis was at work in ancient, methane-producing microbes
Discovery may shed light on climate change, agriculture, human health
Dating is refined for the Atapuerca site where Homo antecessor appeared
Sediment of Gran Dolina, where the first remains of Homo antecessor were discovered in 1994, is 900,000 years old
Plate tectonics set the thermostat for early animal life
Switch from snowball to hothouse conditions driven by continental collisions.
Met Office: Evidence 'suggests climate change link to storms'
Climate change is likely to be a factor in the extreme weather that has hit much of the UK in recent months, the Met Office's chief scientist has said.
Pacific trade winds stall global surface warming―for now
Heat stored in the western Pacific Ocean caused by an unprecedented strengthening of the equatorial trade winds appears to be largely responsible for the hiatus in surface warming observed over the past 13 years.