The researchers say the finding offers the strongest evidence yet that treatments designed to increase levels of lubricin in humans may help stall the…
A powerful two-gene test distinguishes between a pair of nearly identical gastrointestinal cancers that require radically different courses of treatment,…
The H5N1 avian flu virus is quite different from the seasonal H1N1 and H3N2 flu viruses most humans have been exposed to, which is why many scientists believe…
In a new study published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Tessa Burch-Smith, Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, and colleagues show how one…
A new study, published in the February 13, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, shows that unfortunately…
In a new large, prospective study, researchers found that midday napping (siestas) reduced coronary mortality by about one third among men and women. The study…
The MAPK p38-alpha is a signaling protein that plays a critical role in coordinating cellular responses to stress, including oxidative stress that is…
A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has…
Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it. That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich…
In addition to shedding light on the biology of cleft palate, the research raises hopes that it may one day be possible to prevent many types of human birth…
German researchers have found additional evidence that the stress hormone cortisol can have positive effects in certain situations. Although chronic stress,…
Research studies demonstrating the viability of an approach to routinely detect the presence of fetal DNA in a mother's blood to accurately diagnose or rule…
New research led by Professor Ben Fletcher and Dr Karen Pine at the University’s School of Psychology, has revealed that dieting leads women into a vicious…
China is in the midst of a mammoth programme of development of coal-fired power stations. Between 2000 and 2004, China built new coal-fired power stations…
A new study published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, measured the level of cotinine in participants’ blood, rather than relying…
Fortunately even more jobs are created. – 2.65m jobs lost each year, but 2.76m jobs created. – Small firms more important than many previously claimed —…
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