University Of Massachusetts Medical School scientists re-imagine how genomes are assembled Using DNA interaction frequency data, UMMS faculty develop quicker, more accurate method for assembling complex genome sequences WORCESTER, MA ...

Drug interactions causing a significant impact on statin use CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study has found that many people who stopped taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were also taking an average of three other drugs that interfered with the normal metabolism of the statins. The ...

NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Alessia make landfall near Darwin Tropical Cyclone made landfall near Darwin, Australia on November 24 as a weak tropical storm as NASA's TRMM satellite passed overhead and measured its rainfall. The final warning on the tropical storm ...

Turning autism upside down: When symptoms are strengths Alternative treatment focuses on controlling the 'fight or flight' response A novel approach to treating children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder could help them navigate their world by teaching ...

Rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to ancient mass extinction MIT researchers find that rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land 252 million years ago Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice may have ...

Broken cellular 'clock' linked to brain damage A new discovery may help explain the surprisingly strong connections between sleep problems and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. Sleep loss increases the risk of Alzheimer's ...

Research: Materialism makes bad events even worse CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In addition to its already well-documented negative direct effects on a person's well-being, materialism also wields an indirect negative effect by making bad events even ...

UCI, Northwestern researchers create compounds that boost antibiotics' effectiveness Inhibitors could form basis of new treatments for such diseases as MRSA, anthrax Irvine, Calif., Nov. 25, 2013 — Inhibitor compounds developed by UC Irvine structural ...

NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Lehar over the Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands received an unwelcome visitor on November 25 in the form of Tropical Cyclone Lehar. NASA's Terra satellite captured a picture of the visitor as it was making its exit from the islands ...

First large-scale PheWAS study using EMRs provides systematic method to discover new disease association VIDEO: Vanderbilt University Medical ...

Alzheimer's and vascular changes in the neck Buffalo, N.Y. – Studies on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia have long focused on what's happening inside the brain. Now an international research team studying Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment ...

Health Affairs Web First articles look at health care across many countries Bethesda, MD – Shanghai's health care reforms as well as the findings of an eleven-country health care survey are published as Web First articles on Health Affairs' web site in November. Shanghai's ...

A new, flying jellyfish-like machine Researchers present simplified method of robotic flight at APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Pittsburgh

Gene-silencing study finds new targets for Parkinson's disease NIH study sheds light on treatment of related disorders Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have used RNA interference (RNAi) technology ...

Decay used to construct quantum information Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the information from decaying. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have flipped ...

Diamond 'flaws' pave way for nanoscale MRI By exploiting flaws in miniscule diamond fragments, researchers say they have achieved enough coherence of the magnetic moment inherent in these defects to harness their potential for precise quantum sensors in a ...

NIST demonstrates how losing information can benefit quantum computing BOULDER, Colo -- Suggesting that quantum computers might benefit from losing some data, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have entangled—linked ...

How living cells solved a needle in a haystack problem to produce electrical signals Filtered from a vast sodium sea, more than 1 million calcium ions per second gush through our cells' pores to generate charges Scientists have figured out how calcium channels – the infinitesimal ...

New genomic study provides a glimpse of how whales could adapt to ocean The latest study was published online in Nature Genetics November 24, 2013, Shenzhen, China - In a paper published in Nature Genetics, researchers from Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Genome Research ...

Scientists prove X-ray laser can solve protein structures from scratch SLAC's linac coherent light source reaches key milestone in decoding biological structures that were out of reach A study shows for the first time that X-ray lasers can ...

X-rays reveal another feature of high-temperature superconductivity Discovery of a giant resonance puts these materials further apart Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which ...

UNL scientists develop novel X-ray device Research quality X-rays could have widespread applications Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 24 – Using a compact but powerful laser, a research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a new way to generate ...

Unusual greenhouse gases may have raised ancient Martian temperature Much like the Grand Canyon, Nanedi Valles snakes across the Martian surface suggesting that liquid water once crossed the landscape, according to a team of researchers who believe that molecular hydrogen ...

Study identifies protein essential for immune recognition, response to viral infection Mice lacking GEF-H1 protein expression unable to mount immune defense against influenza A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-led research team has identified an immune ...

Even if emissions stop, carbon dioxide could warm Earth for centuries Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the carbon dioxide already in Earth's atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, according to Princeton University-led ...