Watching With Intent To Repeat Ignites Key Learning Area Of Brain (December 29, 2006) -- Watch and learn. Experience says it works, but how? University of Oregon researchers have seen the light, by imaging the brain, while test subjects watched films of others building objects with ... > full story

New Research Identifies Human Enzyme That Could Be Programmed To Kill Cancer Cells (December 29, 2006) -- A new study conducted by scientists at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) identifies a specific enzyme that can cause the death of cancer cells. Researchers studied the behavior ... > full story

NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Wildfire Threats (December 29, 2006) -- NASA data from earth observation satellites is helping build the capability to determine when and where wildfires may occur by providing details on plant conditions, according to a recent ... > full story

Malaria Poses Additional Risks For First-time Mothers (December 29, 2006) -- Preeclampsia is thought to be more common in parts of the world where there is a serious malaria problem and it has often been speculated that there might be a connection. Malaria is more common in a ... > full story

Research Upsetting Some Notions About Honey Bees (December 29, 2006) -- Genetic research, based on information from the recently released honey bee genome, has toppled some long-held beliefs about the honey bee that colonized Europe and the U.S. According to research ... > full story

Safety Experts Ill-equipped To Handle Nanotechnology In Workplace (December 29, 2006) -- In a new article, "Nanotechnology and Safety," published by Cleanroom Technology, the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Chief Science Advisor Andrew Maynard urges the need for a strategic plan and ... > full story

Sex Ends As Seasons Shift And Kisspeptin Levels Plummet (December 29, 2006) -- A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at ... > full story

Study Shows Risk Of Acute Pancreatitis Low With Statins (December 29, 2006) -- New research reveals that while cholesterol-lowering drugs do increase the risk of painful inflammation of the pancreas, the side effect is relatively rare, according to Sonal Singh, M.D., from Wake ... > full story

Astronomers Discover New Kind Of Black Hole Explosion (December 29, 2006) -- Scientists have discovered what appears to be a new kind of cosmic explosion -- a "hybrid gamma-ray burst" -- which will be the subject of four articles to be published in the journal Nature on 21 ... > full story

New Jump Start For Aging Blood Vessels (December 29, 2006) -- Recent studies show promise for significantly reducing vascular aging by inactivating TNFá, which has been linked to blood vessel dysfunction and cell death. The related report by Csiszar et al., ... > full story

Adenine 'Tails' Make Tailored Anchors For DNA (December 29, 2006) -- Researchers from NIST, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a deceptively simple technique for chemically bonding single strands of DNA to gold. The ... > full story

Dust To Gust: Health Of Brazilian Rainforest Depends On Dust From One Valley In Africa (December 29, 2006) -- More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Brazilian rainforest is supplied by a valley in northern Chad, according to an international research team headed by Dr. Ilan Koren of the ... > full story

Nanoparticle Implant Measures Tumor Growth, Treatment (December 29, 2006) -- A tiny implant now being developed at MIT could one day help doctors rapidly monitor the growth of tumors and the progress of chemotherapy in cancer patients. The implant contains nanoparticles that ... > full story

New Treatment Hope For Systemic Sclerosis (December 29, 2006) -- Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune disorder marked by early skin lesions and the progressive tissue fibrosis. More than skin deep, this thickening and hardening of connective tissue ... > full story

Roadworks On The Motorways Of The Cell (December 29, 2006) -- Microtubules constantly grow and shrink, but during cellular transport they need to be kept stable. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have discovered for the first time that ... > full story

Joining Forces: Scientists Use Peptides And Lipopeptides To Fight Bacteria (December 29, 2006) -- The "resistance movement" founded by bacteria to combat antibiotics may be losing ground. By combining key properties of two different types of weapons used by the innate defense systems of ... > full story

Scientists Map Structure Of DNA-doctoring Protein Complex (December 29, 2006) -- Mobile DNA, which inserts foreign genes into target cells, is a powerful force in the march of evolution and the spread of disease. Working with the lambda virus and E. coli bacteria, Brown ... > full story

Mining Of Ancient Herbal Text Leads To Potential New Anti-bacterial Drug (December 29, 2006) -- A unique Mayo Clinic collaboration has revived the healing wisdom of Pacific Island cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described in a 17th century Dutch herbal text for its ... > full story

How Many Genes Does It Take To Learn? Lessons From Sea Slugs (December 29, 2006) -- At any given time within just a single brain cell of sea slug known as Aplysia, more than 10,000 genes are active, according to scientists writing in Cell. Researchers also analyzed 146 human genes ... > full story

Researchers Identify New Drug Targets For Cancer (December 29, 2006) -- Solving a 100-year-old genetic puzzle, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have determined that the same genetic mechanism that drives tumor growth can also act as a tumor suppressor. Their ... > full story

How Blood Flow Dictates Gene Expression: Implications For Treating Atherosclerosis (December 29, 2006) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have pinpointed a key regulatory protein that translates blood flow into gene expression. The investigators showed that in a model of ... > full story

Methamphetamine Use Increases Risks Of Artery Tears And Stroke (December 29, 2006) -- Methamphetamine use may be associated with increased risks of major neck artery tears and stroke, according to an article published in the December 26, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific ... > full story

New Madrid Seismic Zone May Be Cold And Dying, New Evidence Shows (December 29, 2006) -- New results about the temperatures of rock deep below the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States shed light on the puzzling questions of why large earthquakes happened there in 1811 and ... > full story

Complexity Constrains Evolution Of Human Brain Genes (December 29, 2006) -- Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, ... > full story

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