Facial attraction -- choice of sexual partner shaped the human face
...women. Unlike other facial features, however, this difference cannot be explained simply in terms of men being bigger than women. In spite of their larger size men have an upper face similar in height to a female face, but much broader. These differences can be found throughout human history. As a result, a sim...Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...tsburgh School of Medicine. We also found that the difference between the inflammatory response in a patient with a good outcome and a patient with a bad outcome is only a matter of degree. The Pitt researchers say that in light of their results, treatments that completely abolish a specific component of the ...Protein 'chatter' linked to cancer activation
...s and as a result promotes cancer formation. A key difference between cancer cells and normal cells is that the former maintain their chromosome ends and have the unlimited potential to grow. Disruption of this communication in cancer cells induces shortening of chromosome ends and may restrict their potential ...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
... same mutations. Ince confirmed this behavioral difference by taking a single human breast tissue sample, splitting it in two and growing the cells in the two culture mediums, which select for different cells. Next, he transformed the two populations with the same tumor-initiating genes, injected them in mic...Evolution is driven by gene regulation
...es, its how you turn them on that accounts for the difference between species at least in yeast according to a...ists is accounting for what causes the substantial difference between the person and the chimp. Conventional wisdom has been that if the difference is not the ......llion for an advanced (Fischer Tropsch) plant. The difference in the final cost of the fuel, however, was less severe, being $1.74 for grain ethanol when corn costs $3.00 per bushel and $1.80 for cellulosic biofuel when biomass costs $50 per ton. The authors compared biochemical and thermochemical approaches ...Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...ted a greater amount of H+ compared to males. This difference persisted throughout the entire ischemic period. T...ccumulation of lactate in newborn female livers, a difference that was sustained throughout the ischemic period. Based on these findings and other consideratio...Weizmann Institute scientists discover a control mechanism for metastasis
... familial similarity, the team found a significant difference between them. The protein that drops off has two arms: One arm attaches to the protein fibers forming the skeleton, and the other anchors itself to the cell membrane. This action is what stabilizes the cells structure. The protein that increases, on ...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
...ors such as bees. It also doesnt hurt to know the difference between a harmless king snake and a venomous coral snake! Richard Louv notes in his book that children growing up over the last 20 years have increasingly limited experience of the outdoors, which is contributing to decreased understanding and appr......ether, where RIF occurred, there was an underlying difference in the nature of the DNA. Indeed there was. By comparison to the random distribution that might have been expected, RIF were more frequent in the low-density regions. And a preponderance of RIF coincided with the interfaces between the two kinds o...Progesterone injections do not prevent preterm birth in twin pregnancies
...ding at 35 weeks. The results showed no meaningful difference between the 17-OHPC and placebo groups. Birth or miscarriage before 35 weeks gestation occurred in 41.5 percent of the 17-OHPC group and in 37.3 percent of the placebo group. The researchers concluded that treatment with 17-OHPC did not reduce the ...US Department of Defense awards $1.6 million for implantable biochip research
...hysicians and medical personnel can often mean the difference between life and death, said Guiseppi-Elie. Our goal is to improve the quality and expediency of care for fallen soldiers and civilian trauma victims. The biochip also may be injected as a precaution to future traumas, he adds. Clemson scientists h...Caffeine and exercise can team up to prevent skin cancer
...percent increase. The most dramatic and obvious difference between the groups came from the caffeine-drinking runners, a difference that can likely be attributed to some kind of synergy, Conney said. The authors suggested several m...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
...early 25 percent of the patients had died. But the difference in death risk was striking: 13.7 percent of the pa...percent of the completely thrombosed patients. The difference held up after other factors were corrected for. In addition to the importance of the false lumen,...Females more prone to brain damage from alcohol abuse
...ll death, than male mice. It also found the gender difference exists whether the animals are prone to severe wit...thdrawal," Wiren said. "I thought there would be a difference between the genders, but I didn't think it would be the most important thing." She added, "The wit...Success rates for prostate cancer depend on experience of surgeon
...ether a surgeons experience makes a large or small difference on their patients outcome. Andrew Vickers, Ph.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and colleagues analyzed data from 72 surgeons at four institutions and 7,765 of their prostate cancer patients treated with radical prostatectom...Scientists discover new way to study nanostructures
..., Josephson predicted that when a constant voltage difference is maintained across two weakly linked superconductors separated by a thin insulating barrier (an arrangement now known as a Josephson junction), an alternating electrical current would flow through the junction (imagine turning on a water faucet and...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
...York, N.Y. Small, incremental steps can make a big difference in improving health outcomes. Dr. Oeffinger and his colleagues compared the physical activity levels of over 2,600 adult survivors of ALL, ages 18 to 44, as reported by patients in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) in 2003, to physical ac...Bird sized airplane to fly like a swift
...ing one wing back further than the other creates a difference in lift on the wings that is used to roll and turn the micro plane in the air. Efficient The team based the project on research performed by its tutor ir. David Lentink, who published a study into the swifts flight characteristics in this years A...Increase in creeping vines signals major shift in southern US forests
... Allen said that he wanted to see if there was any difference in vine density between the old growth and newer f...vine in all of the research plots. The five-fold difference in vine density between the two forests suggests that second-growth forests may be at more risk to t...