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Cutting Work Hours: Boosting Well-Being and Job Opportunities

Lonnie Golden, associate professor of economics at Penn State's Abington Campus in greater Philadelphia, said empowering the 7 percent of workers who claimed…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Links to Schizophrenia Discovered by Feinstein Researchers

Working in conjunction with researchers at the Harvard Medical School Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics in Boston, MA, the Zucker Hillside team…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Mutation Linked to X-Linked Mental Retardation

Researchers have identified a novel gene mutation that causes X-linked mental retardation for which there was no previously known molecular diagnosis,…

Studies and Analyses

Colon Cancer Survival Tied to Lymph Nodes Examined

The study suggests that removal of the nodes takes away a reservoir for potentially lethal cancer, and that knowing how far a cancer has spread leads to…

Life & Chemistry

Protein TG2 Shields Pancreatic Cancer Cells from Destruction

The protein tissue transglutaminase, known by the abbreviation TG2, previously has been found by researchers at M. D. Anderson and elsewhere to be…

Life & Chemistry

Termites Discover Tasty Choices in Innovative Feeding Study

By offering them a choice between normal wooden blocks and specially designed blocks made of wood and other materials, the researchers found that the termites…

Life & Chemistry

CSHL Study Identifies Genetic Differences in Autism Cases

New research, led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists Jonathan Sebat, Lakshmi Muthuswamy and Michael Wigler, has found a distinction between…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Discovery May Enhance Pregnancy Success, Researchers Find

Peter Sutovsky, assistant professor of animal sciences in the University of Missouri-Columbia's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and…

Studies and Analyses

Learning Complex Tasks: Watch or Practice for Success?

What is the very best way to learn a complex task? Is it practice, practice, practice, or is watching and thinking enough to let you imitate a physical…

Health & Medicine

Biosand Filter: Improving Water Safety in Dominican Republic

“This technology has the potential to bring safe drinking water to many people in developing countries around the world who don’t have access to it now,” said…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Uncover Key Molecule in Stem Cell Signaling Pathway

A newly discovered small molecule called IQ-1 plays a key role in preventing embryonic stem cells from differentiating into one or more specific cell types,…

Life & Chemistry

Notorious Cancer Gene Disrupts Messenger RNA Production

The insight emerged from a long-running study of a protein called PMR1, the key player in an unusual mechanism that cells use to quickly stop production of…

Studies and Analyses

Smoking’s Impact on Hidden Skin Aging: New Insights Revealed

In classic movies, cigarette smoking was used as shorthand to convey sultriness and beauty. In the real world, the connection between smoking and one’s…

Earth Sciences

Future Sentinel-1 Images: IceSAR Campaign Insights

Carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the images that Sentinel-1 will provide are particularly well suited for applications based on mapping sea ice….

Business and Finance

Exploring Project Management Effectiveness Across Organizations

In recent years researchers have become increasingly interested in factors that may have an impact on project management effectiveness and the success of…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on p53: The Genomic Guardian Against Cancer

The p53 transcription factor is found in every cell of the body, where it helps to prevent cancer by activating and deactivating the right genes. When the cell…

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