Cancer researchers have discovered a biomarker in breast cancer that may help identify which women…
Month: May 2011
Risk of wetland habitat loss in southern United States predicted
Scientists have developed a model that predicts the risk of wetland habitat loss based on…
Language learning: Video games used to crack the speech code
When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from…
Rainbows without pigments offer new defense against fraud
Scientists have developed pigment-free, intensely colored polymer materials, which could provide new, anti-counterfeit devices on…
Preventing blindness from age-related macular degeneration: Improved form of vitamin A may help
Slowing down the aggregation or “clumping” of vitamin A in the eye may help prevent…
Dairy consumption does not elevate heart-attack risk, study suggests
Analysis of dairy intake and heart attack risk found no statistically significant relation in thousands…
Maternal smoking causes changes in fetal DNA, study finds
Children whose mothers or grandmothers smoked during pregnancy are at increased risk of asthma in…
Octopuses make some pretty good moves
In case you thought that octopuses were smart only in guessing the outcome of soccer…
Occupational lung diseases in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Researchers have described a new respiratory disease in soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Half of prostate cancers could potentially benefit from new type of cancer drugs
About half of prostate cancers have a genetic anomaly that appears to make tumor cells…