“Our findings now provide tangible targets for effective drug development. Up to now, there has been little in the way of treatment options for this disease,…
Working closely with teams at Shell International Exploration and Production, the MIT researchers have demonstrated the power of one of their procedures by…
James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee examined the statistical connection between the average global near-surface air temperature and…
Toxoplasma gondii is one nasty bug. A microscopic parasite, it lives in the intestinal tract of cats but can be carried by most warm-blooded animals. In…
Elevated blood levels of the protein cystatin C accurately predict higher risk of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and death among elderly…
In a paper to be published online the week of Aug. 14 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Northwestern University research team sheds new…
The study found that the brains of rats bred to be lean are more sensitive to a chemical produced in the brain, orexin A, which stimulates appetite and…
Results from a nationwide study showed that students who took private SAT prep classes averaged scores 60 points higher on their SAT tests compared to those…
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a liver cancer with an extremely poor prognosis because of its propensity to spread and invade surrounding tissues. Dr. Xin…
In a forthcoming study in Nature Chemical Biology, investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Medical Research Council of Molecular…
Researchers at the University of Washington and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered several new genetic causes of mental retardation, according…
Scientists have long assumed that a crystal needs to be perfect to sustain stress at its theoretical limit. Beyond this point dislocations in the crystal…
The new studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Susan L. Ackerman and colleagues at The Jackson Laboratory point to a novel mechanism…
While many studies have shown that marriage helps boost well-being, most studies have looked at a general, average population and don't examine whether some…
In the first head-to-head comparison between two commonly used HIV treatments, researchers found one triple-drug therapy was significantly more effective at…
The loss of ice has been occurring about five times faster from Greenland's southeastern region in the past two years than in the previous year and a half. The…
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