Danitza Nebor's personal mission to find a cure for sickle-cell disease
For Jackson Laboratory postdoctoral associate Danitza Nébor, Ph.D., studying sickle-cell disease isn't just a research project: It's a personal mission.
Jun 19, 2015
Archive: 19/06/2015
Autism: The value of an integrated approach to diagnosis
Researchers at Inserm (Inserm Unit 930 "Imaging and Brain") attached to François-Rabelais University and Tours Regional University Hospital have combined three clinical, neurophysiological and genetic approaches in order ...
Jun 19, 2015
Patients give high marks to prepping for surgery online
First-time surgery can be concerning to any patient. Knee surgery—even arthroscopic surgery to treat a torn meniscus—can require significant preparation and rehabilitation. According to a new study appearing in the June ...
Jun 19, 2015
Health records and genetic data from more than 100,000 Californians power medical research
By volunteering to mail saliva to researchers working with their health care provider, thousands of people in California have helped build one of the nation's most powerful medical research tools. The researchers have now ...
Jun 19, 2015
French families sue state to recognize surrogate births
The families of surrogate children who have been effectively denied French citizenship have gone to the country's highest court to challenge the law denying birth certificates for babies born abroad.
Jun 19, 2015
Liberians still face travel headaches even after Ebola
Robtel Neajai Pailey hadn't been back home to Liberia since Ebola engulfed the country's capital in July, fearful that doing so could make it harder for her to travel as countries around the globe clamped down on visitors ...
Jun 19, 2015
The simplistic beauty of a free radical
The study was conducted at the Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea. Director Kimoon Kim and his team experimented with nitric oxide, a highly stable molecule ...
Jun 19, 2015
