The findings, published in Nature Medicine, suggest it may soon be possible to prevent this condition, giving people the strength to survive treatment and…
In a study using laboratory mice, published in the November 7, 2007 issue of Cell Metabolism, scientists at the School of Medicine report that fat cells…
The good news, say a team of tropical disease experts, is that tools now exist to eliminate these diseases, which are a lasting legacy of forced migration from…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory provide further evidence that a drug known as D-cycloserine could play a role in…
The scientists have shown that migrating adult sparrows can find their way to their winter nesting grounds even after being thrown off course by thousands of…
Now, scientists say that the way that thousands of tiny worms have answered that question likely reveals a lot about you and your brain, too.In the experiment…
Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan say it doesn't have to be that way. They've developed a new technology to automate “post-silicon…
Reseachers at The Ohio State University have demonstrated that Target Region Amplification Polymorphism, or TRAP, is an effective method for preserving the…
A new mathematical program developed in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Haifa will enable computers to “know” if the artwork you are…
Heart experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have evidence that at least 522 lives can be saved annually in the United States and Canada by the widespread…
A study by an international team of cardiac imaging specialists, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins, concludes that sophisticated computed tomography (CT)…
The article is to appear in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Nov. 5.“The process by which plants grow and…
Genes that play a role in illegal drug abuse are not entirely the same as those involved in dependence on legal substances like alcohol and nicotineCaffeine…
In two studies of breast-fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise intelligence an average of…
The current HAART therapy against HIV uses a combination of several different drugs, which decreases the probability of simultaneous development of resistance…
Dr Che Connon, a Research Councils UK Fellow in Stem Cells and Nanomaterials, and his team used a powerful X-ray beam to examine tiny structures within the…