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Life & Chemistry

Microbial Partnerships Produce Climate-Influencing Gas

“This gas has many different effects”, says Dr Andrew Curson from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. “It triggers clouds to form over the oceans –…

Studies and Analyses

New Blood Pressure Medication Shows Fewer Side Effects

The study found a new drug telmisartan is as effective as the popular drug ramipril in reducing cardiovascular death in high risk patients and it has fewer…

Life & Chemistry

Replacing MicroRNAs: A New Approach to Treating Tumors

Carcinomas are cancers that develop from epithelial tissue, which lines internal and external body surfaces. When normal cells are transformed into cancer…

Studies and Analyses

US Physicians Support National Health Insurance, Study Finds

The largest survey ever of American physicians’ opinions on health-care financing has found that 59 percent of doctors support government legislation to…

Physics & Astronomy

Stanford researchers develop tool that 'sees' internal body details 1,000 times smaller

This technique, called Raman spectroscopy, expands the available toolbox for the field of molecular imaging, said team leader Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD,…

Health & Medicine

New Cancer-Fighting Method: Silver Shield Protects Cells

Fasting for two days protects healthy cells against chemotherapy, according to a study appearing online the week of Mar. 31 in PNAS Early Edition.Mice given a…

Physics & Astronomy

Discovering Cellulose: Key to Life’s Paper Trail on Mars

The cover story for the April issue of the journal Astrobiology, the new research also pushes back the earliest direct evidence of biological material on Earth…

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Desktop “Plug-and-Produce” Robot Enhances Classroom Learning

Industrially applicable robot technologies have so far been available only to a small extent for teaching and educational purposes. Instead, toy-like robots…

Life & Chemistry

Ebola Vaccine Development: Insights from Dr. Anthony Sanchez

Dr Anthony Sanchez, from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia is presenting an overview of Ebola vaccine development today (Monday…

Life & Chemistry

Diabetes Genes Linked to Prostate Cancer in New Study

The new findings bring the total number of genes or genomic regions implicated in diabetes to 16, said Laura Scott, assistant research scientist in the…

Studies and Analyses

Team explains 'the wallpaper problem'

Frustrated by tape that won't peel off the roll in a straight line? Angry at wallpaper that refuses to tear neatly off the wall?A new study reveals why these…

Studies and Analyses

Synthetic Estrogens’ Impact on Reproductive Health Revealed

Preliminary results of the study will be presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held March 26-29 in San…

Life & Chemistry

CSHL Scientists Uncover Rare Gene Mutations Linked to Schizophrenia

Using an important new method that can be applied in the study of other psychiatric illnesses, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells From Hair Follicles Boost New Blood Vessel Growth

“Engineering blood vessels for bypass surgery, promoting the formation of new blood vessels or regenerating new skin tissue using stem cells obtained from the…

Life & Chemistry

New Target for Multiple Sclerosis Therapy: Collagenase-2 Insights

Collagenase-2 is a member of a protein family called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs, collagenase-2 is MMP8), a large group of enzymes that break down collagen…

Life & Chemistry

Unique Human Hearing: Insights from Single Neuron Reactions

However, scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and elsewhere have now for the first time demonstrated how the reactions of single neurons give…

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