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Life & Chemistry

MIT Chemist Explores Electron Behavior and Its Implications

Troy Van Voorhis likes to watch how things work. This natural curiosity led to his current research on the behavior of electrons and how they function in…

Life & Chemistry

NYU and Scripps Discover Key Enzyme for Diabetes Treatment

The enzyme GAPDH was previously unknown to be a factor in the development of diabetes in humans. It has also been discovered that the inhibition of GAPDH…

Health & Medicine

Seniors Face Higher Risks in Large-Scale Weight-Loss Surgery

The study showed that older patients experienced less weight loss and far more complications than younger patients, indicating that the risks often outweigh…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Quest for Better Breast Cancer Drugs Begins

The five-year project, which involves the University of Edinburgh and the Riken Genomic Research Centre in Japan, will initially look at why particular…

Health & Medicine

Cancer Surgery Viable for Octogenarians, Mayo Clinic Finds

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers have found that a radical prostatectomy can be a viable option for select octogenarian patients. The findings, which run…

Life & Chemistry

Giant Danio Fish Grows Uniquely: Insights from New Study

The study in the November issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, finds that the giant danio, unlike…

Life & Chemistry

Bio-Inspired Assembly of Nanoparticles: New Method Revealed

Chemists at Rice University have discovered how to assemble gold and silver nanoparticle building blocks into larger structures based on a novel method that…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Amazonian Biodiversity Decline: New Insights on Fragmentation

Their findings, to be published next week (27 November – 1 December) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, summarizes key…

Studies and Analyses

Ecstasy’s Impact: Brain Changes in First-Time Users

“We found a decrease in blood circulation in some areas of the brain in young adults who just started to use ecstasy,” said Maartje de Win, M.D., radiology…

Health & Medicine

New Treatment Breakthrough for Spinal Cord Injury Pain

“The findings are promising as spinal cord injury pain is a condition which generally responds poorly to currently available treatments,” said study author…

Studies and Analyses

Parkinson’s Impact on Driving: Study Reveals Key Findings

The study involved an on-road driving test of 71 people with mild to moderate Parkinson disease who were current drivers and 147 people of similar age with no…

Life & Chemistry

FDA-Approved Antibiotic Developed Using Cloning Techniques

The rapid rise of antibiotic resistance poses a serious threat to human health, and demands new treatments effective against resistant pathogens. Fosfomycin is…

Life & Chemistry

Humpback Whales Share Brain Cells With Humans, Study Finds

A new study published online November 27, 2006 in The Anatomical Record, the official journal of the American Association of Anatomists,compared a humpback…

Life & Chemistry

Chemotherapy’s Temporary Impact on Brain Structures

Published in the January 1, 2007 issue of CANCER (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society,…

Earth Sciences

Cutting-Edge Ocean Drilling Advances Marine Research

“Cold-Water Coral Mounds Revealed” is authored by members of the IODP Expedition 307 Porcupine Basin Carbonate Mounds science party. A second article,…

Earth Sciences

Scientists 'see' new ocean floor just before and after it is created

Ocean-bottom seismometers, which had been deployed by researchers from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University, detected steadily…

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