“This research provides insight into the mechanisms of early cancer spread and may shed light into unexplained phenomena—among them, why as many as five percent of cancer patients worldwide have cancer metastases but no original tumor"
While there are many advantages to automating certain workflows in the lab, a lot of thought must be put into when and where automation can be best used
In the study, human subjects viewed a series of quickly flashed images, and reported which ones they saw and which they could not see, while their brain activity was monitored using magnetoencephalography
This suggests that the evolutionary pressure to conserve these resistance genes has existed for millions of years—not just since antibiotics were first used to treat disease