9+ hour, 51+ min ago   (55+ words) Chemists in Pakistan have shown that the secret to extracting powerful antioxidant compounds from the leaves of the lemon-scented eucalyptus tree lies in matching the polarity of the solvent to the chemistry of the target molecules. In a study published…...

14+ hour, 11+ min ago   (689+ words) For decades, biologists have treated protein abundance as the closest available proxy for what a cell is actually doing. Measure how much of each protein a cell produces, the reasoning went, and you have a reasonable snapshot of its functional…...

21+ hour, 42+ min ago   (577+ words) For decades, oncologists have calculated chemotherapy doses using a deceptively simple formula: body surface area, derived from a patient’s height and weight. Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all approach conceals profound differences in how individual patients…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (793+ words) Stick and leaf insects are among the most accomplished masters of disguise in the animal kingdom, but their most remarkable imitation may be the one nobody watches happen. The eggs of many phasmid species look uncannily like plant seeds, complete…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (855+ words) Hospitalized cancer patients without distant metastases are waiting longer than their metastatic counterparts for palliative care consultations, according to a large retrospective study from the Medical University of Vienna, and the delay may be costing them time, comfort, and hospital…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (847+ words) For decades, neurointensivists have peered at the jagged pulse traces scrolling across bedside monitors, trying to read in the shape of an intracranial pressure waveform a hidden message about how much room the injured brain has left....

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (864+ words) Mohs micrographic surgery has long been regarded as the gold standard for treating many nonmelanoma skin cancers, offering the highest cure rates while preserving the maximum amount of healthy tissue....

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (79+ words) Rehabilitation after shoulder surgery may be about to get a cognitive upgrade. A randomized controlled trial conducted at the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University in China has found that asking patients to perform mental arithmetic while doing their…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (670+ words) groundnut yield loss Bioengineer.org...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (98+ words) The rise of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, has transformed the treatment of severe aortic stenosis, offering a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for patients who were once considered inoperable or too frail to survive a sternotomy. Each…...