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Bone Health Risk: Women Under 30 and the Impact of Diet

Women who follow strict exercise and diet regimens may harm their body’s ability to form new bone, which can lead to osteoporosis later in life. Researchers…

Environmental Conservation

Marine Sediment Fuel Cells: Boosting Energy with Nutrients

To produce energy, microbial fuel cells need organic material for the microbes to consume. However, deep sea sediments can be surprisingly devoid of organic…

Physics & Astronomy

How Atomic Collisions Keep Our Digital World in Sync

Very precise time keeps the Internet and e-mail functioning, ensures television broadcasts arrive at our TVs and is integral to a network of global navigation…

Health & Medicine

Circulating Tumor Cells Signal Prostate Cancer Chemotherapy Success

The team of scientists – including first author Jose Moreno, M.D., clinical associate professor of urology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson…

Earth Sciences

Geoengineering — A quick fix with big risks

The experiments, described in the June 4 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, look at what might happen if we attempt…

Health & Medicine

Trastuzumab Benefits: Lowering HER2+ Breast Cancer Risks

These studies, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), were undertaken to test whether trastuzumab adds to the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy…

Life & Chemistry

HIV’s Sneaky Escape: New Insights from Plos Biology

Their findings, published in the June issue of Plos Biology, counter the prevailing belief that HIV and other retroviruses can only leave and enter cells by…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells Found in Colorectal Tumors: Key Research Insights

These are the latest class of cancer stem cells tracked down by a large, interdisciplinary group of researchers led by Michael Clarke, MD. The discovery is…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford Researchers Track Stem Cells in Rat Brain Using Iron Particles

The research group placed miniscule particles of iron inside stem cells to act as cellular beacons detected by magnetic resonance imaging. With the ability to…

Environmental Conservation

Land Conversion and Climate Impact on Land Birds

These projections are based on the assumption that birds will not dramatically shift their ranges in response to a changing climate, a process that would…

Studies and Analyses

Long-Term Success of New Lymphoma Drug: Study Results

Eight years after being treated with a new drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 86 percent of patients were still alive and half had not had a relapse of their…

Earth Sciences

New Tool Enhances Monitoring of Nuclear Tests and Earthquakes

New tool for monitoring nuclear tests: The International Monitoring System (IMS) is a world-wide network of seismometers, hydrophones, infrasound arrays, and…

Studies and Analyses

Quality of Life Post-Epilepsy Surgery: Seizures vs. Memory

The study, published in the June 5, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, shows that quality of life improves…

Life & Chemistry

Duetting Birds: A New Threat to Magpie-Lark Territory Defense

“When partners duet, they signal to other magpie-larks that they are working as a team to defend their territory,” said Dr. Michelle Hall of the Max Planck…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change and Deforestation Threaten Global Bird Diversity

Their study, the first global assessment of how climate change and habitat destruction may interact to impact the distribution of a large group of vertebrates…

Studies and Analyses

Hot Flashes: A Positive Sign for Women With Breast Cancer

The study results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago today. “Hot flashes are a very common and…

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