Lassa Fever: Nigeria’s death toll rises to 101
By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The death toll from the Lassa fever disease ravaging the country since the beginning of the year, has risen to 101,...
Organoids created from patients’ bladder cancers could guide treatment
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the characteristics of actual tumors....
The Next Generation of Antibiotics Could Come from the Dirt
Researchers are scouring the soil looking for bacteria that can be used to create new antibiotics. It’s part of a move away from lab-grown...
Three-month-old infants can learn abstract relations before language comprehension
Three-month-old babies cannot understand words and are just learning to roll over, yet they are already capable of learning abstract relations. In a new...
How to reprogram memory cells in the brain
Long-term memory of specific places is stored in the brain in so-called place cells. A team of neuroscientists headed by Dr Andrea Burgalossi of...
