CERN is reporting progress towards the goal of starting physics research at the Large Hadron…
Month: January 2008
Protein’s New Role Discovered In Autoimmune Disease
A chemical messenger has been shown to have a previously unknown major role in autoimmune…
Sticky Questions Tackled In Gecko Research
Velcro, Superglue and Post-It Notes … three things that started out as obscure inventions but…
Patients Wonder: ‘Could This Be Something Serious?’ Doctors Who Express Empathy Get Highest Patient Ratings
Nearly 4,800 patient surveys and 100 covertly recorded visits by actors posing as patients revealed…
Software: Serious Games In Virtual Worlds
Serious games are designed not to entertain, but to teach. Students learn by doing, and…
New Drug Candidate Knocks Out Resistant Form Of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Researchers have found a new, experimental drug candidate it to be effective against a highly…
Cancer Cell Line Developed That Is Resistant To New Cancer Therapy
A cancer cell line that is resistant to one of the newest classes of cancer…
New Minimally Invasive Back Surgery Shows Promising Results, Physicians Report
Each year, 40 to 60 percent of American adults suffer from chronic back pain. More…
Fresh Fossil Evidence Of Eye Forerunner Uncovered
Ancient armored fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of…
CJD death ‘is no cause for panic’
A mysterious case of CJD raises the possibility of a new group of people falling…