Cancer Research

Stress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer. Thanks to new r ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2008 - 6:57pm

Study: Even Moderate Doses Of Methadone Can Kill

Methadone is a possible cause of sudden cardiac death even when it isn’t overdosed but is taken at therapeutic levels primarily for relief of chronic pain or drug addiction withdrawal, a new study by Oregon Health & Science University researchers sugge ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2008 - 2:18pm

Scientific American Article On Science 2.0

Mitch Waldrop has written an informative piece on the Science 2.0 movement in Scientific American: Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk? Consistent with the content of the article, Mitch invites feedback: Welcome to a Scientific American experiment i ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - May 15 2010 - 10:07am

What Next Generation DNA Sequencing Means For You

Of all the 'Greatest Scientific Breakthroughs' of 2007 heralded in the pages of various newspapers and magazines this past month, perhaps the most unsung one is the entrance of next-generation DNA sequencing onto the stage of serious research. Pr ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 14 2008 - 3:35pm

Study: Cranberries Cure Everything, Unless You're A Man

Cranberry juice, long dissed as a mere folk remedy for relieving urinary tract infections in women, is finally getting some respect. Thanks to Prof. Itzhak Ofek, a researcher at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, the world now knows th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2008 - 2:17am

Improving Informed Consent Gets An Empirical Boost

New ways to make sure people are adequately informed about the risks and benefits of taking part in a clinical trial can be field-tested for effectiveness as vigorously as new medical treatments themselves, a study led by a Johns Hopkins bioethicist sugges ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2008 - 1:00pm

Gene Mapping European-Americans

Labels such as “European American”, “white”, or “Caucasian” are often viewed as representing a homogeneous category in gene mapping studies and census reports, but each of these labels actually groups together multiple populations, which have diverse origi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2008 - 12:12pm

Research: 10X Life Span In Yeast Achieved Through Genetics And Diet

Normal yeast organisms live about a week but using a combination of dietary and genetic changes, biologists have created baker’s yeast capable of living to 800 (in yeast years) without apparent side effects. Study leader Valter Longo of the University of S ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2008 - 11:35am

Prx1 Gene Regulatory Element From Bat Yields Long Forearms In Mice

Writing in Genes & Development, a research team led by Dr. Richard Behringer at MD Anderson Cancer Center report they they switched the mouse Prx1 gene regulatory element with the Prx1 gene regulatory region from a bat and the resulting transgenic mice ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2008 - 6:02pm

A Genetic Reason For Increased Liver Cancer In Men

A fundamental difference in the way males and females respond to chronic liver disease at the genetic level helps explain why men are more prone to liver cancer, according to MIT researchers. “This is the first genome-wide study that helps explain why ther ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2008 - 5:44pm