Cell movements totally modular, study shows 19 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A study describing how cells within blood vessel walls move en masse overturns an assumption common in the age of genomics — that the proteins driving cell behavior are doing so much multitasking that it would be near impossible ... | |
 New movement models tested at the Smithsonian in Panama 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Feeling threatened? Hungry? Looking for a mate? Move! Tracking and remote sensing data are making it easier to locate organisms and find out what they are up to. However, general theories of movement are lacking. ... | |
In space, a cluster of health dangers 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Space shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson and his crew took a small but crucial step for space travel in the past two weeks, enlarging the International Space Station so it can house six astronauts instead of three. | |
Protection from the own immune system 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Some 80,000 people in Germany suffer from multiple sclerosis – their immune system attacks and destroys healthy nerve tissue. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg ... | |
Study on wildlife corridors shows how they work over time 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
At the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, there are five strange looking "patches" cleared out of the surrounding forest. No, they're not crop circles carved by aliens. | |
Researchers learn that some 'good cholesterol' isn't good enough 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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If you think your levels of "good cholesterol" are good enough, a new study published in the December 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that you may want to think again. In the report, researchers from the University ... | |
Scientists show function of helical band in heart 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created images of the heart's muscular layer that show, for the first time, the connection between the configuration of those muscles and the way the human ... | |
Social factors, not mental illness, to blame for high male suicide rate 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The popular assumption that most suicides are the result of depression or other mental illness has been challenged by a study of male suicide which will be launched later today by researchers at the University ... | |
Psychiatric disorders common among college-age individuals; few seek treatment 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Psychiatric disorders appear to be common among 18- to 24-year-olds, with overall rates similar among those attending or not attending college, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. ... | |
Who's most likely to be swept away? 13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
If you think the person most likely to be involved in an avalanche this winter will be a young hot-dogger who doesn't know any better, think again. | |
Symptoms of depression associated with increase in abdominal fat 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Older adults with symptoms of depression appear more likely to gain abdominal fat, but not overall fat, over a five-year period, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. | |
Warning to London 2012: Decide now or pay later 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Olympic Games organisers are being warned to make key decisions now about the long-term use of the 2012 stadium - or face costs that will spiral out of control. | |
Sex life of killer fungus finally revealed 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Biologists at The University of Nottingham and University College Dublin have announced a major breakthrough in our understanding of the sex life of a microscopic fungus which is a major cause of death in immune deficient ... | |
Antibiotics: Single largest class of drugs causing liver injury 15 hours ago | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Antibiotics are the single largest class of agents that cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI), reports a new study in Gastroenterology, an official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association ... | |
Internet boosts reports of child pornography 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
Reports presented at the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents underlines the fact that the sexual exploitation of minors has transcended national borders and is becoming an increasingly ... | |
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