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NASA infrared satellite data see an intensifying Tropical Storm Dianne
Infrared satellite data from NASA’s Aqua satellite reveal that Tropical Storm Dianne is getting organized off the coast of Western Australia today.
NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) infrared imagery suggests that Dianne’s center of c…
NASA sees former Tropical Storm Carlos still a soaker in the Northern Territory
Now a remnant low pressure area, former Tropical Storm Carlos continues to move southwest inland over Australia’s Northern Territory and dump heavy amounts of rainfall. NASA’s Aqua satellite saw some of the high thunderstorms within Carlos over …
NASA Satellite sees most of Cyclone Bingiza’s rainfall over Mozambique Channel
Infrared data from NASA’s AIRS instrument revealed that the low level center of Cyclone Bingiza was still over land in western Madagascar this morning, but the bulk of its rainfall was over the Mozambique Channel.
When NASA’s Aqua satellite fl…
NASA satellites see Cyclone Bingiza move across northern Madagascar
Tropical Cyclone Bingiza has made landfall in northeastern Madagascar, and NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites captured visible infrared satellite data of the storm’s progression over the weekend, revealing the power behind the storm.
The movemen…
Cyclone Wilma’s eye catches attention of NASA satellites
Wilma caught the eye of NASA. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured visible and infrared images of Cyclone Wilma in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean and her eye was clearly visible from space.
On January 25 at 00:59 UTC (8:59 p.m. EST on Jan. 24), the A…
Genetic sequencing alone doesn’t offer a true picture of human disease
DURHAM, N.C. — Despite what you might have heard, genetic sequencing alone is not enough to understand human disease. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have shown that functional tests are absolutely necessary to understand the biologi…
Possible missing link between young and old galaxies
University of California, Berkeley, astronomers may have found the missing link between gas-filled, star-forming galaxies and older, gas-depleted galaxies typically characterized as “red and dead.”
In a poster to be presented this week at t…
Universities miss chance to identify depressed students
CHICAGO — One out of every four or five students who visits a university health center for a routine cold or sore throat turns out to be depressed, but most centers miss the opportunity to identify these students because they don’t screen for depr…
Some cancer drugs may block cellular ‘cross talk’ but not kill cancer cells
AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 22, 2010) — A class of drugs thought to kill cancer cells may in fact block “cross talk” between the cancer cell and normal immune cells, resulting in reduced cancer growth and spread — a discovery that could significantly alte…
Robotic surgery for head and neck cancer shows promise
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Less-invasive robotic surgery for upper airway and digestive track malignant tumors is as effective as other minimally invasive surgical techniques based on patient function and survival, according to University of Alabama at Bi…
Novel therapy for metastatic kidney cancer developed at VCU Massey Cancer Center
Richmond, Va. (Dec. 15, 2010) — Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) have developed a novel virus-based gene therapy for renal cell carcinoma that has been shown …
NASA satellites see heavy rainfall and displaced thunderstorms in System 94B
System 94B has not been classified as a tropical depression, but NASA satellite data has shown that it is creating heavy rainfall near India’s southeastern coast. A second NASA satellite revealed that strong wind shear is continuing to push convec…
Are depressed people too clean?
In an effort to pinpoint potential triggers leading to inflammatory responses that eventually contribute to depression, researchers are taking a close look at the immune system of people living in today’s cleaner modern society.
Rates of depressio…
Small molecule may disarm enemy of cancer-fighting p53
ORLANDO — A pioneering clinical trial is testing the effectiveness in leukemia of a small molecule that shuts down MDM2, a protein that can disable the well-known tumor suppressor p53.
Michael Andreeff, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Medicine and ch…
Diabetes may clamp down on cholesterol the brain needs
BOSTON — November 30, 2010 — The brain contains more cholesterol than any other organ in the body, has to produce its own cholesterol and won’t function normally if it doesn’t churn out enough. Defects in cholesterol metabolism have been linked …
Drop in breast cancer rates directly tied to reduced hormone therapy
In a new UCSF study of more than 2 million mammogram screenings performed on nearly 700,000 women in the United States, scientists for the first time show a direct link between reduced hormone therapy and declines in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) …
The John Theurer Cancer Center to unveil 40 presentations at the 52nd ASH Annual Meeting
HACKENSACK, N.J. (November 22, 2010) — The John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center announced today that it will present research updates and clinical trial results of 40 cutting-edge studies at the 52nd Annual American S…
NERSC supercomputing center breaks the petaflops barrier
BERKELEY, Calif. — The Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world’s leading centers for scientific productivity, is now home to the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world an…
GUMC: fMRI predicts outcome to talk therapy in children with an anxiety disorder
San Diego – A brain scan with functional MRI (fMRI) is enough to predict which patients with pediatric anxiety disorder will respond to “talk therapy,” and so may not need to use psychiatric medication, say neuroscientists from Georgetown University…
Astronomers find giant, previously unseen structure in our galaxy
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way — a finding likened in terms of scale to the discovery of a new continent on Earth. The feature, which spans 50,000 light-years, may be …
Lupus patients: The doctor, nurse and social worker are here to see you
The benefits of collaborative, multidisciplinary care of patients with complex autoimmune diseases like lupus and multiple sclerosis are just beginning to be appreciated by physicians. Hospital for Special Surgery in New York will present evidence o…
NASA sees Tropical Depression Jal’s remnants entering and leaving India
Jal was a tropical storm when it made landfall this weekend on the east coast of India and tracked across the country while weakening into a remnant low pressure area. NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Jal’s center as it was entering eas…
Tropical Storm Anggrek is tightly wrapped in NASA satellite imagery
Bands of strong thunderstorms are wrapping around the center of Tropical Storm Anggrek in the Southern Indian Ocean, according to satellite imagery. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared look at those strong thunderstorms today.
NASA’s A…
Daily dose of beet juice promotes brain health in older adults
Winston-Salem, N.C. — Researchers for the first time have shown that drinking beet juice can increase blood flow to the brain in older adults — a finding that could hold great potential for combating the progression of dementia.
The research f…
Learning the truth not effective in battling rumors about NYC mosque, study finds
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Evidence is no match against the belief in false rumors concerning the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City, a new study finds.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that fewer tha…
Knowledge of genetic cancer risks often dies with patients, finds VCU Massey Cancer Center
Richmond, Va. (Oct. 27, 2010) — If you were dying from cancer, would you consider genetic testing? A recent study conducted by researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center showed that most terminally ill cancer patients w…
Entire issue of scientific journal devoted to center headed by Scripps Research Scientists
LA JOLLA, CA, October 21, 2010 — A multi-institutional consortium led by The Scripps Research Institute scientists, the Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG), is the sole focus of a special issue of the journal Acta Crystallographica Sectio…
Mount Sinai researchers discover why cocaine is so addictive
Mount Sinai researchers have discovered how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes addictive. These findings — the first to connect activation of specific neurons to alterations in cocaine reward — were published in Science on October 15. The resu…
GOES-13 on top of new seventeenth Atlantic (sub) tropical depression
The GOES-13 satellite keeps a vigilant eye on the Atlantic Ocean and eastern U.S. and this morning at 5 a.m. EDT it saw System 97L organize into the seventeenth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean season. The only catch is that it is actua…