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Sunshine Hormone, Vitamin D, May Offer Hope for Treating Liver Fibrosis
April 25, 2013 Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. In industrialized countries, the main causes of liver injury ... > full story -
Potential New Way to Detect Colorectal and Other Cancers
April 25, 2013 A unique new study reveals a novel mechanism explaining the previously unknown root cause of some forms of colorectal ... > full story -
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings
April 25, 2013 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only ... > full story -
Scientists Image Nanoparticles in Action
April 25, 2013 Scientists have invented a technique for imaging nanoparticle dynamics with atomic resolution as these dynamics occur in a liquid environment. The results will allow, for the first time, the imaging ... > full story -
Clues to Making Vaccine for Infant Respiratory Illness
April 25, 2013 An atomic-level snapshot of a respiratory syncytial virus protein bound to a human antibody represents a leap toward developing a vaccine for a common -- and sometimes very serious -- childhood ... > full story -
Longer Days Bring 'Winter Blues' -- For Rats, Not Humans
April 25, 2013 Biologists have found that rats experience more anxiety and depression when the days grow longer. More importantly, they discovered that the rat's brain cells adopt a new chemical code when subjected ... > full story -
Missing Link in Parkinson's Disease Found: Discovery Also Has Implications for Heart Failure
April 25, 2013 Researchers have described a missing link in understanding how damage to the body's cellular power plants leads to Parkinson's disease and, perhaps surprisingly, to some forms of heart ... > full story -
Whales Are Able to Learn from Others: Humpbacks Pass on Hunting Tips
April 25, 2013 Humpback whales are able to pass on hunting techniques to each other, just as humans do, new research has ... > full story -
'When in Rome': Monkeys Found to Conform to Social Norms
April 25, 2013 The human tendency to adopt the behavior of others when on their home territory has been found in non-human primates. Researchers observed 'striking' fickleness in male monkeys, when it comes to ... > full story -
Ecology Buys Time for Evolution: Climate Change Disrupts Songbird's Timing Without Impacting Population Size (Yet)
April 25, 2013 Songbird populations can handle far more disrupting climate change than expected. Density-dependent processes are buying them time for their battle. But without (slow) evolutionary rescue it will not ... > full story
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