Gastric (stomach) cancer remains one of the most common and deadly cancers in East Asia, including Korea. Yet despite its high prevalence, it has received far less molecular attention than colorectal cancer, which is more…
Chicken Flu Evolution Yields Insight into Origins of…
An international research team has shown how changes in a flu virus that has plagued Chinese poultry farms for decades helped create the novel avian H7N9 influenza, a virus that has sickened more than 375 people…
The sun exploring as fire from an ice…
This is one of the amazing image of the sun exploring the colored and sparkling stuff that one has ever watched. The reddish stuff may look familiar. That’s material in the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, as…
Researchers: IMF Policies Hindered Ebola Response
Professors from three leading British universities say International Monetary Fund policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending contributed to the Ebola crisis by hampering health care in the three worst-hit West African countries. Conditions…
Using Light to Produce Natural Sleep Patterns
[caption id="attachment_1908" align="alignright" width="300"] Confocal images show expression of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine (red), and the light sensitive ion channel, channelrhodopsin (Chr2) (green). The merged images (far right) show neurons expressing both acetylcholine and ChR2 (yellow).…