SEATTLE -- The worst global economic crisis in decades has not stopped public and private donors from giving record amounts of money to health assistance for…
Nov 30, 2010
URBANA -- The University of Illinois scientists who linked eating tomatoes with a reduced risk of prostate cancer have developed a tool that will help them trace the metabolism of tomato carotenoids in the human body.
Nov 29, 2010
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- -- Scientists can use cylinders as small as teapots to study the mechanisms involved in powerful hurricanes and other swirling natural phenomena.
Nov 29, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of…
Nov 29, 2010
An international team of scientists has developed a new technique to aid crops at risk from a devastating agricultural parasite commonly known as the 'honey fungus', one of the most serious diseases of trees and shrubs across the northern hemisphere.
Nov 29, 2010
HACKENSACK, N.J. (November 22, 2010) -- The John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center announced today that it will present research…
Nov 29, 2010
WALTHAM, MA -- November 28, 2010 -- Avila Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel targeted covalent drugs, has published research in…
Nov 29, 2010
TECHBREAK is a new foresight initiative led by the European Science Foundation to identify the technology areas that could benefit the space sector.
Nov 29, 2010
Expectations are high that the public will use performance data to choose their health providers and so drive improvements in quality.
Nov 25, 2010
Cleveland -- Materials scientists from Case Western Reserve University and the Institute of Solid State Research in Jülich, Germany have produced particularly clear changes in the atomic structure of sapphire following deformation at high temperatures.
Nov 25, 2010
Women are underrepresented and on average perform more poorly than men in introductory physics.
Nov 25, 2010
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have identified key components of a signaling pathway that controls the departure of neurons from the brain niche where they form and allows these cells to start migrating to their final destination.
Nov 25, 2010
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a new study to be published in the Nov. 25 issue of Nature, MIT cancer biologists show that restoring the protein p53's function in mice…
Nov 24, 2010
Children living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods are more likely to succeed if they participate in a community-based prevention program, according to findings released recently from a multi-year research study based at Queen's University.
Nov 24, 2010
