Understanding menopausal symptoms through a simple checklist has serious limitations, particularly within different ethnic groups…
Month: May 2014
How developing neurons sense a chemical cue
New structural images help explain how young neurons make the right connections, showing how a…
Knowledge or entertainment: Which would you pay for?
From firewalls to metered access, news organizations have invented many ways to make readers pay…
Quantum mechanisms of organic devices for alternative solar panels are revealed
Silicon panel-based technology requires a very costly, contaminating manufacturing process, while organic photovoltaic devices have…
Stem cell therapy may help recondition lungs previously rejected for transplant
Stem cells therapy has been used to “recondition” abnormally functioning donor lungs that were deemed…
Significant side effects experienced by BRCA mutation carriers following cancer risk-reducing surgical procedure
The majority of women with cancer causing BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations experience sexual dysfunction, menopausal…
Key protein factor linked to alcoholic fatty liver disease
A causative link between a key cell stress response pathway and alcoholic liver disease has…
Gene expression signature identifies patients at higher risk for cardiovascular death
A gene expression profile associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular death has been identified…
Hero or sissy? Study explores perception of injured athletes
NFL teams shoulder most of the blame for players’ injuries and sports journalists can shift…
X-ray pulses on demand from electron storage rings
Physicists recently devised a new method to pick single X-ray pulses out of the pulse…