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The Evidence Argument   Re: about the use of evidence in medicine: “Evidence-based” is a simplistic and misleading buzzword. A single well-documented case is valid evidence, but the self-proclaimed “evidence-based” promoters and practitioners attack it as “anecdotal.”

What substance is supposed to have no effect but can make people feel better, has no chance for a big monetary payoff but is worth billions, and is used in virtually every rigorous clinical trial but has no single, universal formulation? 

Cells on standby are surprisingly busy.

A newly minted PhD finds a 150-billion-base-pair-long DNA molecule in a plant.

A new molecular predictor of cancer-spread adds to a growing list of biomarkers that could improve treatment

Mice lacking normal gut bacteria show differences in brain development and behavior

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in medicine and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

A round up of recent discoveries in behavior research

A gaggle of British primary school children has published important findings on bee behavior

Horizontal gene transfer accounts for the majority of prokaryotic protein evolution

Researchers find that the paternal alleles of an unusual imprinted gene regulate social behavior, while the maternal alleles affect fetal growth

Researchers identify a metabolic pathway that appears to maintain its own 24-hour cycle, challenging the traditional view of a purely transcription-driven biological clock