Big Bang Theory Saved (October 27, 2006) -- An apparent discrepancy in the Big Bang theory of the universe's evolution has been reconciled by astrophysicists examining the movement of gases in stars. Professor John Lattanzio from Monash's ... > full story

Three-in-one Virus Killer Prevents Common, Often Fatal Infections (October 27, 2006) -- A novel combination therapy drastically reduces the infection rate of three prevalent viruses -- and risk of death -- in transplant patients with compromised immune systems. Trivirus-specific ... > full story

Weight Gain Of U.S. Drivers Has Increased Nation's Fuel Consumption (October 27, 2006) -- As American waistlines have expanded since 1960, so has their consumption of gasoline, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Virginia Commonwealth University say. ... > full story

Prominent Hypertension Specialists Question Results Of TROPHY Study On Hypertension (October 27, 2006) -- There may be as many as 70 million Americans with prehypertension. If these people can be treated pharmacologically to avoid or delay progression to clinical hypertension, there would be significant ... > full story

Experts Identify Products That Cause Greatest Environmental Damage (October 27, 2006) -- Cutting-edge research identifying the types of products that cause the greatest environmental damage is the focus of a special issue of Yale's Journal of Industrial ... > full story

Insights Into Honey Bee Sex Gene Could Bring Sweet Success In Breeding (October 27, 2006) -- What makes a bee a he or a she? Three years ago, scientists pinpointed a gene called csd that determines gender in honey bees, and now a research team led by University of Michigan evolutionary ... > full story

Good Information? It's Not All About The Brain (October 27, 2006) -- An Indiana University neuroscientist and University of Tokyo roboticist have figured out a way to model the popularly accepted idea that it takes all types of sensory information to help us make ... > full story

Fat Stem Cells Being Studied As Option For Breast Reconstruction (October 27, 2006) -- Breast cancer survivors might one day avoid the prospect of invasive breast reconstruction surgery, opting instead for an approach that would involve using stem cells from their own fat, suggest ... > full story

Honey Bee Chemoreceptors Found For Smell And Taste (October 27, 2006) -- Honey bees have a much better sense of smell than fruit flies or mosquitoes, but a much worse sense of taste, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at ... > full story

Blood Markers Predict Risk For Recurrent Stroke And Mortality (October 27, 2006) -- People who have just suffered their first ischemic stroke, a blood clot in the brain, often have elevated inflammatory biomarkers in their blood that indicate their likelihood of having another ... > full story

'Virtual' Colonoscopy Considerably More Expensive (October 27, 2006) -- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers have found that "virtual" colonoscopy using a computer tomography scanner is considerably more expensive than the traditional procedure due ... > full story

Are Influenza Vaccines Worth The Effort? (October 27, 2006) -- Each year enormous effort goes into producing influenza vaccines and delivering them to appropriate sections of the population. But a review of the evidence in this week's British Medical Journal ... > full story

NASA Satellite Finds The World's Most Intense Thunderstorms (October 27, 2006) -- A summer thunderstorm often provides much-needed rainfall and heat wave relief, but others bring large hail, destructive winds and tornadoes. Now with the help of NASA satellite data, scientists are ... > full story

New Cancer Drug Hope (October 27, 2006) -- Scientists helping to develop the next generation of cancer-beating drugs say they have had a major breakthrough with their latest ... > full story

Out Of Africa: Scientists Uncover History Of Honey Bee (October 27, 2006) -- "Every honey bee alive today had a common ancestor in Africa" is one conclusion drawn by a team of scientists that probed the origin of the species and the movements of introduced populations, ... > full story

New Study Has Important Implications For Flu Surveillance (October 27, 2006) -- Researchers are reporting the results of a study that dramatically alters the existing understanding of how the influenza virus evolves. The findings could have important implications for monitoring ... > full story

Alloy Of Hydrogen And Oxygen Made From Water (October 27, 2006) -- Researchers have used X-rays to dissociate water at high pressure to form a solid mixture -- an alloy -- of molecular oxygen and molecular hydrogen. The work, by a multi-institutional team that ... > full story

Women With Mental Disorders Less Likely To Have Mammograms (October 27, 2006) -- Women with mental disorders are less likely to have screening mammograms than women without mental illness, although the nature of the mental illness does play a role. Prior to this study, little was ... > full story

How Blood Starts Clotting: Microfluidics Technique Could Find Medical-diagnostic Applications (October 27, 2006) -- University of Chicago chemists have demonstrated for the first time how to use a simple laboratory model consisting of only a few chemical reactions to predict when and where blood clotting will ... > full story

Further Evidence That Moderate Drinking Reduces Men's Heart Attack Risk (October 27, 2006) -- Even as studies have consistently found an association between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced heart attack risk in men, an important question has persisted: What if the men who drank in ... > full story

Unique Bra Eases Women's Recovery From Heart Surgery (October 27, 2006) -- A national clinical trial led by a University of Calgary researcher has found that wearing a specialized compression bra significantly reduces women's breast pain following heart surgery. The study, ... > full story

Pioneering Study Looks At P53's Role In Tumor-stroma Interactions (October 27, 2006) -- Researchers have conducted the first comprehensive study of the role an important tumor suppressor gene plays in cancer development. P53 is known as a major tumor suppressor that is frequently ... > full story

Eye Researchers Develop New 3D Monitor Vision Test For Children (October 27, 2006) -- A new random-dot stereotest using a 3D display and infrared oculography has been found to objectively assess stereopsis in children older than three years according to an article published in the ... > full story

Depression Symptoms Less Likely In Kids With Accurate Self-perceptions (October 27, 2006) -- Children who can accurately assess how their classmates feel about them -- even if those feelings are negative -- are less likely to show symptoms of depression, according to Florida State University ... > full story