A new study led by Northern Arizona University and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates Arctic temperatures have reversed from a long-term…
Sep 3, 2009
Species living in restricted environments such as the tropics may lack adequate variation in their genes and be unable to adapt to climate change, according to a new study.
Sep 3, 2009
NEW YORK -- New research from Columbia University Medical Center has illuminated a previously unknown leptin-serotonin pathway in the brain that simultaneously promotes appetite and bone mass accrual.
Sep 3, 2009
A new study finds substantial improvement in a mouse model of a rare, hereditary neurodegenerative disease after transplantation of normal human neural stem cells.
Sep 3, 2009
If you looked down on it from outer space, the Mid-South Mississippi Delta region would appear as a gigantic green blob – one of the largest collections of biomass on the planet.
Sep 3, 2009
(Boston) -- The joys of motherhood for many women can also lead other new moms to experience postpartum depression and even worse -- ideas for committing suicide.
Sep 3, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In a biological rendition of fiction's Strange Case of Dr.
Sep 3, 2009
The discoveries continue to surprise for a team of UC students digging in Shawnee Lookout Park, with a major new mound being located and a rare kiln used to…
Sep 3, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated…
Sep 2, 2009
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is involved in a preliminary study and case report describing positive responses to an experimental anticancer drug in a majority of people with advanced or metastatic basal cell skin cancers.
Sep 2, 2009
The targeted therapy Avastin, alone and in combination with the chemotherapy drug CPT-11, significantly increased response rates, progression-free survival times and survival rates in patients with a deadly form of brain cancer that had recurred.
Sep 2, 2009
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have traced the evolution of the four-chambered human heart to a common genetic factor linked to the development of hearts in turtles and other reptiles.
Sep 2, 2009
A key compound resupplies bone marrow with fast-acting stem cells that can more quickly rekindle blood cell production, according to a study published online today in the journal Blood.
Sep 2, 2009
New York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live.
Sep 2, 2009
