Answering one of the oldest questions in human physiology, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered why the body's immune system -…
This is the first time scientists have been able to probe the “dark” energy state — so called because it cannot be detected by fluorescence techniques used to…
Diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage kidney disease worldwide, an illness that requires either kidney dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant for…
The 2004 earthquake is the focus of the January special issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), in which scientists present…
Found within the Small Magellanic Cloud – a galactic neighbor of the Milky Way – the large region of ionized hydrogen gas is designated “LHa115-N19,” and…
The reason apparently is supersonic winds, perhaps as strong as 9,000 miles an hour, that constantly churn the planets' atmospheres and keep temperatures on…
The study of 987 men and women with stable coronary heart disease revealed that the higher a patient's level of NT-proBNP, the greater the chance the patient…
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) recently made significant strides toward settling a decades-old debate centering on the role played…
Since catching treatment failure early is key to preventing further resistance, this research, published in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases…
This accomplishment is expected to make it possible to produce enough of the promising drugs for use in clinical trials.In a study featured on the cover of the…
José Montoya, MD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases), and postdoctoral scholar Andreas Kogelnik, MD, PhD, have used the drug valganciclovir…
Frederic Rasio, a theoretical astrophysicist and professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, presented the…
A collaborative team led by Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at UC Santa Barbara (Burnham) has developed…
Quasars were discovered 40 years ago, when astronomers noticed that theseobjects – thought at the time to be stars – were emitting far more radio waves than…
Unexplained chest pain after a heart attack might be more dangerous than many physicians originally think.In a case study to be published in the January issue…
The study, involving human pancreatic tumor cells implanted in mice, opens a new avenue for real-time imaging of a patient’s response to cancer therapies. It…
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