First Irish genome sequenced
09-07-10 The first entire genome of an Irish individual has been sequenced. The sequence is reported in BioMed Central's open access journal, Genome Biology and provides...

Is hand washing enough to stop the spread of disease?
09-07-10 Not drying your hands thoroughly after washing them, could increase the spread of bacteria and rubbing your hands whilst using a conventional electric hand drye...

Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes
09-07-10 IMAGE: This is Kimmie Ng, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. BOSTON--Patients with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being t...

The rare aging disease, Progeria, linked to aging in the general population
09-07-10 BOSTON, MA (September 7, 2010) – Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), is a rare, fatal genetic disease characterized by an appe...

Researchers at UC Riverside find solution to cell death problem vexing stem cell
09-07-10 IMAGE: Noboru Sato is an assistant professor of biochemistry and a member of the Stem Cell Center at UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Human pluripotent stem ...

Casing the joint
09-07-10 St. Louis, MO – Current research provides a novel model for rheumatoid arthritis research. The related report by LaBranche et al, "Characterization of the KRN...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles find diet-induced obesity acceler
09-07-10 LOS ANGELES (September 7, 2010) – The first study to demonstrate that obesity can directly accelerate the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has...

Developmental problems: Some exist in the genes
08-17-10 Philadelphia, PA, 17 August 2010 - Everyone is special in their own unique way. From a genetic point of view, no two humans are genetically identical. This mean...

Marriage and committed romance reduce stress-related hormone production
08-17-10 Being married has often been associated with improving people's health, but a new study suggests that having that long-term bond also alters hormones in a way t...

Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago
08-17-10 HOUSTON -- (Aug. 17, 2010) -- The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of a...

New mechanisms of tumor resistance to targeted therapy in lung cancer are discov
08-17-10 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- One of the most tantalizing developments in anti-cancer therapy over recent years has been the advent of targeted treatments, which ha...

B vitamins and the aging brain examined
08-17-10 This release is available in Spanish. B vitamins–B-6, B-12 and folate–all nourish the brain. But much remains to be discovered about the relation between thes...

Boston Univ., Veterans Affairs find sports brain trauma may cause disease mimick
08-17-10 (BOSTON) – The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) a...

Emotions help animals to make choices
08-04-10 IMAGE: Happy? Angry? Anxious? How can we measure animal emotions? To understand how animals experience the world and how they should be treated, people need to...

No such thing as a free lunch for Venus flytraps
08-04-10 Charles Darwin described the Venus Flytrap as 'one of the most wonderful plants in the world.' It's also one of the fastest as many an unfortunate insect taking...

Carnivorous mice spread deadly plague in prairie dog towns, Stanford study finds
08-04-10 IMAGE: Stanford University postdoc Dan Salkeld has been studying prairie dogs for years. Prairie dogs, once abundant in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, h...

New tagging technique enhances view of living cells
08-04-10 Scientists hoping to understand how cells work may get a boost from a new technique to tag and image proteins within living mammalian cells. The new technique, ...

Analysis: July was cool this year (compared to the likely future)
08-04-10 IMAGE: This is a postcard from the future for Washington, DC. The 2010 dates are actual; 2050 dates are representative of average projections. Boston sweat thr...

Brain size determines whether fish hunters or slackers
08-04-10 Whether a fish likes to hunt down its food or wait for dinner to arrive is linked to the composition of its brain, a University of Guelph researcher has reveale...

Texas A&M spring graduate contributes to mental retardation research published i
08-04-10 COLLEGE STATION, Aug 3, 2010 — Malfunction of a protein has been linked to a form of mental retardation that affects up to one out of every 500 males, says Nas...

Supply and demand
08-04-10 IMAGE: This electron microscopy image shows mitochondria in a normal cell. Most organisms need iron to survive, but too much iron is toxic, and can cause fatal...

Tips from the American Journal of Pathology
07-28-10 Transforming Growth Factor-βa (TGF-β1) Contributes to Kidney Disease Dr. Wilhelm Kriz and colleagues at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germ...

Current list of MAK and BAT values presented with 61 modifications and new entri
07-28-10 The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Wor...

Nanotechnology for water purification
07-28-10 Nanotechnology refers to a broad range of tools, techniques and applications that simply involve particles on the approximate size scale of a few to hundreds of...

Middle school students co-author research on enzyme for activating promising dis
07-28-10 IMAGE: These computerized images show the innermost structure of a key bacterial enzyme that helps activate certain antibiotics and anti-cancer agents. Grown-u...

Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them
07-28-10 Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mo...

Electronic cigarettes require more suction than conventional brands
07-28-10 IMAGE: This image shows a smoking machine. From left to right: a puffer box, a manometer and a pump. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Stronger suction is required to smok...