Basic Yellow 1, a dye used in neuroscience labs around the world to detect damaged…
Month: March 2011
Alzheimer’s-like brain changes found in cognitively normal elders with amyloid plaques
Researchers using two brain-imaging technologies have found that apparently normal older individuals with brain deposits…
Kidney cancer advance: Genetic pathways could be used to starve cancer cells selectively
Researchers have discovered genetic pathways to starve selectively kidney cancer cells. Two separate studies indicate…
New clinical practice guidelines developed for juvenile idiopathic arthritis
The American College of Rheumatology has developed new guidelines for starting and monitoring treatments for…
Links between asthma, smoking and nicotine dependence explored in new study
New research suggests that being diagnosed with asthma is significantly associated with a greater risk…
Study finds surprising gender differences related to sexual harassment
Sexual harassment may have become so commonplace for women that they have built up resistance…
Allowing people with HIV to be organ donors could save lives of HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure
If the U.S. Congress reversed its ban on allowing people with HIV to be organ…
Protein from bones of 600,000-year-old mammoth extracted successfully
Researchers from the University of York and Manchester have successfully extracted protein from the bones…
Molar power: Milk teeth wanted for stem cell palace art project
Children across Britain are being asked to donate their milk teeth to create “Palaces”, a…
Research into poison curare may lead to medication against tobacco addiction
For the first time, three-dimensional images of protein being paralyzed by the poison curare have…