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NASA's TRMM Satellite sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Daniel's center

When the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Tropical Storm Daniel on July 6, 2012 at 0034 UTC, data revealed heavy rain falling…

Studies and Analyses

UC Davis Study: Extra Weight Doesn’t Raise Short-Term Death Risk

An evaluation of national data by UC Davis researchers has found that extra weight is not necessarily linked with a higher risk of death. When compared to…

Life & Chemistry

New Mouse Model Offers Insights for Liver Cancer Therapies

Insights from the mouse model were recently published in the journal Hepatology by a team of researchers led by Devanand Sarkar, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Harrison…

Life & Chemistry

Antibodies from rabbits reduce risks associated with

Recently published in the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation, a study led by Amir Toor, M.D., hematologist-oncologist in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program…

Life & Chemistry

Frankincense: Ancient Medicine Meets Modern Innovation

It was one of the gifts of the Magi – in addition to myrrh and gold they offered frankincense to the newly born baby Jesus. Since the ancient world the…

Life & Chemistry

Metal-Peptide Complexes: A New Path to Improved Medicines

Researchers at the RUB and from Berkeley have used metal complexes to modify peptide hormones. In the Journal of the American Chemical Society, they report for…

Earth Sciences

New Insights: Northern Europe’s Climate Cooling Trend Revealed

An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Sunburn: The Biology Behind UV Damage

The biological mechanism of sunburn – the reddish, painful, protective immune response from ultraviolet (UV) radiation – is a consequence of RNA damage to skin…

Life & Chemistry

Urinary tract infections steal from hosts' defense arsenals

Blocking this thievery with a drug may significantly improve patients' chances of fighting off infections, according to researchers at Washington University…

Health & Medicine

New Molecule in Immune System Offers Hope for Skin Cancer Treatment

The team, led by Thomas S. Kupper, MD, chair of the BWH Department of Dermatology, and Rahul Purwar, PhD, found that high expression of a cell-signaling…

Studies and Analyses

Overweight? There's a vaccine for that

Obesity and obesity-related disease is a growing health issue worldwide. Somatostatin, a peptide hormone, inhibits the action of growth hormone (GH) and…

Studies and Analyses

Girls' mathematics performance more likely to suffer than boys' as a result of mathematics anxiety

A new study published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions reports that a number of school-age children suffer from…

Life & Chemistry

Exome Sequencing Uncovers Genes Linked to Health Conditions

Comparing the DNA from patients at the best and worst extremes of a health condition can reveal genes for resistance and susceptibly. This approach discovered…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Exotic Ferroelectric Nanomaterials at Subatomic Levels

As scientists learn to manipulate little-understood nanoscale materials, they are laying the foundation for a future of more compact, efficient, and innovative…

Life & Chemistry

Lyl-1 Transcription Factor Key to Early T-Cell Progenitor Formation

These earliest progenitors (called early T lineage progenitor cells) are the first cells that can be identified as being on the road to becoming T-cells, said…

Health & Medicine

Study finds 'mad cow disease' in cattle can spread widely in ANS before detectable in CNS

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or “mad cow disease”) is a fatal disease in cattle that causes portions of the brain to turn sponge-like. This…

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