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Do College Sports Boost Future Earnings for Athletes?

Do student athletes financially outperform their non-athlete counterparts after they graduate from college – or do the earnings of college athletes lag behind?

Physics & Astronomy

Chandra Independently Measures Hubble Constant’s Impact

“The reason this result is so significant is that we need the Hubble constant to tell us the size of the Universe, its age, and how much matter it contains,”…

Studies and Analyses

Unique Huntington's study moves forward

Doctors have completed the first step of a unique medical research study, evaluating 1,001 individuals at risk of developing Huntington's disease who do not…

Life & Chemistry

Failure of 'scout cells' may lead to cancer in transplant patients

The cancer is caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a herpesvirus that infects more than 90 percent of Americans but is ordinarily kept under control by the…

Health & Medicine

Nutrition and Oral Cancer: The Impact of Folate Levels

Folate levels are different in smokers and non-smokers, according to Joel Mason, MD, director of the USDA HNRCA's Vitamins and Carcinogenesis Laboratory and…

Health & Medicine

New Discovery Enhances Autoimmune Disease Treatment Options

The ability to easily make large numbers of these cells opens the door to improved treatment and a better understanding of autoimmune diseases such as type1…

Health & Medicine

Digital Cameras and Internet Transform Oral Disease Screening

Dental researchers are combining the ease of digital photography with the Internet to develop a new and inexpensive way to screen for a common childhood oral…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Model Reveals Insights into Cancer Cell Angiogenesis

Results were published online today in the advanced online issue of the journal, Angiogenesis. Melanoma, colorectal and pancreatic cell lines proliferated,…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Shows Rett Syndrome Affects Males Too

“The common thinking in the past had been that Rett syndrome only affects girls, and that the genetic flaw would be so serious in boys that they would die…

Life & Chemistry

Unmasking nutrition's role in genes and birth defects

“By the time most women know they are pregnant, the development of the fetus' organs is essentially complete,” said Bryce Mendelsohn, co-author and an…

Life & Chemistry

Discover How CREB Affects Drinking and Anxiety Levels

In previous studies, the UIC researchers had first identified a gene that controls anxiety and alcohol consumption.”We knew that gene, called CREB, controls…

Studies and Analyses

Strong evidence of a genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is a debilitating neurological disease that affects about 1 million people in the United States. Little is known about its causes and hence…

Health & Medicine

Frequent Recalls of Automated External Defibrillators Highlight Reliability Issues

The findings, reported in the August 9 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), suggest the need for a more reliable system to locate…

Health & Medicine

Hib Vaccine Routine Could Eliminate Killer Disease in Africa

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) today publishes research showing that routine vaccination of infants in Kenya against H. influenzae Type…

Life & Chemistry

Nanowire ‘barcode’ system speeds biodetection in the field

The researchers, led by Jeffrey Tok of LLNL’s BioSecurity and Nanosciences Laboratory, built submicrometer layers of different metals including gold, silver…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Uses Abdomen to Deliver Oxygen to Lungs

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have helped develop a technique in animal models for using the abdominal cavity to exchange…

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