Children who live in areas with fewer pediatricians are more likely to suffer life-threatening ruptures of the appendix than those in areas with more…
Dec 29, 2010
A team of Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers has discovered that a protein involved in cystic fibrosis (CF) also regulates inflammation and cell death in emphysema and may be responsible for other chronic lung diseases.
Dec 29, 2010
DALLAS -- Dec. 29, 2010 -- Patients with diabetes, kidney disease and anemia who don't respond to treatment with an anti-anemia drug have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease or death, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
Dec 28, 2010
Taking a leaf from animals like dolphins and pilot whales that are known to have anti-fouling skins, researchers from A*STAR's Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON) are using nanotechnology to create synthetic, chemical-free, anti-bacterial surfaces.
Dec 28, 2010
Just as raging hormones are part of the process of a child's maturation through the teen years to adulthood, juvenile hormones, a group of insect isoprenoids…
Dec 27, 2010
DALLAS -- Dec. 26, 2010 -- New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers may solve a 17-year-old mystery about how the so-called "starvation…
Dec 27, 2010
Native Americans (such as the Pomo, the Ge, the Serrano and Hupa), the Vikings and the Chinese all have their own myths about the lunar eclipse.
Dec 26, 2010
Emotional intelligence empowers positive attitudes and weakens negative behavior in the private sector; but does not have the same effect in the public sector
Dec 23, 2010
A study was carried out to examine the extent to which quercetin and trans-resveratrol (RSV) prevented inflammation or insulin resistance in primary cultures…
Dec 23, 2010
NEW YORK, December 23, 2010 -- A new study by Dr. Zvi Reich, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel, documents the…
Dec 22, 2010
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered how HIV binds to and destroys a specific human antiviral protein called APOBEC3F.
Dec 22, 2010
Researchers at The Wistar Institute announce the release of an online tool that will help scientists find "gene promoters" -- regions along a DNA strand that tell a cell's transcription machinery where to start reading in order to create a particular protein.
Dec 22, 2010
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2010 -- Just in time for New Year's Eve, and the arrival of the International Year of Chemistry, a study may settle that long-standing…
Dec 22, 2010
December 21, 2010 -- (BRONX, NY) -- Two researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that our 98.6° F (37° C) body…
Dec 22, 2010
