Over the last several months, the labs of Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Erika Holzbaur, PhD, Professor of Physiology, have published a group of papers that, taken together, show proteins that function as molecular motors are surprisingly flexible and agile, able to navigate obstacles within the cell. These observations could lead to better ways to treat motor neuron diseases..More...

In a radical departure from conventional lens-based optics, MIT scientists have developed a sophisticated optical system made of mesh-like webs of light-detecting fibers. The fiber constructs, which have a number of advantages over their lens-based predecessors More...

UF scientists reverse muscle contractions in mouse model of muscular dystrophy

University of Florida scientists have used gene therapy to eliminate disabling muscle contractions in a mouse model of the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy.

The inherited disorder, known as myotonic dystrophy, is found in one of every 8,000 people and causes skeletal muscles to lose the ability to relax once they contract. More...

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that chronic ibuprofen therapy given after brain injury worsens cognitive abilities. These findings - in a preliminary, animal-model study - have important implications for traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients who are often prescribed such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as ibuprofen for chronic pain. The findings appear online this month in Experimental Neurology.

Because several studies in animals and humans have shown that long-term  More...

Sri Lanka Water Supply Still Suffers Effects of 2004 Tsunami

Sri Lanka's coastal drinking water supply continues to suffer the effects of the December 2004 tsunami, which caused major death and destruction in the region. Much of the island nation's coastal area More...

A professor at the University of Houston and his research students are working with physicians and scientists at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) on new technology to help identify which brain aneurysms More...

A University of Houston professor and his student have made a major discovery in the field of diabetes research and diagnosis,More...

Invasive Exotic Plants Helped by Natural Enemies

Much as the famed starship Enterprise would deploy a deflector shield to evade enemy attack, tumor cells are capable of switching on a molecular force field of their own to fend off treatments aimed at killing them. Now University of Florida researchers have found a chink in their armor.

The cells churn out an enzyme that bonds with a protein, creating a protective barrier that deflects damage from radiation or chemotherapy and promotes tumor cell survival. But in laboratory experiments, UF scientistsMore>>

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have revealed that the cortisol/obesity connection, touted by many weight-loss supplement marketers, may be even more tenuous than first thought. The research also highlights the complexities of the body's weight regulation system and is   More>>

A new study suggests that the hormone estrogen works in partnership with other proteins to activate or suppress gene activity in breast cancer cells.

Surprisingly, one of the partner proteins is known as c-MYC, a gene activator that has long been associated with cancer development  More>>

Dutch otolaryngologist Marein van der Torn hoped to develop a prosthesis that would improve the voice of people who had lost their vocal cords. He investigated the possibilities of a new type of voice prosthesis that produces vocal sound. The concept   ... More>>

A team led by researchers at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Western Australia has shown that being extremely overweight or obese increases the likelihood More>>

Adult children in the dark about aging parents

Eye's structure, muscles engineered to help brain manage eye movement

     A psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research that shows two adult siblings may have radically different views on what their parents would want. In fact, he says that a random stranger might have the same chance at  more>> 

Finally, Male Water Fleas Exposed But gender-bending pesticide may have widespread effects

Vanderbilt chemical engineers question safety of certain nanomaterials

Male water fleas that scientists have never seen have made their debut in a University at Buffalo laboratory, providing biologists with their first glimpse of more>>

New CU-Boulder "Flu Chip" May Help Combat Future Epidemics, Pandemics

Children of bipolar parents score higher on creativity test, Stanford study finds

Light exercise a tonic to keep the brain young 

A new computer model indicates Jupiter's massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet's interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report today ... more>>

Gold nanoparticles may offer potential cancer treatment

Vegetables have long indicated signs of being beneficial against certain types of cancer  more>>

The discovery of the gene Klotho, in 1997 by researchers at the University of Texas's Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas could turn out to be a significant breakthrough for anti-aging treatment if the gene has the same effect on humans, as it did on mice in a recent study. In the initial study researchers identified an ineffective gene, which was due to a mutation in the mice indicating premature aging signs; this gene was named after the Greek .more>>

Paralysis which usually results from a stroke or a serious injury often leaves its victims in an immobile state. The main effect of paralysis is the inability  >>more

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago who conducted a study on laboratory mice showed that psychological stress postponed the healing of wounds and hyperbaric oxygen (oxygen at a higher pressure than normal atmospheric pressure) showed no delay.>>more

The processing of sight involves the transmission of light signals which is reflected off an object seen by the eye to the brain. It was widely accepted that smell was processed in a similar way until recent studies conducted by researchers at John Hopkins  >>more

A recent study conducted by scientists at the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health), which is part of the National Institute of Health of the US Federal Government, Compared the amygdala activation in the brain of normal participants with participants having Williams  >>more

The emerging scope of biotechnology

Emotional expressions in the animal world

The significant impact of biotechnology is revolutionizing the scientific world, Biotechnology is playing a key role in industrial, medical, agricultural and industrial fields, and is one of the most researched fields in the world.  >>more

 Animals have long been perceived as having emotions less developed to those of humans,   however research conducted by Dr. Jeffrey Masson  may    >>more

As the rehabilitation phase unfolds, many tsunami victims strive to put the past behind and turn a new leaf, in spite of the psychological scars that are likely   >>more

The response of plant growth to human speech been a common claim by many plant owners and certain botanists, however most botanists attribute it to carbon dioxide.>>more