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Health & Medicine

First Targeted Therapy Achieves Remission in Metastatic Melanoma

The report, published in the April 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, describes the case of a 79-year-old woman with melanoma tumors in several…

Life & Chemistry

Birds Signal Sentry Duty to Aid Feeding Comrades

Researchers from the University of Bristol, led by BBSRC David Phillips Fellow Dr Andy Radford, have demonstrated that by giving the distinctive ‘watchman’s…

Medical Engineering

Advanced MRI Studies Provide New Insight on Early Parkinson's Disease

Two studies from the University at Buffalo being presented at the 2008 American Academy of Neurology meeting in Chicago shed new light on very early…

Life & Chemistry

Mature B Cells Reprogrammed to Stem-Cell-Like State

Fully mature, differentiated B cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the use of an egg according to a study published in the…

Earth Sciences

Lakes of Meltwater Can Crack Greenland’s Ice and Contribute to Faster Ice Sheet Flow

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW) have for the first time documented the sudden and…

Earth Sciences

Greenland Ice Sheet: Insights on Surface Meltwater Trends

The report also shows that surface meltwater is reaching bedrock farther inland under the Greenland Ice Sheet, something scientists had speculated was…

Environmental Conservation

Captive Tigers’ Purebred Ancestry Boosts Conservation Value

Using a new method for assessing the genetic ancestry of tigers, researchers discovered that many apparently “generic” tigers actually represent purebred…

Earth Sciences

Historic Soviet nuclear test site offers insights for today's nuclear monitoring

From 1949 to 1989, Semipalatinsk was scrutinized furtively by U2 spy planes, satellites and seismologists hoping to learn more about the Soviet Union’s weapons…

Earth Sciences

Tiny Tremors Track Extreme Storms in a Warming Climate

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other prominent researchers have predicted that stronger and more frequent storms may occur as a result of…

Health & Medicine

Chronic Migraine Risk Linked to Painkiller Overuse Study

For the study, 24,000 people with headaches in the United States were surveyed about the types of medications they use to treat their headaches. From this…

Environmental Conservation

'Extinct' elephant may have been found again — on a different island

The origins of the pygmy elephants, found only on the northeast tip of the island in part of the Heart of Borneo, have long been shrouded in mystery. Their…

Medical Engineering

UT Southwestern Tests New DUET Electric-Acoustic Hearing Device

The cross-breed device, called the DUET Electric-Acoustic System, or EAS, is already used in Europe, but not yet approved for use in the U.S. It targets a…

Studies and Analyses

Sudden Oak Death Pathogen Evolution: New Insights Unveiled

“In this paper, we actually reconstruct the Sudden Oak Death epidemic,” said Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley associate extension specialist and adjunct…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights Into Seasonal Flu Virus Evolution

The new findings should help public health officials more quickly and accurately determine which strains to include in the annual flu vaccine. The study,…

Environmental Conservation

New Model Predicts Coral Thriving Locations Amid Climate Change

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth have developed a new scientific model that…

Information Technology

European Researchers Explore New Approaches in Robotics AI

But there is another radically different approach available that European researchers have applied to the study of robotics and AI. The MACS project does not…

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