


India’s New Pay-per-Paper Proposal Sparks Controversy
Indian researchers are criticizing a government proposal by which graduate
students who publish in select journals
will be paid extra money. Such a practice
could degrade the quality of research and increase scientific misconduct,
critics say.…

Biggest Myths About Food and Cancer
The Internet has an abundance of articles and posts about cancer. People want to educate themselves more about the harms and threats that simple everyday things may bring, that can potentially cause cancer.
Articles
about food and cancer…

Feeling Lonely? A Pill Could Help
Humans are social beings and loneliness can have a lasting impact on our physical well-being. According to scientists from the Brain Dynamics Lab, modern life is leading people toward greater isolation which can trigger many disorders. Their…

Chinese Scientists Clone GM Macaques to Study Mental Disorders in a World’s First
Researchers from the Chinese
Academy of Sciences' Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai have been the first
to clone genetically-altered primates. Five infant macaques share the exact
same genes, derived from a fibroblast taken from the skin…

Study Finds Opponents Of GM Foods Know The Least About Them
Researchers from the University of Colorado have published interesting results from their survey on acceptance of genetically modified (GM) foods. They found that the most extreme opponents of GM foods actually know the least about the science…

New Nanotech Drives Healing By “Talking” To Wounds
Researchers from Imperial College London have developed a new material that interacts with injured tissues to promote wound healing. It could change the way traditional medical materials interact with the body and revolutionize the way injuries…

Studying Crocodile Blood Could Lead To New Cancer Treatments
A new study has shown that extracts from crocodile white blood cells can reduce the growth of human cancer cells. Researchers are looking closer into the matter in hopes of finding novel cancer therapies in the future.
The WHO has…

Virtual Reality Tumors – New Way to Observe Cancer
Researchers from Cambridge have a new tool in the fight against cancer. Virtual reality (VR) simulation which can show detailed maps of the cells in a tumor. This way structure can be explored and analyzed from an entirely new perspective.…

World’s Smallest DNA Tic-Tac-Toe Game Board
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new technique for shaping structures out of strands of DNA (DNA origami). In the game of tic-tac-toe on a DNA board, they reshaped an already-constructed…
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