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Life & Chemistry

New Gene Linked to Higher Breast Cancer Risk in Women

The researchers found that women with a certain hereditary deformity syndrome run a nearly twenty times higher risk of contracting breast cancer than expected.Several research teams around the world have long been searching for new hereditary breast cancer genes, but thus far few have been found….

Physics & Astronomy

New Study Reveals Diamonds’ Longevity in Expanding Universe

In a paper published online on April 25 in the journal Physical Review D, the two physicists show that matter as we know it will remain as the universe expands…

Life & Chemistry

Key Discovery Targets Cystic Fibrosis Superbug Effectively

These investigators, under the leadership of Dr. Miguel Valvano, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, have had their research published in the May issue…

Studies and Analyses

You don't have to be smart to be rich

A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those in similar circumstances but with higher…

Life & Chemistry

Deactivating Protein Shows Promise for MS Nerve Protection

Oregon Health & Science University neuroscientists are eyeing a protein as a potential therapeutic target for multiple sclerosis because de-activating it…

Business and Finance

Study Warns: Risks of Rapid Growth for Companies

Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….

Environmental Conservation

Residual Oil’s Long-Lasting Impact on Wildlife Explored

Through a series of field observations and laboratory experiments with salt marsh fiddler crabs (Uca pugnax), doctoral student Jennifer Culbertson and…

Studies and Analyses

New Evidence Unearthed on First European Voyage Up the Delaware

Jaap Jacobs, a senior fellow at Penn's McNeil Center for Early American Studies, detailed his findings in a paper, “Truffle Hunting with an Iron Hog: The First…

Environmental Conservation

Update on census of world's most endangered cat — female Amur leopard found dead

Anonymous tips led officers of two leopard anti-poaching squads to the body of the leopardess on April 20 about two miles from Bamburovo village within the…

Life & Chemistry

Mosquito Genes Reveal Climate Change Adaptation Insights

University of Oregon researchers studying mosquitoes have produced the first chromosomal map that shows regions of chromosomes that activate – and are…

Life & Chemistry

New Virus Discovered After Organ Transplant Fatalities in Australia

WHAT: The unfortunate deaths of three organ transplant recipients in Australia this past January has led to the discovery of a new virus. All three had…

Life & Chemistry

Antioxidant in Foods and Red Wine Targets Leukemia Cells

A naturally occurring compound found in many fruits and vegetables as well as red wine, selectively kills leukemia cells in culture while showing no…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Test Predicts Nitrogen Levels for Corn in Southeastern U.S.

North Carolina State researchers recently discovered a test that quickly predicts nitrogen levels in the humid soil conditions of the southeastern United…

Life & Chemistry

New Virus Linked to Transplant Deaths from One Donor

Scientists in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues in the Victorian Infectious…

Physics & Astronomy

Bucky's brother — The boron buckyball makes its debut

A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another “buckyball” consisting entirely of boron atoms.The research, which…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Analysis Sheds Light on Chemotherapy Sensitivity in Lung Cancer

This type of analysis might become useful in tailoring cancer treatments to individual patients, the researchers said.”Genetic differences may help explain why…

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