A team of scientists from Caltech (California Institute of Technology) have developed a “barcode chip” that represents e new milestone in diagnostic medical testing. This chip uses very little blood to calculate the concentrations for dozens of proteins. Among these proteins, the ones that mark presence of heart diseases and cancer are measured. And all [...]

We’ve all seen movies where certain indigenous people mix up a cocktail of some plants and come up with a cure for practically anything. It seems that Hollywood is not always wrong. Scientists at the University of Washington are currently updating a traditional Chinese medicine in order to create a drug that is more than 1200 [...]

We’ve all seen science fiction movies where people traveling great distances in space were sleeping in “refrigerators” that kept them at the same age when they woke up as they were at the start of the journey hundreds of years ago. Scientists have been working at transforming this technique into reality and even tough they [...]

Scientists have managed to develop stereo mammograms that can help increase detection of breast cancer by 23-percent while the false alarms percent decreases with 46. We all know that mammograms aren’t very comfortable and apparently not always that accurate, so it looks like this new method in the works is welcomed.
“It’s a major issue in [...]

The extremely sunny weather last year has lead to a loss of Arctic ice in a degree that has never been seen before.
“In a warmer world, the thinner sea ice is becoming increasingly sensitive to year-to-year variations in weather and cloud patterns,” says NCAR’s Jennifer Kay, the lead author of the study. “A single unusually [...]