Can’t Cure Reliably: Current Dosages for New Antimalarial Drug Are Insufficient
According to researchers who have analyzed clinical trial data for the new antimalarial drug tafenoquine, higher doses of the drug are necessary in order to…
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Cancer Research Breakthrough: Scientists Create First Human Bone Marrow ‘Organoids’
Researchers at Oxford University and the University of Birmingham have made a major breakthrough in cancer treatment by creating the first human bone marrow “organoids”…
Which Animals Will Best Survive Climate Change?
A new study investigates which animals will best survive climate change. As the average global temperature increases, extreme weather events like prolonged droughts and heavy…
Tropical Trees Are Dying Twice As Fast Due to Climate Change
According to new research, climate change may have caused rainforest trees to die more quickly starting in the 1980s. The results of a long-term international…
Queen Elizabeth I Identified As Author of 16th Century Tacitus’ Annals Translation
A new article in the Review of English Studies argues that a manuscript translation of Tacitus’s Annales, completed in the late sixteenth century and preserved…
New Study Shows How Cancer Survivors Develop Opioid Addictions
Opioids play an important role in how cancer patients manage pain, but the ongoing opioid epidemic has raised concerns about their potential for abuse. Pain…
Teen Vaping Actually Doesn’t Lead to Smoking According to New Study
A new study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research on November 4, 2019, published by Oxford University Press, suggests that adolescent e-cigarette users are more…
Re-Cracking the Genetic Code – We May Have Only Begun to Scratch the Surface
Crack open a biology textbook and you will find a standard icon of molecular biology: the table summarizing the standard genetic code. This refers to…
Scientists in New York City Use Pheromones to Track Rats
A new paper published September 17, 2019, in The Journal of Urban Ecology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that rats can be baited to,…
