The researchers, Marco Prado, Marc Caron, Vania Prado, and their colleagues, said their findings reveal a critical role in central nervous system (CNS)…
The odds are more than two to one that people whose close relatives developed chronic severe unipolar depression when they were young will have it, too,…
The finding, published in the Sept. 4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online, identifies the activity of a critical segment of a viral protein…
The study offers the first detailed image of chloropyhll-a – the main ingredient in the photosynthesis process – and shows how scientists can use new…
Scientists are using airplanes, sensors, radar, computer modeling programs and NASA satellites to better understand hurricanes. Some of the NASA satellites…
UCLA scientists have discovered that infants who possess a specific immune gene that too closely resembles their mothers' are more likely to develop…
Scientists at Michigan State University report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have identified genes unique to the…
“Car collisions are two to four times more likely to occur among teens with ADHD. Past studies have shown that stimulants commonly used to treat ADHD can help…
A type of protein crucial for the growth of brain cells during development appears to be equally important for the formation of long-term memories, according…
It's as if the usual age-related hearing loss in women whose HRT included progestin, a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, was accelerated compared to…
F. Pederiva et al. Physical Review Letters (forthcoming article, available to journalists on request)Applying techniques derived from classical and quantum…
Researchers add that with advances in imaging, almost 70 percent of kidney cancer patients have their tumor detected at a very small size (less than 4 cm),…
Untreated diabetic leg ulcers may result in amputations.According to the Center of Disease Control, one out of six diabetics will require an amputation (below…
The results of this study appear in the September 2006 issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver…
Incontinence is common among men. A new study shows that a forth of men between the ages of 40 – 80 suffers from different symptoms of incontinence. Despite…
Using radioactive carbon and genetically modified native tobacco plants (Nicotiana attenuata), scientists at Max Planck Institutes in Jena and Golm (Potsdam)…
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