日期：2011-06-05 People who have had gastric bypass（胃绕道手术） surgery or other bariatric（肥胖症治疗学） weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-05 ASCO Abstract #10504. Contrary to what many oncologists（肿瘤学家） had thought, a tumor suppressor protein known as PTEN does not reduce the effectiveness of the breast cancer drug Herceptin, according to a study by Mayo Clinic and North Central Ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 What links speed, power, and the color red? Hint: it's not a sports car. It's your muscles. A new study, published in the latest issue of the journal Emotion, finds that when humans see red, their reactions become both faster and more forceful. And... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 While it is already known that breast cancer cells create the conditions for their own survival by communicating their needs to the healthy cells that surround them, Australian researchers have identified a new way of turning off that cellular cross... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 A distinctly new type of methicillin（甲氧西林） resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌 ) that is not detected by traditional genetic screening methods has been discovered in patients in Irish hospitals according to research... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 As the World Health Organisation suggests the E. coli outbreak in Germany is a strain never before seen in an outbreak O104:H4 laboratory science conducted at the University of Southampton indicates a role for copper in preventing the spread of such... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 Humans have been building reservoirs（水库） and dams for thousands of years. Over the past few decades, their construction has spiked as our need to harness water critical in flood control, irrigation, recreation, navigation and the creation of hyd... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 Children whose parents get divorced generally don't experience detrimental（有害的，不利的） setbacks in the pre-divorce period, but often fall behind their peersand don't catch upwhen it comes to math and interpersonal social skills after their par... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 Most of us never considered eating the mud pies we made as kids, but for many people all over the world, dining on dirt is nothing out of the ordinary. Now an extensive meta-analysis forthcoming in the June issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 A common reading of the recent subprime mortgage crisis（次贷危机） pins the blame on bankers and loan brokers who extended mortgages to those who could not afford them, thereby inflating a housing bubble that was destined to burst. While technicall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-03 Do those lightening fast disclaimers at the end of radio and television advertisements scare you away or simply seem like white noise required by regulatory agencies? According to Northwestern University and Wake Forest University research now onlin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-02 D model of a volcanic explosion, based on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, may enhance our understanding of how some volcanic explosions occur and help identify of blast zones for potentially dangerous locations, according... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-02 50 C and gale-force winds above 180 km/h during the Antarctic winter, Emperor penguins form tightly packed huddles（拥挤，混乱） and, as has recently been discovered the penguins actually coordinate their movements to give all members of the huddle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-02 Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-02 Although cytomegalovirus（巨细胞病毒） infection is a known cause of birth defects, including permanent hearing loss, most CMV infections in infants are not identified early, when interventions can lessen the effects of hearing loss. Now, Suresh Bop... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-01 In the treeless, flat Prairie, you'd think a city would provide a good home for bats who like to snuggle up（偎依） and roost in trees and buildings. But researchers at the University of Calgary made the surprising discovery that the urban landscape... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-01 In addition to its damaging effect on the environment and its illegal smuggling into developing countries, researchers have now linked e-waste to adverse effects on human health, such as inflammation and oxidative stress（氧化应激） precursors to ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-01 Research from North Carolina State University shows that so-called biodegradable products are likely doing more harm than good in landfills, because they are releasing a powerful greenhouse gas as they break down. Biodegradable materials, such as di... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-01 Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue（登革热） , an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic. A BBSRC-funded team at UCL has published a paper today (12 May) in the... 阅读全文>>