Scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have figured out a key step in how "free" calcium — the kind not contained in bones — is managed in the body, a finding that could aid in the development of ...

TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto report based on two neural imaging studies that monitored brain activity has found individuals are more satisfied to get a reward from telling the truth rather ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 23-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: Diana Lutz dlutz@wustl.edu 314-935-5272 Washington University in St. Louis Happy 10th anniversary Opportunity! Whirlwind tour of the past 10 years of adventures and discoveries by mission scientist Ray Arvidson VIDEO: Ray Arvidson, deputy ...

Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also experience depression. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found that during PTSD treatments, ...

BOSTON (01/23/14)—A young athlete in seemingly excellent health dies suddenly from a previously ...

Baltimore, MD—Exposure to environmental endocrine disrupters, such as bisphenol A, which mimic estrogen, is associated with adverse health effects. Bisphenol A is commonly found in plastic bottles ...

In laboratory experiments conducted on human cell lines at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, scientists have shown that people carrying certain mutations in two hereditary ...

BOSTON – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have developed a mathematical model to predict how a patient's tumor is likely to behave and which of several possible treatments is most likely to be ...

Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice. The stem cells, derived from human ...

(Lebanon, NH 1/22/14) — A scientific breakthrough may give the field of radiation oncology new tools ...

A team of scientists, led by principal investigator David D. Schlaepfer, PhD, a professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has found that a protein ...

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New York, NY, January 23, 2014 – A new study published in the Journal ...

BOSTON (Jan. 24, 2014) — Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, ...

NEW YORK, NY (January 22, 2014) — Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have ...

NEW YORK (January 22, 2014) -- Use of a twice-daily pill could turn a deadly blood cancer into a highly treatable disease, ...

Obese mothers are more likely to have children with metabolic disorders such as diabetes compared with thin mothers, but the underlying molecular and cellular reasons for this effect have been unclear. A study ...

Cancer isn't a singular disease, even when talking about one tumor. A tumor consists of a varied mix of cells whose complicated arrangement changes all the time, especially and most vexingly as doctors and patients ...

The offspring of obese mothers consuming a high-fat diet during pregnancy are at a higher risk than the children of thin mothers for lifelong obesity, and related metabolic disorders. ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 23-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: A'ndrea Elyse Messer aem1@psu.edu 814-865-9481 Penn State Experiments show hypothesis of microtubule steering accurate VIDEO: This is a movie of a polymerizing microtubule (originating in bottom left corner) encountering a static microtubule ...

Baltimore, MD— As all school-children learn, cells divide using a process called mitosis, which consists of a number of phases during which duplicate copies of the cell's DNA-containing chromosomes are pulled apart and separated into two distinct ...

UK researchers have identified a biological mechanism that could explain how the Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate were stabilised over the past 24 million years. When CO2 levels became ...

Setting the stage for possible advances in pain treatment, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland ...

The elusive trigger that allows plants to 'see' the gas nitric oxide (NO), an important signalling molecule, has been tracked down by scientists at The University of Nottingham. It is the first ...

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