Industry Dynamics

For the First Time, Researchers Eliminated HIV From the Genomes of Living Animals

By Alice Park | July 2, 2019 Theres no question that powerful anti-HIV medications can do a fairly good job of keeping the virus under control. Used properly, these anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) can suppress HIV enough to keep it at levels so low theyre undetectable in the blood, which drastically lowers the chance of s...

Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course

July 10, 2019 The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background hum of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be made and whether there truly is a final parsec problem SIMONS FOUNDATION IMAGE: A GALAXY ROUGHLY 2.5 BILLION LIGHT-YEARS AWAY HAS A PAIR OF SUPE...

Healthy lifestyle ‘helps offset genetic risk of dementia’ amid calls for over-50s to exercise

Risk of dementia 32 per cent lower in people with a high genetic risk if they enjoy a healthy lifestyle, compared to those do not Paul Gallagher | July 14th 2019 Experts encourage people to keep physically active to help reduce their risk of getting dementia (Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) Living a healthy lifestyl...

Increasing smartphone usage temporarily diminishes the ability to interpret the deeper meaning of inf

BY E ric W. Dolan | July 21, 2019 (Photo credit: oatawa) A recently published study which included two controlled experiments has found that smartphone use can lead to a diminished ability to analyze and reason about the meaning of information. But this effect appears to be transient, according to the new research, whi...

Cigarette smoke makes MRSA superbug bacterium more drug-resistant

University of Bath researchers show that cigarette smoke can change the DNA and characteristics of pathogenic microbes. Published on Tuesday 30 July 2019 | Last updated on Tuesday 30 July 2019 Cigarette smoke accelerates the emergence of antibiotic resistant Small Colony Variants (SCVs) in the human pathogen, Staphyloc...