Health & Medicine
- Health & Medicine
Stopping rotavirus before it hits
A vaccine against rotavirus shows potent protection against the diarrhea-causing pathogen in its first year of widespread use.
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- Chemistry
Nicotine’s new appeal
Mimicking the addictive compound’s action in the brain could lead to new drugs for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia.
- Earth
The Case for Very Hot Water
Turning down the thermostat on a home's water heater could foster the growth of toxic bacteria in home plumbing.
- Health & Medicine
Drug may offer MS turnaround
A drug used against leukemia can ease disability in early-stage multiple sclerosis patients over a three-year span.
- Health & Medicine
Closest look yet at lung cancer genes
A large study offers clues to the genetics behind lung cancer.
- Health & Medicine
Bacteria that do logic
A team engineers microbes to perform AND, OR, NAND and NOR logic operations.
- Health & Medicine
Streamlined polio vaccine fights outbreaks
Back to basics: A simplified polio vaccine works better than the standard approach and overcomes an unforeseen shortcoming in the widely used oral vaccine.
- Humans
Bypassing paralyzed nerves
Implanted electrode helps paralyzed monkey clench its forearm muscles.
- Health & Medicine
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
- Health & Medicine
Vitamin D deficiency
Parkinson’s disease patients are more commonly lacking in vitamin D than Alzheimer’s patients or healthy people.
- Health & Medicine
Bad air for growing brains and minds
Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.
