PITTSBURGH -- A University of Pittsburgh-led team has created a single-electron transistor that provides a building block for new, more powerful computer memories, advanced electronic materials, and the basic components of quantum computers.
Apr 18, 2011
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2011 -- Mention vitamin D-fortified foods and most people think of milk, which has been fortified with the sunshine vitamin since the 1930s.
Apr 18, 2011
Illicit drug overdose deaths in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside dropped by 35 per cent after the establishment of Insite, North America's first supervised…
Apr 18, 2011
AURORA (April 13, 2011) -- A new study led by Allison Kempe, MD, MPH, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of…
Apr 18, 2011
(NEW YORK, NY, April 15, 2011) -- Many genes that cause human diseases have parallel genes in other organisms, including yeast.
Apr 18, 2011
People who are medically vulnerable -- those with low incomes or chronic health problems -- who enroll in high-deductible health plans are at no more risk for…
Apr 18, 2011
A reptile that lived 275-million years ago in what is now Oklahoma is giving paleontologists a glimpse of the oldest known toothache.
Apr 18, 2011
JUPITER, FL, April 17, 2011 -- Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed the first of a new class of highly selective compounds that effectively suppresses the severity of multiple sclerosis in animal models.
Apr 18, 2011
Washington, D.C. -- Parents offered genetic testing to predict their risks of common, adult-onset health conditions say they would also test their children.
Apr 17, 2011
Tampa, FL (April 18, 2011) -- Non-Hispanic black infants born with heart defects are more likely to die within the first five years of life than their non-Hispanic white and Hispanic peers.
Apr 17, 2011
PHILADELPHIA -- (April 15, 2011) -- The proteins that provide cells with a sense of personal space could lead to a therapeutic target for Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2), an inherited cancer disorder, according to researchers at The Wistar Institute.
Apr 17, 2011
SAN DIEGO -- (April 17, 2011) -- Michael Croft, Ph.D., a researcher at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, has discovered a molecule's…
Apr 17, 2011
The scientific study of human heredity has and has always had two types of practical application: relief of suffering and human improvement.
Apr 15, 2011
Easy-to-follow recipes for radioactive compounds like those found in nuclear fuel storage pools, liquid waste containment areas and other contaminated aqueous environments have been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.
Apr 15, 2011
