Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Baylor College of Medicine, found that HCV infection…
In a commentary in the May 9, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists at the National Institutes of Health discuss why…
The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of which…
The study, which also demonstrated the molecular mechanism that creates this novel protein, will be published online in Human Mutation, the official journal of…
Recent test fishing of a halibut excluder device on trawl nets fishing for Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska points to a significant reduction of halibut…
Lilliard Richardson, associate professor in MU's Truman School of Public Affairs, and David J. Houston, associate professor at the University of Tennessee,…
An exploding star first observed last September is the largest and most luminous supernova ever seen, according to University of California, Berkeley,…
The technology is based on a new material for the positive electrode that is comprised of a unique nano-crystalline, layered-composite structure.Argonne’s…
A University of Florida scientist and other researchers have found that plants in Hawaii have the ability to acclimate to big changes in rainfall in at least…
A review of young leukemia patients over the past decade has shown that the absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), a measure of normal immune cells found on every…
Their work appears online May 6 in advance of publication in the journal Nature Methods.Fruit flies are well suited for chromosome studies because some of…
> Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found an absolute biochemical distinction between the sporadic and hereditary variants…
“This was a truly monstrous explosion, a hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova,” said Nathan Smith of the University of California at Berkeley,…
Stem rust of wheat was responsible for massive epidemics on wheat during the early 20th Century in North America. In the mid-1950s, wheat breeders developed…
A retrospective study of 24,883 premature babies with respiratory distress syndrome treated in 191 U.S. hospitals from January 2003 to June 2006 showed…
Huntington's disease is one of a number of degenerative diseases marked by clumps of malformed protein in brain cells. Symptoms include abnormal movements,…