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New evidence about why clear margins in breast cancer surgery are such good news
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) When a breast cancer tumor is removed with no signs of cancer left behind, it's great news for patients, and now scientists have more evidence of why.
Meta-Post: Posts on War and Peace
Cross-Check columns on war and related topics.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Secrets of an Aging Athlete
Bestselling author and fitness guru Brad Kearns joins Get-Fit Guy, Brock Armstrong, to explain how we can stay fit now, and well into the future-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Case of a Woman Who Feels Almost No Pain Leads Scientists to a New Gene Mutation
The discovery may have implications for treating acute and chronic pain-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following 'dinosaur-killer' Chicxulub impact
(University of Kansas) At a site called Tanis in North Dakota's Hell Creek Formation, a team of paleontologists whose headquarters are at the University of Kansas unearthed a motherlode of exquisitely preserved animal and fish fossils that were...
Gastrointestinal complaints in children could signal future mental health problems
(Columbia University) Columbia University researchers are among the first to link disruption of a child's gastrointestinal microbiome triggered by early-life adversity -- such as parental separation -- with activity in the regions of the brain a...
Supercomputers help supercharge protein assembly
(University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) Using proteins derived from jellyfish, scientists assembled a complex sixteen protein structure composed of two stacked octamers by supercharging alone. This research could be applied t...
Gastrointestinal complaints in children could signal future mental health problem
(Columbia University) Columbia University researchers are among the first to link disruption of a child's gastrointestinal microbiome triggered by early-life adversity -- such as parental separation -- with activity in the regions of the brain a...
Astronauts (male and female) hook up batteries during not-so-historic spacewalk
NASA astronaut Anne McClain floats between spacewalkers Christina Koch and Nick Hague in advance of today’s spacewalk. (NASA Photo)
wasn’t as historic as it was originally meant to be, but it got the job done nevertheless.
NASA astronauts Nick Hague...
Focus on immunotherapy and patient perspective at IASLC 2019 Small Cell Lung Cancer Meeting
(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) While non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the more common form of lung cancer and attracts the lion's share of the research funding, recent developments in small cell lung cancer may be...