Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters
Concerns over the privacy of patients could be hampering efforts to spot disease clusters and monitor the health effects of environmental pollution, according to researchers in the latest edition of the . .. But researchers say that these measures often make it impossible for them to carry out accurate geogra...UCSD team unmasks family of immune system invaders
Like a family of petty criminals gone wrong, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were surprised to find that bacterial pathogens found in a number of troublesome diseases are actually related. Not only that, their wrong-doing is carried out by disguising themselves, then hijacking their hosts. . Jack E. Dixon, Ph.D., Dean for Scientific Affairs and Professor of Pharmaco...Napoleon's mysterious death unmasked, UT Southwestern researcher says
A new investigation into Napoleon Bonaparte's cause of death might finally put to rest nearly 200 years of lingering mysteries about the illness that killed the French emperor during his island exile, a UT Southwestern Medical Center scientist reports. . American, Swiss and Canadian researchers applied modern pathological and tumor-staging methods to historical accounts and found that Napoleon d...