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Defective Signaling Pathway Reveals Insights on Cystic Fibrosis

In the study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers report that defective signaling for a protein called the peroxisome…

Studies and Analyses

Improving Secondary Stroke Prevention: Key Study Insights

For the study, scientists searched a state hospital discharge database and identified 10,399 people in South Carolina with an average age of 69 who had a…

Life & Chemistry

New Weapon Against Malaria and Bacterial Diseases Developed

The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”There is an urgent need for new drugs to combat malaria and bacterial diseases such…

Studies and Analyses

Childhood Obesity Linked to Premature Death Risk in Study

The researchers studied 4,857 children from the indigenous Indian population in the US, born between 1945 and 1984. All underwent detailed medical…

Physics & Astronomy

Graz University to Host International Space Studies Program

Approximately 120 students from all over the world will participate in the Space Studies Program. An international cadre of distinguished professors will teach…

Physics & Astronomy

'Perfect' liquid hot enough to be quark soup

Recent analyses from the [http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/] Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference “atom smasher” at the U.S. Department of…

Physics & Astronomy

'Bubbles' of broken symmetry in quark soup at RHIC

Scientists at the [http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/] Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of…

Life & Chemistry

IU Research Team Uncovers TB Mechanism and Blocker Molecule

Zhong-Yin Zhang, Ph.D., Robert A. Harris Professor and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and his colleagues revealed the…

Studies and Analyses

Stem Cells Sabotage DNA To Generate New Tissues

Human cells contain 46 strands of DNA that code for all our genes. Certain chemicals and UV light can break these strands into pieces, a process that has…

Earth Sciences

Fog has declined in past century along California's redwood coast

California's coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, potentially endangering coast redwood trees dependent on cool, humid summers,…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Transplant Mosquito Nose to Combat Malaria

The research is described in two complimentary papers, one published this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Pathway Discovered for Organ Tissue Regeneration

The findings, reported in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), come from collaborative research led by Cincinnati Children's…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Free Trade’s Impact: Diminishing Support for Africa’s Food Production

Market reforms that began in the mid-1980s and were supposed to aid economic growth have actually backfired in some of the poorest nations in the world, and…

Studies and Analyses

Brain-Controlled Cursor: A Neural Workout Breakthrough

Researchers at the University of Washington looked at signals on the brain's surface while using imagined movements to control a cursor. The results, published…

Life & Chemistry

OHSU Researchers Uncover Cellular Mechanism for Disease Defense

“Cells communicate with each other by releasing chemical signals, like hormones,” explained Conn. “These chemical signals are detected and received by…

Studies and Analyses

Autism's earliest symptoms not evident in children under 6 months

A study of the development of autism in infants, comparing the behavior of the siblings of children diagnosed with autism to that of babies developing…

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