Ashley Yeager
Experimental cancer blood test shows promise, but also hits some snags
A blood test has detected cancer in individuals who had no history or symptoms of cancer. A trial of the ...
Infographic: 3 factors affecting how viruses jump from animals to humans
Raina Plowright of Montana State University is working with infectious disease experts, ecologists, and a range of other scientists to ...
Injecting tumors with a flu shot ignites cancer-killing immune response in mice
Nearly 5,000 years ago, Egyptian physician Imhotep observed a grotesque but revealing detail about tumors: some grew so large that ...
Plants communicate to fight off pests. Their ‘conversations’ might help us safeguard our food crops
When a beetle larva bites into the leaf of a goldenrod plant .... [t]he bite damages the goldenrod .... causing ...
Losing sense of taste and smell could be ‘early warning sign’ of coronavirus infection
Nearly two weeks ago, Alessandro Laurenzi, a biologist working as a consultant in Bologna, Italy, was mowing the grass in his ...
Infographic: How the coronavirus appears ‘seemingly out of nowhere’
When Emma Hodcroft read that, seemingly out of nowhere, a rash of cases of the novel coronavirus had popped up in Britain ...
Infographic: Tracking the global spread of the coronavirus through its genetic signature
Several years ago, Richard Neher, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and his colleagues wanted to ...
Children from extramarital affairs not as common as we think, study shows
That old joke about the milkman fathering many of a town’s children—it’s far from true, a new study reaffirms. Researchers ...
Rethinking what causes Parkinson’s: Studies suggest we may be looking in the wrong place
During her time as a postdoc at the University of Basel in Switzerland, Sarah Shahmoradian decided to study the abnormal aggregates of ...
Researchers may get better access to marijuana if DEA follows through on latest pledge
[August 26], the Drug Enforcement Administration announced plans to create new regulations to expand scientific and medical research on marijuana ...
Exercise creates a ‘unique microbiome’ in our guts. We don’t know why.
Teaming up with microbiologists and toxicologists from Rutgers and a pathologist from Oklahoma City, [researcher Sara] Campbell designed an experiment ...
Chasing links between mental illness and microbes living in our guts
“If you would have asked a neuroscientist 10 years ago whether they thought the gut microbiota could be linked to ...
Are we fighting diseases wrong? Researcher suggests a better approach is building tolerance to infection
[Researcher Janelle] Ayres was running the experiment to determine what causes genetically identical mice to respond differently to the same ...
Can the flu cause Parkinson’s and other brain disorders?
One of the earliest links between influenza and neural dysfunction was a correlation between the 1918 Spanish flu, caused by ...
China is growing crops on the moon in preparation for its proposed lunar base
There’s cotton growing on the far side of the moon—the first time plants have sprouted there. On January 3, a ...
Exercise as a treatment for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s?
Researchers have long recognized that exercise sharpens certain cognitive skills. Indeed, [researcher Hiroshi] Maejima and his colleagues have found that ...
Life-forming water droplets could have jump-started early evolution
Reactions in tiny droplets of water may have given rise to some of the molecules essential for the origin of ...
