NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Rutgers researchers are developing methods that can accurately assess the severity of prostate cancer by analyzing magnetic resonance images and spectra of a patient's prostate gland.
Aug 10, 2010
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A simple morning walk to school could reduce stress reactivity in children during the school day, curbing increases in heart rate and blood…
Aug 10, 2010
KAO-HSIUNG, Taiwan -- August 10, 2010 -- An international team of scientists and technicians from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School, the…
Aug 10, 2010
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10 -- Single-molecule sequencing technology has detected and quantified novel small RNAs in human cells that represent entirely new classes of…
Aug 10, 2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Glaciologists who drilled through an ice cap perched precariously on the edge of a 16,000-foot-high Indonesian mountain ridge say that the ice field could vanish within in the next few years, another victim of global climate change.
Aug 10, 2010
Scientists from UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Korea's Yonsei University have developed an innovative method that enables nanomachines to release drugs inside living cancer cells when activated remotely by an oscillating magnetic field.
Aug 10, 2010
New Rochelle, NY, August 9, 2010 -- Without hands-on access to doctors and hospitals, oil rig workers who become sick or injured increasingly rely on…
Aug 9, 2010
What if trains, planes and automobiles all were powered simply by the air through which they move?
Aug 9, 2010
The fast-growing use of cell phones in Africa -- where many people lack the basic human necessities -- has made headlines worldwide the past few years.
Aug 9, 2010
INDIANAPOLIS -- Adding a direct acting anti-viral drug to the standard treatment regimen for hepatitis C significantly increases the cure rate in the most…
Aug 8, 2010
Genetic differences that make some people susceptible to developing meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, and others naturally immune, are revealed in a new study of over 6,000 people, published today in Nature Genetics.
Aug 8, 2010
Providing patients with chronic heart failure access to remote monitoring, for example by telephone or telemonitoring using wireless technology, reduces deaths and hospitalisations and may provide benefits on health care costs and quality of life.
Aug 7, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (7 August 2010) -- As the fate of Europe's largest collection of fruit and berries hangs in the balance of a Russian court decision, the…
Aug 7, 2010
A 15-year experiment in an outdoor "laboratory" on Ohio State University's campus shows that naturally colonizing wetlands can offer just as many, if not more, ecological services as will wetlands planted by humans.
Aug 6, 2010
