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Higher carotid arterial stenting rates associated with poorer clinical outcomes

November 7, 2009

PHILADELPHIA -- Among eligible Medicare beneficiaries, increased use of carotid arterial stenting (CAS) procedures to treat carotid stenosis -- the narrowing of the carotid artery -- is associated

AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access

November 7, 2009

To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articl

Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others

November 7, 2009

Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts.

CERN

November 7, 2009

LHC will start his work ...... (-:

Truth and myth

November 6, 2009

God created mankind to Alhanifip, faith and truth in the same out of all human beings, it creates Maftora the truth, know the truth and falsehood, aligned to the right, realization of the right muse,

1930s drug slows tumor growth

November 6, 2009

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease.

DNA barcodes: Creative new uses span health, fraud, smuggling, history, more

November 6, 2009

The scientific ability to quickly and accurately identify species through DNA "barcoding" is being embraced and applied by a growing legion of global authorities -- from medical and agricultural r

'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies

November 6, 2009

Pasadena, CA -- Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its cha

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

November 6, 2009

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 yea

SNM applauds House action to build medical isotopes reactor in the US

November 6, 2009

Reston, Va. -- SNM applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276 -- the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009.

We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information

November 6, 2009

People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items.

Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with ?chemical precision?

November 6, 2009

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces.

DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology

November 6, 2009

Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology.

Carnegie Mellon researchers link health-care debate to risk of dying in US and Europe

November 6, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- The current health care debate in the United States is complicated.



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