A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable to trigger an autoimmune disease similar to the multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work.
Feb 26, 2010
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows mice infected with the bacteria salmonella develop clinical signs consistent with a deadly and poorly understood human inflammatory disease, a finding that may lead to new therapies.
Feb 25, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Women given the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention drug nevirapine to protect their fetus should not use an HIV-drug regimen…
Feb 25, 2010
UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 -- a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need -- from human cells.
Feb 25, 2010
PHILADELPHIA ?- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research-Zürich have fabricated an ultra sharp…
Feb 25, 2010
Working with mice, Johns Hopkins scientists who tested drugs intended to halt growth of brain cancer stem cells -- a small population of cells within tumors…
Feb 25, 2010
Huixin He, associate professor, nanoscale chemistry at Rutgers University, Newark, and Tamara Minko, professor at the Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy…
Feb 25, 2010
Dark matter, for more than 70 years as mysterious and unknowable a subject to science as the legendary island of Atlantis has been to history, is bringing 140…
Feb 25, 2010
Editor's note: We are posting this story from the April 2010 issue early. [More]
Feb 25, 2010
New research using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows that childhood stress such as abuse or emotional neglect, in particular when combined with genetic…
Feb 25, 2010
A three-year field program now underway is measuring carbon distributions and primary productivity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to help scientists worldwide determine the impacts of a changing climate on ocean biology and biogeochemistry.
Feb 25, 2010
CORAL GABLES, FL (February 25, 2010)----A new study by researchers from the University of Miami shows that maternal sensitivity may influence language development among children who go on to develop autism.
Feb 25, 2010
February 24, 2010, New Orleans, LA. Advanced cancer patients who regularly received massages averaging 14 minutes or more by a partner or family member…
Feb 25, 2010
Life can be scary for endangered loggerhead sea turtles immediately after they hatch.
Feb 25, 2010
