Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Gene linked to some smokers’ lung cancer

    FGFR1 is amped up in a subset of cancers; inhibiting its proteins can shrink tumors in mice.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Salvia says high

    Laboratory researchers show that the psychoactive substance in a popular, largely legal recreational drug causes a short but intense period of hallucination.

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  3. Humans

    Apartments share tobacco smoke

    Children in nonsmoking families have higher levels of secondhand exposure if they live in multifamily dwellings.

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  4. Life

    Cells reprogrammed to treat diabetes

    The testes may be an alternate source of insulin production.

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  5. Life

    Rooting for swarm intelligence in plants

    Researchers argue for a type of vegetative group decision making usually associated with humans and social animals, and go out on a limb by also proposing that information may be transmitted electrically.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    A protein’s ebb and flow

    Buildup in the brain of a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease may be due to reduced clearance rather than overproduction of the protein.

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  7. Life

    Jigsaw genetics

    Fragments of a fetus's genome can be pieced together from the mother's blood to allow prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    New blood test may predict some heart risk

    People carrying high levels of a protein called cardiac troponin T are more likely to have heart failure or die from cardiovascular problems, two studies show.

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  9. Tech

    Terrorist-resistant ‘source’ of moly-99 hits the U.S.

    Molybdenum-99 is the radioactive feedstock for the most widely used diagnostic nuclear-medicine isotope. On December 6, the first commercial batch of moly-99 that had been produced using a terrorist-resistant process arrived in the United States from a reactor in South Africa.

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  10. Life

    Friendly fire blamed in some H1N1 deaths

    A poorly targeted immune response to the 2009 pandemic flu virus caused young adults and the middle-aged to suffer more than usual.

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  11. Life

    Wealth and ambition

    A week in fancier digs inspires rats to seek richer rewards.

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  12. Humans

    Food security wanes as world warms

    Global warming may have begun outpacing the ability of farmers to adapt, new studies report.

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