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Life & Chemistry

Melanoma Cells Secrete Protein Essential for Embryo Formation

An article describing this research was published today in the advanced online issue of the journal Nature Medicine. The researchers identified the potent and…

Environmental Conservation

Iowa State Researchers Turn Farm Waste Into Bio-Oil

It wasn't that bad.That mix of manure and corn stalks had spent 27 days breaking down in a special drying process. The end result looked like brown yard mulch…

Health & Medicine

Onchocerciasis Treatment Cuts Prevalence and Intensity by 38%

This pathology causes a weakening in affected individuals, most of them within the labour force population, making this disease one of the limiting factors for…

Health & Medicine

UF Scientists Enhance Gene Therapy for Heart Conditions

UF researchers used the approach to successfully reverse symptoms in mice with a form of muscular dystrophy that damages the heart. They also tested the…

Physics & Astronomy

Mixed-Beam Radiation Therapy Reduces Damage in Breast Cancer

In treating shallow tumors such as those that occur in the breast, physicians have been turning to mixed-beam radiation therapy (MBRT), which employs separate…

Earth Sciences

Florida Hurricane Season Fuels Red Tide Concerns

The four hurricanes that crossed the Sunshine State in August and September 2004 dumped as much as 27 inches of rain (nearly double the historical values) in…

Environmental Conservation

Mosquito Spray Boosts Pyrethroid Toxicity in Creek Ecosystem

While the increase in toxicity was relatively modest, the effects from the interaction of chemicals were unexpected, the researchers said. Chicken Ranch…

Life & Chemistry

Protein’s Role in Immune Response Could Boost HIV Research

In the July 28 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Roman Dziarski, Ph.D., and Dipika Gupta, Ph.D., propose that the proteins might be used to develop…

Studies and Analyses

Study identifies potential drug target for Huntington's disease

An enzyme known to be critical for the repair of damaged cells and the maintenance of cellular energy may be a useful target for new strategies to treat…

Health & Medicine

Synthetic Scorpion Venom Targets Brain Tumors with Iodine

Adam N. Mamelak, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, led the Phase I trial and is first author of an…

Information Technology

Fingertip Device Translates Hand Gestures to Digital Input

UB researchers say their “Fingertip Digitizer,” which users wear on the tip of the index finger, can transfer to the virtual world the meaning and intent of…

Health & Medicine

Nanotechnology Delivers Low-Dose Treatment for Atherosclerosis

It's not so much the drug itself as how it was delivered. Fumagillin — a drug that can inhibit the growth of new blood vessels that feed atherosclerotic…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Blocking Cancer Cell Growth Without Cell Walls

A team from the Uppsala Branch of the global Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) has not only shown how the cell gets this timing right, but has also…

Physics & Astronomy

Mare Serenitatis: Insights into Crater Stats and Lunar History

AMIE obtained the images on 18 March 2006 from distances between 1257 and 1213 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution ranging between 114 and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Technique Makes Nuclear Waste Harmless in Decades

The new technique, reported in the August edition of Physics World, would render nuclear waste harmless on timescales of just a few tens of years, instead of…

Health & Medicine

Gifted kids reject schools' diet dictates but choose healthy eating

A poll of students at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth found that 68.7%of the students questioned thought schools should not be able to…

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