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(Date:1/8/2009)...8, 2009 Dr. Rama Ranganathan, professor of pharma...gnized today as one of the state,s top rising star...ing and Science of Texas (TAMEST). , Dr. Rangana...ith and Peter O,Donnell Awards by the academy at i... director of the Systems Biology Division of the C...

(Date:1/8/2009)... of drought and flood come in rapid succession, th...t on the sequence of those events, according to a ... , The study, which focused on tree species comm...ngs maintained higher growth rates and were less l...flood, rather than vice versa. The findings could ...

(Date:1/8/2009)...onal GIANT (Genetic Investigation of Anthropometri... obesity genes. So far, the scientists have analyz...sociation studies with a total of more than 32,000...es were validated in 14 further studies including ...4R genes already known, it was now possible for si...

(Date:1/7/2009)... The combination of estrogen plus progestin, which... that it may increase their risk of breast cancer,...ording to a report published in the January issue ... , a journal of the American Association for Cance...aken these hormones, the use of estrogen plus prog...

...A new children's book from ASM Press uses the fami... the not-so-familiar world of microbes. The Invisi... colorful presentation and spectacular selection o... and younger, this unique new book will stimulate ...

...COLUMBUS, Ohio -- New evidence in rats suggests th...emory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease.......nd many researchers believe that there is a compel...gression of Alzheimer's, said Gary Wenk, a study c...

...A fossil fish discovered in the West Australian Ki... vertebrate evolution, rewriting a century-old the...sh University PhD students Mr Erich Fitzgerald and...d by Museum Victoria's Head of Science Dr John Lon...

...Using fast digital imaging, scientists from the Ma...otsdam, Germany, together with researchers from Co...ifferent protocols by which one can initiate the f...he subsequent fusion dynamics with a temporal reso...

...eil, M.D., founder of the Non-Surgical Orthopaedic... Joint Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Soc...hat patients who were treated unsuccessfully with ...f with Kadian, a sustained-release morphine sulfat...

...solation of individuals with disease symptoms and ...n in contact with them, are the most effective way...to mathematical modelling by a team of Imperial Co...shed in the latest Proceedings of the National Aca...

...lf harm patients in hospitals in England, finds a ...nd and Wales, more than 140,000 people present to ...the general hospital management of these people is... by researchers from the Universities of Bristol, ...

...method of choice for determining if patients with ...ad into their liver, a new study shows.......The s...iagnosed cancer metastases, however, MRI was bette...atients, said Dushyant Sahani, MD, one of the auth...

...rotects against dental cavities; however, too much...l fluorosis, which is usually characterized by whi...naturally present in well water in various concent...protect against cavities, and is found in beverage...

... countries (UK, USA, Ireland, Germany, Australia, ...vernment to abandon forcefeeding and the use of re...agreed standards in this week's issue of The Lance... prohibits forcefeeding in the Declarations of Tok...

...sociated with smoking, such as cancer, emphysema a... the general public. However, there is new evidenc...y Streptococcus pneumoniae than children without s...ril 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now a...

Researchers in Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health & Science University will begin a Phase I clinical trial using stem cells in infants and children with a rare neurodegenerative disorder