Researchers are testing a new method which could allow doctors to diagnose patients, in order to see which of them need antibiotic treatment before pneumonia shows up. This makes use of gene chips, which are also known as microrays - a technology which has been used for more than a decade in labs to […]

Scientists have discovered fossilised human faeces, some 14.000 years old, in a cave known as the Paisley Cave, about 350 kilometers southeast of Eugene, Oregon. The DNA that was extracted provides biological verification that there were people in North America 14.000 years ago. The samples contain sinew and plant fibre threads, hide, basketry, cords, rope, […]