Acoustic Data May Reveal Hidden Gas, Oil Supplies (September 9, 2006) -- Just as doctors use ultrasound to image unborn babies, MIT researchers listen to the echoing language of rocks to map what's going on tens of thousands of feet below the Earth's surface. Now the ... > full story

Unusual Three-drug Combo Inhibits Growth Of Aggressive Tumors (September 9, 2006) -- An experimental anti-cancer regimen combined a diuretic, a Parkinson's disease medication and a drug ordinarily used to reverse the effect of sedatives. The unusual mixture inhibited the growth of ... > full story

In A Technical Tour De Force, Scientists Take A Global View Of The Epigenome (September 9, 2006) -- A collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California at Los Angeles captured the genome-wide DNA methylation pattern of the plant ... > full story

Malaria Treatment Efficacy Compromised In Certain HIV-positive Patients (September 9, 2006) -- A weakened immune response resulting from HIV infection can lead to trouble when it comes to treating malaria, according to a new study appearing in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious ... > full story

Precision Climate Modeling Forecast By ORNL Researchers (September 9, 2006) -- Climate modeling of tomorrow will feature precision and scale only imagined just a few years ago, say researchers David Erickson and John Drake of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computer Science and ... > full story

Feelings Matter Less To Teenagers, Neuroscientist Says (September 9, 2006) -- Teenagers take less account than adults of people's feelings and, often, even fail to think about their own, according to a UCL neuroscientist. The results, presented at the BA Festival of Science ... > full story

Planet Or Failed Star? One Of Smallest Stellar Companions Seen By Hubble (September 8, 2006) -- Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the ... > full story

Lab Links Gene To Aged Skin Problems, Cancer (September 8, 2006) -- Oregon Health and Science University researchers have uncovered a pathway through which a gene's over-expression causes skin stem cells to switch from creating hair follicles to creating sebaceous ... > full story

Virus May Control Australia's 'River Rabbit' (September 8, 2006) -- CSIRO scientists are investigating a potential new biological control agent that could hold the key to eradicating one of the nation's most invasive aquatic pests -- ... > full story

Fast-freeze Snapshot Yields New Picture Of Nerve-muscle Junction (September 8, 2006) -- A team of neuroscientists report on a new high-pressure flash-freeze technique that allows a more representative imaging of protein placement in and around synaptic neurotransmitter vesicles. The ... > full story

Pediatric Neurosurgeons Recommend Banning Children From ATVs (September 8, 2006) -- Neurosurgeons at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are renewing calls for a ban on use of all-terrain vehicles by children under age 16 after a ... > full story

Sex And The Heart: It's Not What You Think (September 8, 2006) -- A new study finds that when it comes to heart health, men are getting better while women are getting worse. "Women are no longer protected from heart disease risk relative to men," said Eileen ... > full story

Reconstructive Surgeon Aims For Rejection-free Limb Transplantation (September 8, 2006) -- Years ago, the idea of attaching a donor limb onto a patient's body would have been the stuff of science fiction. But to date about two-dozen people around the world have received hand transplants. ... > full story

'Allergy Cells' Can Aggravate Cancer And Psoriasis (September 8, 2006) -- The body's mast cells are mainly associated with allergic reaction in the way they release histamine and other inflammatory substances. However, researchers at Karolinska Institute have now ... > full story

Gold Nanoparticles Prove To Be Hot Stuff (September 8, 2006) -- Gold nanoparticles are highly efficient and sensitive "handles" for biological molecules being manipulated and tracked by lasers, but they also can heat up fast -- by tens of degrees in just a few ... > full story

Drug Could Change The Standard Treatment During Procedures To Clear Blocked Arteries (September 8, 2006) -- Millions of procedures to open up blocked arteries feeding the heart are successfully performed at hospitals across the United States each year. Researchers are working to make what has become a ... > full story

Geography And Geospatial Technology Used To Study Patterns Of Seized Meth Lab (September 8, 2006) -- A Kansas State University geography professor is using geography and geospatial technology to describe the spatial patterns of seized meth labs in an area of Colorado and parts of Kansas, and to ... > full story

Study Finds Healthcare Usage Significantly Altered After September 11 Attacks (September 8, 2006) -- While healthcare usage markedly declined in the 3 weeks immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, healthcare claims then rose above expected levels during the following months. If a ... > full story

Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out' (September 8, 2006) -- New research at Washington University in St. Louis suggests that rather than the standard straight line from chimps to early humans to us with Neandertals off on a side graph, it's equally valid, ... > full story

Genome Code Cracked For Breast And Colon Cancers (September 8, 2006) -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have completed the first draft of the genetic code for breast and colon cancers. Their report, published online in the September 7 issue of Science, ... > full story

Nano-signals Get A Boost From Magnetic Spin Waves (September 8, 2006) -- A team of researchers from NIST, the Seagate Research Center and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have resolved the question of how nanoscale microwave transmitters gain greater signal power than ... > full story

Liver Diagnosis Breakthrough With Mayo Clinic MRI Development (September 8, 2006) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new technique for using magnetic resonance imaging to accurately measure the hardness or elasticity of the liver. First tests show this technology -- called ... > full story

Siberian Lakes Burp 'Time-bomb' Greenhouse Gas (September 8, 2006) -- Frozen bubbles in Siberian lakes are releasing methane, a greenhouse gas, at rates that appear to be "... five times higher than previously estimated" and acting as a positive feedback to climate ... > full story

Need To Pull An All-nighter? Reducing Nitric Oxide Gas In The Brain May Help Us Stay Awake (September 8, 2006) -- People who must ward off sleep -- soldiers, pilots, truckers, students, doctors, parents of newborns -- might someday benefit from drugs that prevent nitric oxide gas from building up in the brain. ... > full story

In Other News ...

... more breaking news at NewsDaily -- updated every 15 minutes