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Life & Chemistry

Fast-Tracking Medicine: 10,000 Years of Testing in Just 1 Year

Developing new medicines is usually a long and costly process. Now, methods are being developed at Norwegian University of Science and Technology – that allow…

Health & Medicine

Maximizing Womens’ Health Benefits When Resources Are Limited

If a screening strategy for cervical cancer were introduced, it might provide a good opportunity to offer women other health checks, but it is unclear which…

Health & Medicine

Malaria’s Impact on First-Time Mothers: Preeclampsia Risks

Preeclampsia is thought to be more common in parts of the world where there is a serious malaria problem and it has often been speculated that there might be a…

Physics & Astronomy

MIT Student Group Offers Space Sponsorship for Your Brand

The group is offering to put logos, photos, messages and other images on its new Earth-orbiting research spacecraft which will be launched into orbit in 2010. …

Health & Medicine

Supplementary breathing system – sets new standards

By developing new types of therapy, the high-tech company AIRNERGY from Hennef, near Bonn, has created a completely new standard: with its supplementary…

Life & Chemistry

Genes offer researchers a 'crystal ball' to help them prevent, diagnose and treat cancer

All of these novel findings need much more examination, of course, but scientists at the American Association for Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer…

Health & Medicine

Accelerated Aging in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Mayo Clinic Insights

Laboratory scientists have observed that RA and other diseases can cause multiple systems within the body to age more rapidly than expected. Cells affected by…

Life & Chemistry

Ang2 Protein: A Breakthrough in Acute Lung Injury Research

The study, which was completed in the laboratory of senior author Jack Elias, M.D., the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor and chair of internal medicine at Yale,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Propane Fuel Cell Success at Exit Glacier Nature Center

The cell, manufactured by Massachusetts-based Acumentrics and installed at the Kenai Fjords National Park’s Exit Glacier Nature Center near Seward, ran for…

Life & Chemistry

UVA Researchers Study Link Between "Alzheimer's Gene" And Protection from Early Childhood Diarrhea

“In earlier studies, we found that shantytown children in Northeast Brazil who suffer from early childhood diarrhea and malnutrition suffered from lasting…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Reveals Brain Protein’s Role in Memory Control

The protein, called Arc, has been implicated in memory-linked behaviors ranging from song learning in birds to rodents being aware of 3-D space. In people, Arc…

Physics & Astronomy

Cloudy day won't rain on laser communications

“Radio frequency communications are generally reliable and well understood, but cannot support emerging data rate needs unless they use a large portion of the…

Life & Chemistry

PSA-Activated Protoxin Targets and Kills Prostate Cancer Cells

Scientists have found a way of using a protein made by prostate cancer to target and kill the cancer cells themselves. In preliminary studies the new therapy…

Studies and Analyses

Patients Thrive in First Study of Higher Anti-Cancer Drug Doses

Researchers in the UK and the United States have found that a drug composed of an antibody carrying a highly toxic anti-cancer agent is well tolerated by…

Materials Sciences

Neural Networking Nanotubes: Advancements in Biomedical Devices

New implantable biomedical devices that can act as artificial nerve cells, control severe pain, or allow otherwise paralyzed muscles to be moved might one day…

Life & Chemistry

New Micro-RNAs Biomarkers Discovered for Lupus Diagnosis

The biomarkers are micro-ribonucleic acids (micro-RNAs), said Nilamadhab Mishra, M.D. He and colleagues reported at the American College of Rheumatology…

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