One of the worst things you can hear from you doctor is that you, or a loved one, has “triple negative” breast cancer. It stubbornly refuses to respond to the best treatments available, so doctors have to resort to chemotherapy. It strikes 16 per cent of breast cancer patients, most of them younger than 40. But we may finally have figured out how to beat it.
It was a major breakthrough in 1995: After 13 months, scientists finally sequenced the entire genome of a bacteria.
Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It’s a big shift in social behaviour theory, since scientists previously thought the environment determined social behaviour.
