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Medicine28 Jan 2014

Promising class of antibiotics discovered for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Jan-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Summer Freeman summer.freeman@stjude.org 901-595-3061 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Promising class of antibiotics discovered for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has produced new versions of an old antibiotic that are active against difficult-to-treat tuberculosis; ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

Study casts doubt on theory that retired NFL players suffer CTE

MAYWOOD, Il. – The media have widely reported that a debilitating neurological condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a well-established ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

Bluebirds struggle to find happiness on island paradise

Island plants and animals are often different from their mainland relatives. In general, the lack of top predators and large herbivores on isolated oceanic islands influences traits ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

Johns Hopkins study: Traumatic spinal cord injuries on the rise in US

The number of serious traumatic spinal cord injuries is on the rise in the United States, and ...

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Medicine28 Jan 2014

DNA-built nanostructures safely target, image cancer tumors

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling "building blocks" of gold nanoparticles as the vehicle to deliver cancer medications or cancer-identifying markers ...

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Medicine28 Jan 2014

Persistent HIV replication associated with lower drug concentrations in lymphatic tissues

Drugs used to treat HIV penetrate poorly into lymphatic tissues where most HIV replication takes place and there is persistent low-level virus replication ...

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Environment28 Jan 2014

River of hydrogen flowing through space seen with Green Bank Telescope

Using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen ...

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Physics28 Jan 2014

ORNL study advances quest for better superconducting materials

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 27, 2014 – Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

GSA Bulletin covers the US, Italy, Iran, Jamaica, Chile, and Argentina, and China

Boulder, Colo., USA – Learn more about river morphology in Oregon; coastal responses to sea level; the Tertiary Sabzevar Range, Iran; carbon-dioxide ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

Geoscience Currents No. 83: The Challenges of Comparing Data on Minorities in the Geosciences

Much of the national data related to the geosciences in higher education come from federal datasets through the National Science Foundation and the Department of ...

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Medicine28 Jan 2014

Critical protein discovered for healthy cell growth in mammals

A team of researchers from Penn State University and the University of California has discovered a protein that is required for the growth of tiny, but critical, hair-like structures called cilia on cell ...

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Social Science28 Jan 2014

Boston University study examines the development of children's prelife reasoning

Most people, regardless of race, religion or culture, believe they are immortal. That is, people ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

Gossip and ostracism may have hidden group benefits

Conventional wisdom holds that gossip and social exclusion are always malicious, undermining trust and morale in groups. But sharing this kind of "reputational information" could have ...

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Science28 Jan 2014

OU study in Oklahoma panhandle finds additional active process producing nanodiamonds

In a University of Oklahoma-led study, researchers discovered an additional active process, not excluding an extraterrestrial event, that may have led to high concentrations of nanodiamonds in Younger ...

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Environment28 Jan 2014

Asian ozone pollution in Hawaii is tied to climate variability

Air pollution from Asia has been rising for several decades but Hawaii had seemed to escape the ozone pollution that drifts east with the springtime winds. Now a team of researchers has found that shifts ...

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Social Science28 Jan 2014

University of Montreal study analyzes content of nightmares and bad dreams

This news release is available in French. MONTREAL, January 28, 2014 - According to a new study by researchers at the ...

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Technology27 Jan 2014

NASA spacecraft take aim at nearby supernova

An exceptionally close stellar explosion discovered on Jan. 21 has become the focus of observatories around and above the globe, including several NASA spacecraft. The blast, designated SN 2014J, occurred ...

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Medicine27 Jan 2014

Biases in animal studies may differ from those in clinical trials, UCSF study finds

A new analysis of animal studies on cholesterol-lowering statins by UC San Francisco researchers found that non-industry studies had results that favored the ...

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Medicine27 Jan 2014

Immune system drives pregnancy complications after fetal surgery in mice

As a fetal surgeon at UC San Francisco, Tippi MacKenzie, MD, has long known that ...

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Medicine27 Jan 2014

Temple surgeon working to bring new stent for aortic aneurysms to patients in the US

Temple University Hospital (TUH) could be among the first U.S.-based hospitals to test a new device known as a multilayer stent in patients suffering from aortic ...

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Environment27 Jan 2014

Picture of how our climate is affected by greenhouse gases is a 'cloudy' one

Jerusalem, Jan. 26, 2014 – The warming effect of human-induced greenhouse gases is a given, but to what extent ...

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Science27 Jan 2014

Getting a charge from changes in humidity

BOSTON — A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores ...

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Science27 Jan 2014

JCI early table of contents for Jan. 27, 2014

Inhibition of kidney glucose transport improves hyperglycemia but increases glucose production Treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) with the drug metformin greatly reduces diabetic complications ...

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Medicine27 Jan 2014

A trigger for muscular diseases

Various muscular diseases are associated with changes in the elasticity of the protein titin, but whether these changes are a cause or an effect of disease has been unclear. A study in The Journal of General Physiology helps ...

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Medicine27 Jan 2014

Unexpected player in regulation of blood cholesterol levels

Kinesins are motor proteins that "walk" along microtubules and transport various cargoes throughout the cell. A study in The Journal of Cell Biology uncovers an unexpected role for one kinesin in ...

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