Insurers use high drug costs to deter some Obamacare patients, economist says
AUSTIN, Texas -- An economist at The University of Texas at Austin will brief members of Congress on how insurers are using high out-of-pocket prescription...
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Scientists design first reserve network balancing fishing benefits, species protection
Credit: Claudio Contreras-Koob, International League of Conservation Photographers For the first time, Smithsonian researchers and collaborators have designed a marine reserve network to protect sp..
Corals survived Caribbean climate change
Credit: Monica Medina, NMNH Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic...
Students, teachers invited to ‘Grow With It!’
Credit: ASA Middle school students can experience the richness of science with real-world applications. Agronomy - Grow With It!, a new book from the American...
Nutty stimulant revealed as anticancer tool
Credit: Combination of Wikimedia images Arecoline -- the stimulant component of areca nuts -- has anticancer properties, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University...
Ice is no match for CSU-developed coating
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - Anyone who's ever chipped ice off a windshield or nervously watched a plane get de-iced, take note: Colorado State University researchers...
Tracking the flow of quantum information
Credit: Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein/Yale University New Haven, Conn. - If objects in motion are like rainwater flowing through a gutter and landing in...
Estimating survival in patients with lung cancer, brain metastases
A new article published online by JAMA Oncology updates a tool to estimate survival in patients with lung cancer and brain metastases. Lung cancer is...
Coral genomes reveal how populations rebound after environmental catastrophes
New genome-sequence data show that Caribbean corals that have survived mass-extinction events caused by environmental change can rebound and expand their populations. An international team...
BC scientists play major role in international effort to map the human epigenome
BC scientists and their colleagues from across the globe have made a major leap forward in understanding how the human body's trillions of cells develop...
3-D imaging technique maps migration of DNA-carrying material at the center of cells
Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF Scientists have mapped the reorganization of genetic material that takes place when a stem cell matures into a nerve cell. Detailed...
Uncombable hair gene discovered
Credit: Photo: private Many parents know from their own experience that it is not always easy to comb children's hair. Yet with patience and nerves...
Ducklings ‘maintain two separate memory banks of visual information’
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with only one eye do not...
Study links health literacy to higher levels of health insurance coverage
Uninsured individuals who had greater knowledge about health insurance and financial issues were more likely to gain coverage after health insurance exchanges opened under the...
T cell channel could be targeted to treat head and neck cancers
CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have discovered that an ion channel, active within T cells (white blood cells), could be targeted to reduce...
