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Cancer Drugs Block Dementia-Linked Brain Inflammation, Study Finds
Apr. 16, 2014 — A class of drugs developed to treat immune-related conditions and cancer -- including one currently in clinical trials for glioblastoma and other tumors -- eliminates neural inflammation associated ... full story -
How Smells Stick to Your Memories: Your Nose Can Be a Pathfinder
Apr. 16, 2014 — Waves in your brain make smells stick to your memories and inner maps. Researchers have recently discovered the process behind this phenomenon. The brain, it turns out, connects smells to memories ... full story -
Ancient Shark Fossil Reveals New Insights Into Jaw Evolution
Apr. 16, 2014 — The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates -- ... full story -
Searching for Dark Energy With Neutrons: With Neutrons, Scientists Can Now Look for Dark Energy in the Lab
Apr. 16, 2014 — It does not always take a huge accelerator to do particle physics: First results from a low energy, table top alternative takes validity of Newtonian gravity down by five orders of magnitude and ... full story -
Sperm Meets Egg: Protein Essential for Fertilization Discovered
Apr. 16, 2014 — Interacting proteins on the surface of the sperm and the egg have been discovered by researchers. These are essential to begin mammalian life. These proteins, which allow the sperm and egg to ... full story -
Scientists Re-Define What's Healthy in Newest Analysis for Human Microbiome Project
Apr. 16, 2014 — A new look at the Human Microbiome Project shows wide variation in the types of bacteria found in healthy people. Based on their findings, there is no single healthy microbiome. Rather each person ... full story -
HIV+ Women Respond Well to HPV Vaccine, Study Shows
Apr. 16, 2014 — A vaccine can safely help the vast majority of HIV-positive women produce antibodies against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus, even if their immune system is weak and even if they've had ... full story -
DNA Looping Damage Tied to HPV Cancer, Researcher Discovers
Apr. 16, 2014 — Certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) are known to cause about five percent of all cancer cases, yet all the mechanisms aren't completely understood. Now, researchers have leveraged Ohio ... full story -
Trials of the Cherokee Were Reflected in Their Skulls
Apr. 16, 2014 — Researchers have found that environmental stressors -- from the Trail of Tears to the Civil War -- led to significant changes in the shape of skulls in the eastern and western bands of the Cherokee ... full story -
First Metritis Vaccine Protects Dairy Cows
Apr. 16, 2014 — The first vaccines that can prevent metritis, one of the most common cattle diseases, has been developed by researchers. The infection not only harms animals and farmers’ profits, but also drives ... full story -
Local Homicide Rate Increases Cause More Elementary Students to Fail School
Apr. 16, 2014 — A new study finds that an increase in a municipality’s homicide rate causes more elementary school students in that community to fail a grade than would do so if the rate remained stable. ... full story -
Making New Materials an Atomic Layer at a Time
Apr. 16, 2014 — Researchers have shown the ability to grow high quality, single-layer materials one on top of the other using chemical vapor deposition. This highly scalable technique, often used in the ... full story -
Breakthrough Points to New Drugs from Nature
Apr. 16, 2014 — A new technique for discovering natural compounds has been discovered, and could form the basis of novel therapeutic drugs. "This new research technique opens the door to unlimited ... full story -
Irrigated Agriculture: Precious Habitat for the Long-Billed Curlew
Apr. 16, 2014 — Despite the recent rainfall, California is still in a drought, so not only are water supplies limited, but demand for water is increasing from a variety of uses. In a recent study, scientists ... full story -
Using Video Surveillance to Measure Peoples' Hand Washing Habits
Apr. 16, 2014 — Use of video surveillance to better understand essential hygiene behavior has been pioneered by researchers. Still, despite years of global public awareness campaigns, hand washing rates remain low. ... full story -
Ant Colonies Help Evacuees in Disaster Zones
Apr. 16, 2014 — An escape route mapping system based on the behavior of ant colonies could give evacuees a better chance of reaching safe harbor after a natural disaster or terrorist attack by building a map showing ... full story -
Multiple Births Don't Have to Be an Inevitable Result of Fertility Treatments
Apr. 16, 2014 — While fertility treatments have helped many people become parents, they commonly result in multiple births, increasing the risk of prematurity, and leading to lifelong complications. But this ... full story -
How Toddlers Learn Verbs: New Insight
Apr. 16, 2014 — Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular ... full story -
Researchers Propose Network-Based Evaluation Tool to Assess Relief Operations Feasibility
Apr. 16, 2014 — The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that disasters have affected around 2.9 billion people worldwide from 2000-2012- killing more than a million, and damaging around 1.7 ... full story -
Global Scientific Team 'Visualizes' a New Crystallization Process
Apr. 16, 2014 — By combining a synchrotron's bright X-ray beam with high speed X-ray cameras, scientists shot a 'movie' showing how organic molecules form into crystals. This is a first. Their new ... full story
- Cancer drugs block dementia-linked brain inflammation, study finds
- How smells stick to your memories: Your nose can be a pathfinder
- Ancient shark fossil reveals new insights into jaw evolution
- Searching for dark energy with neutrons: With neutrons, scientists can now look for dark energy in the lab
- Sperm meets egg: Protein essential for fertilization discovered
- Scientists re-define what's healthy in newest analysis for human microbiome project
- HIV+ women respond well to HPV vaccine, study shows
- DNA looping damage tied to HPV cancer, researcher discovers
- Trials of the Cherokee were reflected in their skulls
- First metritis vaccine protects dairy cows
- Local homicide rate increases cause more elementary students to fail school
- Making new materials an atomic layer at a time
- Breakthrough points to new drugs from nature
- Irrigated agriculture: precious habitat for the long-billed curlew
- Using video surveillance to measure peoples' hand washing habits
- Ant colonies help evacuees in disaster zones
- Multiple births don't have to be an inevitable result of fertility treatments
- How toddlers learn verbs: New insight
- Researchers propose network-based evaluation tool to assess relief operations feasibility
- Global scientific team 'visualizes' a new crystallization process
- Augmented reality: Bringing history and the future to life
- Progress in understanding immune response in severe schistosomiasis
- Fighting neuroblastomas by blocking DNA replication, repair
- Relieving electric vehicle range anxiety with improved batteries
- Computer software analyzing facial expressions accurately predicts student test performance
- Diverse gene pool critical for tigers' survival, say experts
- Body mass index associated with breast cancer, regardless of body shape
- Scientists achieve first direct observations of excitons in motion
- A small connection with big implications: Wiring up carbon-based electronics
- Gate for bacterial toxins found in cells
- Potential use of Google Glass in surgical settings
- A study in scarlet: Hot newborn stars formed out of the clouds
- Masculine boys, feminine girls more likely to engage in cancer risk behaviors, study finds
- Warm U.S. West, cold East: 4,000-year pattern; Global warming may bring more curvy jet streams during winter
- Rare disease of the inner ear: New insights
- Research reveals what your sleeping position says about your relationship
- Functional brain imaging reliably predicts which vegetative patients have potential to recover consciousness
- Antibiotics improve growth in children in developing countries
- Prolonged, heavy bleeding during menopause is common
- New study outlines 'water world' theory of life's origins
- Repeated self-healing now possible in composite materials
- The human food connection: Authentic Puerto Rican food in Connecticut
- New standards proposed for gauging muscle decline in older adults
- New technique will accelerate genetic characterization of photosynthesis
- Brain anatomy differences between deaf, hearing depend on first language learned
- Mouse model would have predicted toxicity of drug that killed 5 in 1993 clinical trial
- Neuroscientists disprove important idea about brain-eye coordination
- Chrono, the last piece of the circadian clock puzzle?
- Brain changes associated with casual marijuana use in young adults: More 'joints' equal more damage
- Blacks with financial worries have lower health scores
- Thyroid disease risk varies among blacks, Asians, whites
- Mothers with higher BMI have increased risk of stillbirth, infant death
- Long-term predictions for Miami sea level rise could be available relatively soon
- Potent, puzzling and (now less) toxic: Team discovers how antifungal drug works
- Changes in processing, handling could reduce commercial fishing injuries
- Astronomers: 'Tilt-a-worlds' could harbor life
- Pre-diabetes, diabetes nearly double over the past two decades
- SSRI use during pregnancy linked to autism and developmental delays in boys
- Real-time audio of corporal punishment shows kids misbehave within 10 minutes of spanking
- Breaking bad mitochondria: How hepatitis C survives for so long
- Kids' earliest memories might be earlier than they think
- Cultivating happiness often misunderstood
- Lifestyle determines gut microbes: Study with modern hunter-gatherers tells tale of bacteria co-evolution
- Earthquake simulation tops one petaflop mark
- How mothers help children explore right and wrong
- Lens turns any smartphone into a portable microscope
- Biologists develop nanosensors to visualize movements and distribution of plant stress hormone
- Gut capacity limits bird's ability to adapt to rapid climate change
- Wind tunnel tests support improved aerodynamic design of B61-12 bomb
- Tiger beetle's chase highlights mechanical law
- Osteoporosis risk heightened among sleep apnea patients
- Vitamin D deficiency contributes to poor mobility among severely obese people
- Genetic pre-disposition toward exercise, mental development may be linked
- More should be done for female parolees, experts say
- New method of screening children for autism spectrum disorders works at 9 months old
- Targeting cancer with a triple threat: New nanoparticles can deliver three drugs at once
- Rethink education to fuel bioeconomy, says report
- New method isolates immune cells to study how they ward off oral diseases
- Bioarchaeologists link climate instability to human mobility in ancient Sahara
- Key to easy asthma diagnosis is in the blood
- Flaw in 'secure' cloud storage could put privacy at risk
- Researchers help Boston Marathon organizers plan for 2014 race
- Rising demand for herbal medicine can increase cultivation of medicinal trees
- In child custody disputes, LGBT parents face bias in the courts, review finds
- Regenerated esophagus transplanted in rats
- Charitable donation discrepancies: Why are some countries more generous than others?
- When identity marketing backfires: Consumers don't like to be told what they like
- Sibling cooperation in earwig families provides clues to the early evolution of social behavior
- Unexpected protein partnership has implications for cancer treatment
- New insight into SIDS deaths points to lack of oxygen
- Vitamin D deficiency, cognition appear to be linked in older adults
- Predicting bioavailable cadmium levels in soils
- Hair from infants gives clues about life in womb
- Sensitive detection method may help impede illicit nuclear trafficking
- Whooping cough bacterium evolving in Australia, research shows
- Engineers develop new materials for hydrogen storage
- New sensor improves the level of efficiency in detecting ozone
- Mobile robots support airplane manufacturers
- Bizarre parasite may provide cuttlefish clues
- Outgoing behavior makes for happier humans: Across cultures, extroverts have more fun
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