The realm of colorectal cancer screening recently has expanded in an unlikely direction; namely, the sense of smell.
The ability to use the sequenced human genome in medicine came one step closer to reality with the recent announcement of a new genetic screen for "pre-conception" couples.
The media has raised the alarm of an obesity epidemic in the United States. From young children to seniors, the news tells of the "crisis" of expanding waistlines.
"One less." This slogan is used to market the popular quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, to girls and women aged 9 to 26.
Type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, has long mystified scientists. Although research during the last few decades pinpointed its cause - the autoimmune attack of insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreas - its prevention has remained a mystery.
Who: A team of engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology What: A molten metal battery that can store more charge than any other battery on the market - the equivalent of 10,000 100-watt light bulbs for hours - and is even the cheapest to produce.
Much like a science fiction movie, scientists at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, have uncovered multi-cellular organisms that do not rely on mitochondria and oxygen to live and reproduce, unlike multi-cellular organisms predominantly found on Earth.
