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What's the Future of Cancer Diagnosis? [Ask A Biogeek]io9 - Oct 9, 2008 I talked about the importance of early cancer diagnosis in a previous post, and reader Ian wrote back to ask for more detail. Early detection can be life-saving, but accuracy in these tests is also a serious problem - … Also tagged: cancer, medicine, science, feature, top, mri, ask a biogeek |
io9 - Oct 8, 2008
Some kinds of plants evolve so quickly into new species that they surprised scientists compiling a genetic family tree showing how long each species on Earth has existed. Researchers at Yale working on the Tree of Life …
Also tagged: science, genetics, evolution, yale, plants, tree of life, mad science, triffids, megamice
io9 - Oct 3, 2008
Last night, the Annals of Improbable Research held its 18th annual Ig Nobel Prizes. The prizes are awarded for scientific and social achievements "that first make people laugh, then make people think." And this year’s …
Also tagged: medicine, physics, chemistry, archeology, cognitive science, improbable research, ig nobel prizes
io9 - Sep 18, 2008
If you want to live forever, one of the main things stopping you is cancer. Many of the mechanisms that prevent cells from aging also make those cells prone to carcinogenic mutations. But now a research team at the …
Also tagged: cancer, science, longevity, telomerase, chinchillas
io9 - Sep 16, 2008
The ability to suppress hunger is a holy grail for many obesity researchers — as well as people who want to lose large amounts of weight. And now it looks as if a group of scientists at Johns Hopkins have figured out a …
Also tagged: obesity, science, hunger, ghrelin, mad medicine
io9 - Sep 15, 2008
A couple of Harvard mathematicians have created models that suggest there could have been a strange form of natural selection at work on the chemicals swirling in Earth's primordial soup where live arose. They call …
io9 - Sep 11, 2008
Although sexual cannibalism is discouraged among humans, if not outright illegal, it's not uncommon in the spider world, as well as among mantises. Female spiders are known to eat male spiders both before and after …
Also tagged: science, sex, spiders, sexual cannibalism
io9 - Aug 29, 2008
Janni Pedersen is one of the only linguists in the world whose research focuses on a non-human language. The Iowa State University researcher at the Great Ape Trust in Iowa, US, studies the language capabilities of …
Also tagged: linguistics, zoology, animal language
io9 - Aug 27, 2008
As humans age, their hearing naturally grows less acute because they begin to lose tiny sensory hairs (pictured, magnified) in their inner ears that convert sound waves into neurological signals. But now scientists …
Also tagged: science, hearing, ears, mad science, cochlear hair
io9 - Aug 25, 2008
Every time your cells divide, the "telomeres," or caps on the ends of your chromosomes, get a little shorter. Elderly creatures begin to suffer diseases of old age partly because their telomeres have become so short …
Also tagged: science, longevity, proteomics, mad proteomics