USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...ors who, beginning in the Song dynasty (960-1279), centuries beforeGutenberg, published their clinical wisdom in printed books. More than 8,000 medical titles from the period studied in Furth's new booksurvive, virtually none of them translated. In many cases, she was the firstAmerican scholar ever to read the...The effects of St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
...(St.John's Wort) is a plant that has been used for centuries as amedicinal herb. Experimental studies show that hypericum has antidepressantproperties in animal models of depression. Furthermore the mechanism by whichthis antidepressant effect is exerted has been shown to be similar to manystandard antidepress...Mini-motor models nature, advances miniaturization technology
...f steam engines by Newcomen and Watt upwards oftwo centuries ago. Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman once posted a$1,000 prize for constructing an operating electric motor only 1/64 inch cube. The award was collected within the year." The quest for an atomic-level understanding of molecular motors has b...Rutgers researchers developing technology to help New Jersey farmers "grow" pharmaceuticals
...g methods used to collect them haven't changed for centuries -- essentially gathering them from plants in the wild or from cultivated fields and then grinding them up to extract their curative powers, Raskin says. However, with the new technology, the researchers have been able to turn plants into "ph...Crystallographers meet in Los Angeles
...entify and authenticate artwork from the 16th-20th centuries Session which includes a paper on high resolution studies of cocoa crystals leading to a new way to make better quality chocolate confections Symposium on diffraction (the phenomenon that makes crystallography possible) celebrating the centennial an...Scientific society recognizes womens contributions to the Manhattan Project
...nce in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries and in recognizing its applications will be presented. Women continued as leaders in the discovery of radioactive elements, artificial radioactivity, nuclear fission, development of nuclear theory, and made significant contributions to the Manhattan ...American Chemical Society to honor Albert Szent-Gyrgyi
... Scientists, doctors, and sailors knew for several centuries that eating citrus fruit helped prevent the seriou...y deficiency. But it would take almost another two centuries before researchers could pinpoint the substance responsible for preventing scurvy, which was vitamin...Chemists show proteins behave differently inside cells than they do in water solutions
...anation of our observation has been around for two centuries since the time of Le Chatelier," he said. "In the past, however, it has been so difficult to do these experiments that few have even tried." With the new information pouring in from the Human Genome Project and other efforts to identify genes, scien...UC Berkeley study indicates promise of Chinese herbal medicine in treatment of chronic hepatitis B
...s. These particular mixtures are a distillation of centuries of clinical use." The investigators also showed that the quality of the studies left much room for improvement. Many of the studies had incomplete information on how patients were randomized, and "blinding" of patients and doctors to the type of trea...Laser measurements reveal biological basis of distance perception
...t of perception," said Purves. "So, a question for centuries has been, 'What is the biological reason we see space in the peculiar way that we do?'" In their past research on the perception of the geometry, color, brightness and motion, Purves and his colleagues have accumulated evidence that visual processin......The bottom line is that collagen has been used for centuries as something to repair wounds because it is a natural component of the tissue." But collagen treatments alone "don't bind the wound," Miller said. Miller and the other researchers developed a matrix or mixture of collagen and other ingredients, a...Sage improves memory, study shows
...s". People were known to take sage for memory loss centuries ago and drank teas and tinctures containing extrac...houldn't just be ignored because they were writing centuries ago. She added that people who were taking exams should not get too excited by the findings: "Test w...President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of Science
...ese amazing people represent overall close to four centuries worth of experience in research, teaching and leadership inside their fields and extending across many other disciplines as well." NSF, an independent federal agency that funds and supports fundamental scientific research at the nation's universi...Gardens have the potential to improve health, research shows
...e is beneficial for people with illness dates back centuries and is consistent across cultures, Ulrich notes. There are several theories, he says, that attempt to explain people's affinity for nature. Learning theories hypothesize that people associate relaxation with nature, for example during vacations. The...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...e shaped by theislands' changing nature. Then, two centuries ago, Europeansfound the islands. Now Kirch and a team of archaeologists,ecologists, soil scientists, demographers and paleobotanists areattempting to discern the dynamics of the Polynesians'interactions with the environment, pre-European contact, byf...Combination of toxin and poison may be novel treatment for leukemia
...gs of the National Academy of Sciences. Used for centuries for a variety of medicinal purposes, arsenic was first used as therapy for cancer in post-revolution China and is known to be effective against treatment-resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow characterize...... are somewhat surprising since, according to three centuries of birth records in this region of Holland, the highest rate of conceptions, and presumably heterosexual activity, occurs during the spring. As an alternate explanation for the increased incidence of HPV infections seen during the summ...Institute of Medicine Advisory: April 1 public briefing on safety of dietary supplements
... of a supplement, even if it has been consumed for centuries or used in folk medicine, the committee determined. And because changes in how an ingredient is formulated or processed raise the potential for new adverse effects, a reformulated ingredient should be subject to the same regulatory oversight as a ne...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
...m that has puzzled archaeologists and scholars for centuries by locating the site of the Second Temple in the Old City of Jerusalem. Asher Kaufman, emeritus professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, believes that the temple, which was at the centre of worship and national identity in ancient ...Space sentinels track desertification on Mediterranean shores
... to bind the soil together, topsoil that has taken centuries to accumulate is blown or washed away, further reducing the biological productivity of the land until finally it becomes useless. The Worldwatch Institute estimates the Earth's landmasses lose up to 24 thousand million tonnes of topsoil annually. "I...