Airborne Mold Spores Increase Kids' Risk For Multiple Allergies (June 14, 2006) -- University of Cincinnati researchers say exposure to a certain group of fungal spores -- abundant in the air that we breathe every day -- can make young children more susceptible to developing ... > full story

Patients With History Of Cancer At Increased Risk For Acquiring And Dying From Sepsis (June 14, 2006) -- Hospitalized patients with a history of cancer are at a ten-fold increased risk of acquiring and subsequently dying from sepsis -- a severe immune response to an infection -- compared to hospitalized ... > full story

Harmful Algal Blooms Monitored From Space (June 14, 2006) -- Chile is currently the world's largest producer of farmed salmon and has a burgeoning mussel culture industry that is supplying a growing world market. However, the country's marine aquaculture ... > full story

Risk For Skin Lesions Increases With Low-dose Exposure To Arsenic In Drinking Water (June 14, 2006) -- Millions of people are exposed to low doses of arsenic through drinking water. In a study of more than 11,000 people in Bangladesh, research conducted by Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health ... > full story

Researchers Decorate Virus Particles, Showing Potential To Enhance MRI Capabilities (June 14, 2006) -- Researchers at New York University have made chemical modifications to nanometer sized virus particles -- a process that has the potential to improve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. ... > full story

Smokers With Heavily Lined Faces Run Five Times The Risk Of Progressive Lung Disease (COPD) (June 14, 2006) -- Middle aged smokers, who are heavily lined with wrinkles, are five times as likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD for short, suggests research published ahead of print in ... > full story

UCSD Researchers Develop 'Smart Petri Dish' (June 14, 2006) -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed what they call a "Smart Petri Dish" that could be used to rapidly screen new drugs for toxic interactions or identify cells in ... > full story

Cholesterol-lowering Drugs May Be Useful In An Influenza Pandemic (June 14, 2006) -- Recent concerns about the possibility of a serious influenza pandemic have spurred many countries to start stockpiling vaccines and antiviral agents. However, an article in the July 15 issue of ... > full story

Compact Tidal Generator Could Reduce The Cost Of Producing Electricity From Flowing Water (June 14, 2006) -- What happens if you run an electric motor backwards? That is exactly what researchers Dr Steve Turnock and Dr Suleiman Abu-Sharkh from the University of Southampton asked themselves after they had ... > full story

UT Southwestern Allergist Offers Coping Strategies For Relief From Summer Allergens (June 14, 2006) -- The good news for allergy sufferers is that springtime mountain cedars and tree pollens have generally subsided. The bad news: It's ... > full story

Microbes Transform 'Safest' PBDEs Into More Harmful Compounds (June 14, 2006) -- Bacteria in the soil can transform the most commonly used flame retardant compound in the United States into more toxic forms that could be harmful to humans, according to a new laboratory study ... > full story

Child Abuse Can Cause Schizophrenia, Conference Told (June 14, 2006) -- University of Manchester researcher Paul Hammersley is to tell two international conferences, in London and Madrid on 14 June 2006, that child abuse can cause schizophrenia. The groundbreaking and ... > full story

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive Three Dimensions In 2-D Images (June 14, 2006) -- New machine learning techniques make it possible for computers to learn how to discern the geometric context of natural scenes, which has been a major roadblock for computer ... > full story

Calorie Restriction May Prevent Alzheimer's Through Promotion Of Longevity Program In The Brain (June 14, 2006) -- A recent study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggests that experimental dietary regimens might calm or even reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The study, which appears in the ... > full story

Triple Threat Polymer Captures And Releases (June 14, 2006) -- A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a remarkable nanostructured material that can repel pests, sweeten the air, and some day might even be used as a timed drug delivery ... > full story

Stem Cells Found In Adult Skin Can Be Transplanted And Function In Mouse Models Of Disease (June 14, 2006) -- -- Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Calgary have found that stem cells derived from adult skin can create neural cell types that can be transplanted into ... > full story

An Adaptive Interface For Controlling The Computer By Thought (June 14, 2006) -- Controlling a computer just by thought is the aim of cerebral interfaces. The engineer from Pamplona, Carmen Vidaurre Arbizu, has designed a totally adaptive interface that improves the performance ... > full story

Drug Banned By Sports May Be Good For Oldies (June 14, 2006) -- A world-first pilot study suggests that anabolic steroids, best known for doping in sports, may in fact help older people recover better after joint replacement ... > full story

Retired Professor Captures A 'Living Fossil' -- Laotian Rock Rat Once Believed To Have Gone Extinct (June 14, 2006) -- The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired ... > full story

Link Between Obesity And Memory? Researchers Examine Hormone That Turns Off Hunger (June 14, 2006) -- Scientists have wondered why obese patients who have diabetes also may have problems with their long-term memory. New Saint Louis University research in this month's Peptides provides a ... > full story

Scientists Find Chlorine May Contribute To Ozone Formation (June 14, 2006) -- Standard methods of predicting air pollution don't take atmospheric chlorine into account, but the chemical could be responsible for 10 percent or more of daily ozone production in local air, ... > full story

Adult Stem Cell Research Targets Damaged Hearts (June 14, 2006) -- A specialist in stem cell biology at the University at Buffalo has received a .98 million grant from National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of bone marrow-derived adult stem ... > full story

Using Device To Give CPR Does Not Improve Survival (June 14, 2006) -- Researchers looking for methods to improve survival from cardiac arrest were surprised by the results of a study comparing manual CPR compressions with those given by an FDA-approved mechanical ... > full story

Four Out Of Five Head Lice Resistant To Common Treatment (June 14, 2006) -- Four out of five head lice are resistant to a common treatment used to eradicate them, finds a study of Welsh schoolchildren, published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. The ... > full story

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