 Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells September 01, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the laws of nature states that empty spaces don’t stay empty for long. Be it the flowerbed, which is overgrown with weeds in no time, or the gap in your appointment calendar, which ... | |
Researchers piece together gene 'network' linked to schizophrenia September 02, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Reporting this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have uncovered for the first time molecular circuitry associated with schizophrenia that links three ... | |
 Baby's smell tamps down dad's testosterone levels September 03, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Does eau de infant make dad a better parent? It does, it seems, if you are a common marmoset, a New World monkey known for its collaborative approach to rearing offspring. | |
Studies spot numerous undiscovered gene alterations in pancreatic and brain cancers September 04, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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HHMI investigators have detected a multitude of broken, missing, and overactive genes in pancreatic and brain tumors, in the most detailed genetic survey yet of any human tumor. Some of these genetic changes were previously ... | |
 Researchers Find 'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled ... | |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September. | |
 Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular ... | |
New approach, old drug show promise against hepatitis C, research shows August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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The fight against the liver disease hepatitis C has been at something of an impasse for years, with more than 150 million people currently infected, and traditional antiviral treatments causing nasty side effects and often ... | |
New discovery about growth factor can be breakthrough for cancer research September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A research team at the Ludwig Institute and Uppsala University has discovered an entirely new signal path for a growth factor that is of crucial importance for the survival and growth of cancer cells. This discovery, published ... | |
Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic ... | |
 Amateur Astronomers See Perseids Hit the Moon September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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One, the old-fashioned way: Find a dark place with starry skies and count the meteors streaking overhead. Two, the new way: Find a dark place with starry skies and then completely ignore the meteors. Instead, ... | |
 Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ... | |
World-first trial proves exercise helps memory September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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West Australian health experts are urging older people to get active after proving for the first time that just 20 minutes of activity each day can prevent memory deterioration. | |
Substance found in fruits and vegetables reduces likelihood of the flu September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful ... | |
 Theory of the sun's role in formation of the solar system questioned September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone and thought ... | |
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