COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A new study by Ohio State University cancer researchers provides a rational for treating breast cancer by combining two kinds of targeted…
Jan 14, 2011
A research team from across the United States and Ecuador has pinpointed 1898 as the year the avipoxvirus, or avian pox, hit the Galapagos Islands and started infecting its birds.
Jan 13, 2011
GALVESTON, TX -- Drugs that pharmaceutical companies market most aggressively to physicians and patients tend to offer less benefit and more harm to most…
Jan 13, 2011
BATON ROUGE -- We live in a world almost completely dependent upon machinery. Since the creation of the simple wheel, humans have found ways to increase quality of life and advance scientific knowledge using these devices.
Jan 13, 2011
Men are more likely than women to seek jobs in which competition with coworkers affects pay rates, a preference that might help explain persistent pay differences between men and women, a study at the University of Chicago shows.
Jan 13, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories.
Jan 13, 2011
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- U.S. agricultural practices create 58 percent of nitrous oxide in the world, which is the third most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Jan 13, 2011
Doctors are calling for women to receive more information about the pitfalls of breast cancer screening, as well as the benefits, after some women who received false-positive results faced serious anxiety and reduced quality of life for at least a year.
Jan 13, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- New research shows that oncolytic viruses, which are engineered to destroy cancer cells, might be more effective in treating deadly brain tumors if equipped with an enzyme that helps them penetrate the tumor.
Jan 13, 2011
A new study from North Carolina State University highlights a major flaw in attempting to use a single survey question to assess public opinion on science issues.
Jan 13, 2011
Chevy Chase, MD -- According to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM)…
Jan 13, 2011
In the first update of the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatric Society's guidelines on preventing falls in older persons since 2001, they now…
Jan 12, 2011
Grand Rapids, Mich. (January 12, 2011) -- Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have developed a method that can yield more information from archived…
Jan 12, 2011
A new assessment of global earthquake fatalities over the past three decades indicates that 83 percent of all deaths caused by the collapse of buildings during earthquakes occurred in countries considered to be unusually corrupt.
Jan 12, 2011
