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Blood ties — younger generation more willing to donate blood

'Like other countries, Canada's population is aging, and the implications of this demographic change need to be better understood from the perspective of blood…

Life & Chemistry

Micropatterned Surfaces Guide Cell Orientation in Biomedicine

The study is reported in Issue 18, Volume 54 (September 2009) of the Chinese Science Bulletin as one of the papers in a special issue about Biomedical…

Health & Medicine

SCID kids leading healthy, normal lives 25 years after 'Bubble Boy'

Since David's death however, researchers have refined treatment options for children with SCID, and today, as scientists at Duke University Medical Center…

Studies and Analyses

Cities Adapting: Tackling Growth and Global Warming Together

A three-year project led by Newcastle University for the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has outlined how our major cities must respond if they are…

Earth Sciences

New Flying Reptile Discovered by Global Research Team

An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying…

Physics & Astronomy

Sky Merger Unveils Cosmic Gas Effects on Galaxies

Not surprisingly, interacting galaxies have a dramatic effect on each other. Studies have revealed that as galaxies approach one another massive amounts of gas…

Life & Chemistry

Rare Crow Rediscovered: A Hope for Endangered Species

Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part…

Studies and Analyses

Mastectomy vs. Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Closer Look

There is concern that mastectomy is over-utilized in the United States, which raises questions about the role of surgeons and patient preference in treatment…

Life & Chemistry

Small … smaller … smallest? ASU researchers create molecular diode

In the electronics world, diodes are a versatile and ubiquitous component. Appearing in many shapes and sizes, they are used in an endless array of devices and…

Studies and Analyses

Intensive Care Procedure Boosts Survival in Swine Flu Cases

The latest report, released today in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed the extent to which doctors in Australia and New Zealand used…

Life & Chemistry

Tumor Suppressor Gene Loss Turns Benign Nerve Tumors Cancerous

The work, a collaboration between the Institute for Molecular Medicine, the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and the cancer center's Sarcoma…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford researchers' magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than current methods

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an…

Life & Chemistry

UF researchers find triggers in cells' transition from colitis to cancer

Scientists observed that cancer stem cells taken from the gastrointestinal system in patients with a chronic digestive disease called ulcerative colitis will…

Life & Chemistry

Singapore Scientists Unlock Key to p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene

Scientists at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have determined how the master gene regulator p53 could switch a gene in a cell “on” or “off” by…

Life & Chemistry

No such thing as 'junk RNA'

The findings, published last week in the online version of the Journal of Virology, represent the first examination of very small RNA products termed unusually…

Studies and Analyses

First-of-Kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used to Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts' Performance

Court cases across America often feature expert testimony that offers conflicting conclusions. When this happens in cases involving psychiatric expertise, does…

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