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New Therapy Slows Tumor Growth in Advanced Breast Cancer

A novel therapy designed to attack tumors in patients with a genetic mutation in either BRCA1 or BRCA2, slowed tumor growth in 85 percent of advanced breast…

Studies and Analyses

Cycling Carbon: New Insights on Earth’s Climate Ecosystems

Two recent international studies are poised to change the way scientists view the crucial relationship between Earth's climate and the carbon cycle. These…

Health & Medicine

New Blood Test Detects Rare Lung Disease in Women

These findings are being published in the July 6, 2010, edition of the journal Chest.LAM is a rare but serious lung disease that affects women, causing…

Life & Chemistry

TGen Discovers Protein Inhibitor to Boost Ovarian Cancer Chemotherapy

Investigators at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have discovered a way that may help ovarian cancer patients who no longer respond to…

Life & Chemistry

Neural Stem Cells Target Glioblastoma: New Research Insights

Dr. Sridhar Reddy Chirasani, Professor Helmut Kettenmann and Dr. Rainer Glass (all MDC) and Dr. Michael Synowitz (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) have…

Studies and Analyses

Music Aids Stroke Rehabilitation: New Insights and Benefits

More than 20 million people suffer strokes each year. Many patients acquire brain injuries that affect their movement and language abilities, which results in…

Studies and Analyses

Depression Linked to Nearly Double Dementia Risk, Study Finds

For the study, researchers examined research data on 949 people with an average age of 79 from the Framingham Heart Study. At the start of the study,…

Life & Chemistry

Flowering and Freezing Tolerance Linked in Wheat

The new findings, published June 22 in the Online First issue of the journal Plant Physiology, shed light on the connection between flowering and freezing…

Studies and Analyses

Scientists Develop New Approach to Predicting Losses from Disasters

According to lead researcher Lianfa Li of LREIS, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “This improved…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Role of DNA Repair Protein Linked to Cancer Uncovered

Assistant Professor of Biology Mitch McVey and his research team report that DNA polymerase theta, or PolQ, promotes an inaccurate repair process, which can…

Environmental Conservation

How Land Plants Capture 15% of Atmospheric Carbon Annually

The researchers evaluated the result against spatially explicit process models including the leading model LPJmL from PIK. Tropical ecosystems such as rain…

Studies and Analyses

Difficult Childhoods Linked to Teenage Drinking: New Study Insights

Dr. Caroline Kabiru and a team of researcher from the African Population and Health Research Center , Nairobi, Kenya conducted the study. They noted, “Overall,…

Life & Chemistry

Digital Embryo Takes Flight: Breakthrough at EMBL Heidelberg

The scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, who 'fathered' the Digital Embryo have now given it wings, creating…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Thermal-powered, insect-like robot crawls into microrobot contenders' ring

The past few years have given rise to a growing number of microrobots, miniaturized mobile machines designed to perform specific tasks. And though spectators…

Studies and Analyses

Women Live Longer But Face Greater Health Challenges

“We focused on a socioeconomic position factor such as educational level and health factors such as limitations to daily activity. By studying this…

Environmental Conservation

Oil Spills Linked to Rising Arsenic Levels in Ocean Research

Arsenic is a poisonous chemical element found in minerals and it is present in oil. High levels of arsenic in seawater can enable the toxin to enter the food…

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