'Nanocantilevers' Yield Surprises Critical For Designing New Detectors (August 29, 2006) -- Researchers at Purdue University have made a discovery about the behavior of tiny structures called nanocantilevers that could be crucial in designing a new class of ultra-small sensors for detecting ... > full story

New Method For Making Potential Cancer Fighter (August 29, 2006) -- With the prospect that rasfonin could lead to a new family of anti-cancer drugs, scientists began searching for a way to make enough rasfonin for tests. Scientists now are reporting development of ... > full story

Researchers Identify Antibiotic Protein That Defends The Intestine Against Microbial Invaders (August 29, 2006) -- Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that is made in the intestinal lining and targets microbial invaders, offering novel insights into how the ... > full story

Mortality Rate Is Twice As High In Patients With Pneumonia Caused By Highly Resistant Bacteria (August 29, 2006) -- Patients suffering from hospital-acquired pneumonia caused by a type of bacteria that is highly resistant to virtually all antibiotics are twice as likely to die as patients infected with other, less ... > full story

Hand-held Instrument To Detect Public Health And Safety Threats (August 29, 2006) -- Researchers are describing development of a shoebox-sized, handheld mass spectrometer capable of detecting minute amounts of chemical compounds in the environment. Among them are the peroxides ... > full story

Levels of Serious Mental Illness in Katrina Survivors Doubled (August 29, 2006) -- According to the most comprehensive survey yet completed of mental health among Hurricane Katrina survivors from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the proportion of people with a serious mental ... > full story

Modified Home Video Game Shows Promise For Stroke Rehabilitation (August 29, 2006) -- Engineers have modified a popular home video game system to assist stroke patients with hand exercises, producing a technology costing less than 0 that may one day rival systems 10 times as ... > full story

HIV Drug Could Be Used To Prevent Cervical Cancer (August 29, 2006) -- Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing a topical treatment against the human papilloma virus (HPV) which is responsible for pre-cancerous and cancerous disease of the cervix as ... > full story

Decrease In Progression Of Prostate Cancer With Plant-based Diet And Stress Reduction (August 29, 2006) -- One out of six American men will develop prostate cancer at some point in their life, and more than a third of them will experience a recurrence after undergoing treatment, putting them at high risk ... > full story

How The Body's T Cells React To Parasitic Diseases (August 29, 2006) -- While scientists understood how T cells worked in certain kinds of diseases, one area has remained murky: disorders caused by protozoan parasites. Now, because of a study just published and led by ... > full story

Quick Diagnosis Of Flu Strains Possible With New Microchip Test (August 29, 2006) -- Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the CDC have developed a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more about the viruses ... > full story

Red Fish, Blue Fish: Distinctive Color Keeps Gene Pools Healthy (August 29, 2006) -- Long-running evolutionary biology research on fish populations by UC Riverside scientist David Reznick has yielded new findings into how fish keep their gene pools healthy. Female fish tend to choose ... > full story

Sunscreens Can Damage Skin, Researchers Find (August 29, 2006) -- Are sunscreens always beneficial, or can they be detrimental to users? A research team led by UC Riverside chemists reports that unless people out in the sun apply sunscreen often, the sunscreen ... > full story

Study Links Lead Exposure To Brain Cancer In Adults (August 29, 2006) -- People who are routinely exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not exposed, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center ... > full story

Rare High-altitude Clouds Found On Mars (August 29, 2006) -- Planetary scientists have discovered the highest clouds above any planetary surface. They found them above Mars using the SPICAM instrument on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. The results are a ... > full story

Preoperative Brain Mapping Alters Tumor Surgery (August 29, 2006) -- By pinpointing the motor and language areas of the brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), surgeons can target brain tumors more effectively while reducing the risk of damaging ... > full story

First Quantum Cryptographic Data Network Demonstrated (August 29, 2006) -- A joint collaboration between Northwestern University and BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has led to the first demonstration of a truly quantum cryptographic data network. By integrating ... > full story

Dogs And Smog Don't Mix: Pets In Homes May Lead To Increased Rates Of Bronchitis In Children (August 29, 2006) -- A new study from USC researchers suggests that having a dog in the home may worsen the response to air pollution of a child with ... > full story

Everything In Its Place: Researchers Identify Brain Cells Used To Categorize Images (August 29, 2006) -- Socks in the sock drawer, shirts in the shirt drawer, the time-honored lessons of helping organize one's clothes learned in youth. But what parts of the brain are used to encode such categories as ... > full story

Toward An Ultra-sensitive Blood Test For Breast Cancer (August 29, 2006) -- An international research group is reporting development and early clinical testing of an ultra-sensitive blood test for breast cancer. Their new immunoassay was 200-1,000 times more sensitive than ... > full story

NASA Assists Search For Woodpecker Thought To Be Extinct (August 29, 2006) -- The ivory-billed woodpecker is thought to be extinct, or so most experts have believed for over half a century. But last month scientists from NASA and the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., ... > full story

Pinning Down A Cancer Threesome (August 29, 2006) -- Studying mice with skin cancer, researchers at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have identified a three-way signaling ... > full story

Researchers Aim To Close 'Green Gap' In LED Technology (August 29, 2006) -- A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received .8 million in federal funding to improve the energy efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). As part of the U.S. ... > full story

First-of-its-kind Italian School Study Finds High Levels Of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (August 29, 2006) -- Most studies of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) have been linked to heavy and/or binge drinking, especially in minority and poor populations. Popular thought ... > full story

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