Racial Discrimination Takes The Nobility Out Of Doctoring

Previous doubts about racial inequalities, even at the cost of lives, are turning out to be the ugly truth. A recent study finds that blacks are far less likely than whites to get specialized procedures, like angioplasty, after a heart attack, which leave them more vulnerable to future fatal att...

Individuals Distraction can Be Measured by a Computer Based Test

...ir response times increase and they tend to make more mistakes; showing that they have been distracted. So the test is objective and there's no way of doctoring the results," she added. Sixty-one subjects took a short computerised test during which letters, acting as distractions, flashed up on screen....

Doctors Protest Against Allowing Nurses To Perform Minor Surgeries

... 'I would not have anyone who is not medically qualified doing any sort of medical procedure on any member of my family. I want the doctors to do the doctoring and the nurses to do the nursing. Old-fashioned I may be, but would you let an airhostess fly the plane with your family in it? ,' wrote another docto...

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Photosynthesizing bacteria with a day-night cycle contain rare chromosome

...e sun's energy to make sugar via photosynthesis like plants do. And like bacteria, Cyanothece 51142 has other key life-sustaining functions, such as doctoring atmospheric nitrogen so other species can use it. This so-called nitrogen fixation is performed by a handful of bacterial species in water and soil. ...

Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex

...of the human genome is made up of bits of mobile DNA, which can travel inside the body and insert genes into the chromosomes of target cells. This DNA doctoring not only shapes species over time, it also spreads antibiotic resistance and is used by bacteria that spread Lyme disease and by viruses linked to cer...

Brown-Harvard team solves mobile DNA's surgical sleight-of-hand

... Nature, a Brown University and Harvard Medical School team reveals the crystal structure of λ-integrase (λ-INT), the protein responsible for this DNA doctoring in the lambda virus, which infects and lives off Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. The findings are important because lambda is a model virus us...