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Health & Medicine

Drug Combo Shows Promise in Slowing Male Breast Cancer

Zeina Nahleh, MD, director of breast oncology in the University of Cincinnati’s (UC) division of hematology and oncology, is leading a national phase-2…

Environmental Conservation

Corals Adapt Skeleton Material to Changing Seawater Conditions

That's the startling conclusion drawn by a Johns Hopkins University marine geologist, writing in the July issue of the journal Geology. Postdoctoral fellow…

Life & Chemistry

Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease

In the July 7, 2006, issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) describe experiments that may soon…

Health & Medicine

Researchers get closer to preventing Alzheimer's disease

An estimated 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and presently there are no known cures or effective preventive strategies. “Alzheimer's Disease is…

Environmental Conservation

Study Links Warming Climate to Increased Western US Wildfires

A new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, implicates rising seasonal temperatures and…

Environmental Conservation

New Initiative Aims to Combat Global Amphibian Crisis

In a policy statement to be published Friday in the journal Science, the scientists say that 32 percent of all amphibian species are threatened and at least…

Earth Sciences

Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range

“The debate falls into two camps,” said C. Page Chamberlain, professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. “One is that the…

Life & Chemistry

University of Minnesota Unveils Insights on Cellular Suicide

The chopping up of a cell's DNA occurs in response to damage, for example, from ultraviolet light, and appears to be a means of killing the cell before it can…

Social Sciences

We're lazy but Chinese want to be just like us

But they also want to be one of us. They aspire to a more relaxed lifestyle in a country they see as free, tolerant, multicultural and democratic.”Gone are the…

Health & Medicine

Anabolic Steroid Use Linked to Gingival Tissue Damage

Researchers found that prolonged use of anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) is closely associated with significant levels of gingival enlargement, according to a…

Studies and Analyses

Sustaining the Lobster Fishery: Insights from New Study

Research Specialist Hauke Kite-Powell of the Marine Policy Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and former lobsterman Dick Allen of Rhode…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Targets Cell Energy, Blocking Enzyme Function

“Many drugs block the function of enzymes, essentially turning them off ,” said Gary Glick, who is the Werner E. Bachmann Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at…

Health & Medicine

Inflammatory Markers That Predict Stroke Risk Explained

The study included patients from different Autonomous Communities and that had suffered a stroke one to three months previously. By means of periodical…

Health & Medicine

Hypertension’s Impact on Cardiac Health: New Blood Test Insights

The authors designed a blood analysis which detects whether this mechanism is damaging the heart, which in turn makes possible the use of therapeutic…

Physics & Astronomy

Mare Humorum: Exploring Basalt Craters on the Moon

AMIE obtained the top frame on 1 January 2006, from a distance of 1087 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 98 metres per pixel. The…

Health & Medicine

Standardizing Genetic Testing Results Across Laboratories

Because the underlying technology, PCR amplification, is now routine in all molecular genetics laboratories, there has been an implicit assumption that MSI…

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