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Life & Chemistry

New Gene HTRA1 Linked to Macular Degeneration Risk

Researchers at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah have identified a gene called HTRA1 that contributes to a major risk of Age Related…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists identify switch for brain's natural anti-oxidant defense

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report they have found how the brain turns on a system designed to protect its nerve cells from toxic “free…

Life & Chemistry

Study Links Temperament to Cancer Risk in Female Rats

Female rats that are apprehensive of new experiences as infants maintain that temperament and die earlier from mammary and pituitary tumors than do their more…

Life & Chemistry

New Hearing Gene Discovery Enhances Auditory Processing in Mice

The researchers found that mice lacking the gene otoferlin are profoundly deaf. The animals' deafness results from an inability to translate sound stimulation…

Studies and Analyses

Safe Listening: New Guidelines for iPod Music Levels

The study indicates a typical person can safely listen to an iPod for 4.6 hours per day at 70 percent volume using stock earphones, according to Cory Portnuff,…

Studies and Analyses

Visual Imagery Technique Enhances Voting Engagement

It was all a matter of the visual perspective people took when they imagined themselves voting. Researchers asked some Ohio college students to picture…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Stem Cells’ Role in Radiation Resistance Uncovered

The researchers also identified a method that appears to block the cells' ability to activate the repair switch following radiation treatment. This finding may…

Life & Chemistry

EMEA and FDA Update Drug Label Following EORTC 24971 Trial

In its September meeting 2006, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) gave a positive opinion to…

Physics & Astronomy

UGR Scientists Join ESA’s Quest to Uncover Universe’s Origins

They are some of the questions mission Planck intends to answer starting on 2007, one of the most ambitious projects of the ESA (European Space Agency) in…

Architecture & Construction

A UGR researcher proposes a formula to measure the seismic resistance of reinforced concrete buildings

Recently, it has been suggested a new formula, confirmed with numerical simulations, which is going to make the prediction of the seismic resistance of…

Environmental Conservation

China’s Dragon Training: Enhancing Atmospheric Research

ESA and the National Remote Sensing Centre of China (NRSCC) are sponsoring the course under the framework of the Dragon Programme – a wide-ranging research…

Health & Medicine

Physiotherapists and Pharmacists: Reducing Knee Pain Effectively

Researchers from Keele University undertook a study funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign involving over 300 people with knee pain. The participants (aged…

Studies and Analyses

Color Names: Universal Patterns in Color Classification

Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic colors into eight distinct categories: red, green, yellow-or-orange, blue, purple,…

Medical Engineering

Leica FL800: New FDA-Approved Tool for Vascular Neurosurgery

Leica Microsystems has received an FDA 510(k) approval for the Leica FL800, an intra-operative video angiography device for the viewing of blood flow in the…

Life & Chemistry

Earliest Fungi Found Diverse Solutions for Land Propagation

In a report published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature, the researchers outlined evidence that the ancestors of mushrooms, lichens and various other fungi may…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhanced Superconductivity in Nanowires: A New Theory Unveiled

Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign not only have discovered an unusual phenomenon in which ultra-narrow wires show enhanced…

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