Researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzyme winds up on ends of chromosomes July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Human cancer cells divide and conquer. Unless physicians can control that division with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, the wildly dividing cells will eventually destroy a person's life. | |
Control switches found for immune cells that fight cancer, viral infection July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Medical science may be a significant step closer to climbing into the driver's seat of an important class of immune cells, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report in Nature Immunology. | |
Scientists learn how food affects the brain July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders. | |
Scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Described in the July 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, the research reveals the shape of the Ebola virus spike protein, which is necessary for viral entry into human cells, bound to an immune system antibody acting ... | |
Novel approach may protect against heart attack injury July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have manipulated cell activity that occurs during the interruption of blood flow to strongly protect heart tissue in animal studies. The finding has the potential to ... | |
Why musicians make us weep and computers don't July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. | |
Protein on 'speed' linked to ADHD July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A genetic change in the dopamine transporter – one of the brain's dopamine-handling proteins – makes it behave as if amphetamine is present and "run backward," Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators report this ... | |
Researchers say popular fish contains potentially dangerous fatty acid combination July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake ... | |
Brain activity encodes reward magnitude and delay during choice July 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Good things may come to those who wait, but research has proven that humans and animals actually prefer an immediate rather than a delayed reward. Now, a study published by Cell Press in the July 10 issue of the journal Neuron ... | |
Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's? July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The humble tomato could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from ... | |
Researchers uncover benefits of aspirin for treating osteoporosis July 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry have uncovered the health benefits of aspirin in the fight against osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans, 68 percent of whom are women, suffer ... | |
Herbal remedy reduces obesity and heart disease? July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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With unprecedented levels of obesity across the Western world, and incidence of associated heart disease, cancer and diabetes rising, there is a major drive to find new treatments. Scientists from Germany have recently discovered ... | |
Fruit fly gene study could yield new flu treatments July 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Scientists may be able to stave off influenza infection by targeting one of more than 100 proteins inside host cells on which the virus depends. These potential drug targets are the result of a study in which researchers ... | |
Thin line between desire and dread: Dopamine controls both July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The chemical dopamine induces both desire and dread in adjacent regions of the brain, according to new research at the University of Michigan. | |
Surrogate children are psychologically well: study July 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Children born to a surrogate mother or conceived through donated sperm or a donated egg do just as well psychologically as counterparts who are naturally conceived, a study unveiled on Sunday said. | |
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