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Full review of status finds a quarter of reef-building species in peril The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Spitzer telescope reveals young galaxy with a surprising rate of star formation The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Grandma has to see her cardiologist but you suddenly find you’re not available to take her. She’s willing to drive but even with her glasses, she no longer could pass ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A stem cell transplant that fixes defective muscle in mice could someday become a treatment for muscular dystrophy The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The way snow cracks determines how avalanches start The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Millions of years ago, the American Southwest sat next to East Antarctica The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The failure of the G-8 Summit to put some teeth in greenhouse-gas limits suggests it may be time for a global climate czar. The rest of the article can be read ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Artificial DNA variant could aid medicine, biotechnology and nanotechnology The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Fossils show middle stage of the evolution of flatfish eyes to one side of their head The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Early on, the moon’s interior may have been as wet as Earth’s upper mantle The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Watching gene activity of growing coquí frogs reveals surprising sequence The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A closer look at fossilized feathers suggests pigment may have been preserved The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Desire and dread are separated by just a few millimeters in the brain The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Study finds link to high levels of the protein fetuin-A The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Highly educated people dodge cancer better than high school dropouts The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
This study examined the American College of Radiology's CT colonography guidelines recommending that polyps less than 5mm in size not be reported on CTC by applying them to an endoscopic ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A typical symptom of Parkinson's disease is tremor in patients. A group of scientists, including Professor Peter Tass from Forschungszentrum Jülich have succeeded in demonstrating the mechanisms which cause the ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers at Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario have found clear evidence that increases in the size of the brain ventricles are directly associated with cognitive impairment ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A report on how Australia can best respond to the environmental and economic challenges arising from its dependence on fossil fuels for transport is being released in Melbourne today. The rest ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Research published in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics looks set to add an information-age approach to diagnosing heart problems. The rest of the article ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Because of the demographic changes, there will be a marked increase in strokes in the coming years. In their original article in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, the ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Children between the ages of seven and 12 appear to be naturally inclined to feel empathy for others in pain, according to researchers who used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center found that sexual behavior counseling during drug addiction treatment should be considered an important component among Russian substance-dependent individuals, ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Heart and stroke risks associated with alcohol use differ among Japanese men and women. Women with light alcohol consumption had a small decrease in heart disease death risk; heavy alcohol ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Staff who took part in a specially designed online infection control course -- in addition to receiving on-the-job training -- said their skills improved by a fifth and led ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status. The study findings were published ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Common genetic variations affecting nicotine receptors in the nervous system can significantly increase the chance that European Americans who begin smoking by age 17 will struggle with lifelong nicotine addiction, ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Use of hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of gallbladder disease but the effects are less with HRT given in skin patches or gels compared with HRT given orally, according ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Naturopaths are strongly in favor of regulation of their industry, a University of Queensland researcher has found. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Research involving large Middle Eastern families, sophisticated genetic analysis and groundbreaking neuroscience implicates several new genes in autism. More importantly, the findings support the emerging idea that autism stems from ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists are still searching for the cause of many forms of Leukemia, including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. VIB researchers connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered that the carcinogenic ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
This release contains summaries, links to PDFs and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, July 10, 2008, in the JCI, including: Why men are more ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A 150-meter ice core pulled from the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first quantitative look at up to two centuries of ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Coat color of wild and domestic animals is a critical trait that has significant biological and economic impact. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have identified the ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Malaria is one of the most devastating diseases afflicting humanity. It infects and debilitates about 600 million people, and kills up to three million people every year, mainly in the ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Female soccer players and soccer players who have had a previous concussion recuperate differently from males or players without a history of concussion, new research released today at the 2008 ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Sarcomeres are key microscopic elements of muscle fiber. Examining them typically requires a painful muscle biopsy that does not offer the opportunity to see the sarcomeres at work within ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
RNA, the transporter of genetic information within the cell, has emerged from the shadow of DNA to become one of the hottest research areas of molecular biology, with implications for ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Potentially paving the way for more effective treatments of anxiety disorders, a recent Nature report by Denis Paré, professor at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown. The rest of the article ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
This year, the world has been hit by both food and energy crises. However, few commentators specifically mention the declining availability of water needed to grow crops. Unless we change ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A University of Michigan study in mice suggests the drug SAHA, a new antitumor drug, is also able to reduce the effects of graft-versus-host disease, a common, sometimes fatal complication ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year, but the event will probably not be severe. NOAA issued ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush -- the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices -- was the crucial test of ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Providing preventive treatment for malaria, given once per term, dramatically reduces rates of malaria infection and anemia among schoolchildren, and significantly improves their cognitive ability, according to new research published ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In a study published in Pediatrics, Paul Shattuck, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, found that families with similar demographics and nature of their children's special needs have different ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Once upon a time in the world of science, sharing your work with the press was heresy. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98 percent ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according ... Read more..