Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice.
Aug 27, 2010
Researchers at New York University have developed an innovative way to look at the development of osteoarthritis in the knee joint -- one that relies on the examination of sodium ions in cartilage.
Aug 27, 2010
Seoul, Korea, 25 August 2010. Almost half the agricultural land in the world, about a billion hectares, has more than 10 percent tree cover, but there is still huge potential to increase the number of trees on farmland and improve their productivity.
Aug 27, 2010
Rockville, Md., August 26, 2010 -- Recent incidents of adulteration involving infant formula, other milk products and pet food with the industrial chemical…
Aug 26, 2010
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A new national study not only has confirmed that children who have been exposed to disasters from earthquakes to fires are more prone to…
Aug 26, 2010
The integration of single-spin magnetoelectronics into standard silicon technology may soon be possible, if experiments confirm a new theoretical prediction by physicists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Aug 26, 2010
A University of Oklahoma technology -- GeoChip -- played a critical role in an intensive study of the dispersed oil plume that formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet some 10 miles from BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Aug 26, 2010
(PHILADELPHIA) -- Despite the fact that an estimated 25 million patients per year in the U.S.
Aug 26, 2010
FAIRFAX, Va. -- The unprecedented growth and promise of using thermal ablation to target and kill cancer is the subject of the Journal of Vascular and…
Aug 26, 2010
The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears takes place this Friday (27 August), thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the University of Southampton.
Aug 26, 2010
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25 -- Vitamin D may be an effective therapy to treat and even prevent allergy to a common mold that can cause severe complications for…
Aug 25, 2010
BATON ROUGE -- To establish a baseline for measuring and predicting the biological impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a LSU ichthyologist and an Ohio…
Aug 25, 2010
One in seven patients experience more pain, physical and emotional problems a year after surgery than before their operation and a quarter have less vitality.
Aug 25, 2010
Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability.
Aug 24, 2010
