日期：2011-03-14 University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have determined the structure of human HDL cholesterol（胆固醇） and say the finding could help explain how this fat packet protects against cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke. The st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-13 An Australian study to determine the likelihood of school-aged children waking up to their home smoke alarm found that 78% of children slept through a smoke alarm sounding for 30 seconds. The outcomes of the study are published today in the journal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-13 For rodent pups, bonding with mom isn't hard-wired in the womb（子宫） . It develops over the first few weeks of life, which is achieved by their maturing sense of smell, possibly allowing these mammals a survival advantage by learning to identify m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-11 A new study says chimps, gorillas and other primates grow old gracefully much like humans. The findings come from the first-ever multi-species comparison of primate aging patterns reported in the March 11 issue of Science. It was long thought that h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-11 One of the most complex human mysteries involves how and why we became an outlier（异常值） species in terms of biological success. Research findings published in the March 11 edition of the journal Science by an international team of noted anthropo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-11 A new study by scientists from Maryland and Colorado using American kestrels（美洲隼） , a surrogate（代理的） test species for raptorial birds, suggests that they are at greater risk from poisoning from the rodenticide（灭鼠剂） diphacinone than pr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-09 In the thick of（在最激烈的时刻） whale season, researchers from Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shed new light on the wintering grounds of the humpback whale（座头鲸） . The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-09 What do you have when you line up a martial artist（武术家） , acrobatic gymnast, police officer, firefighter, NASCAR driver, and NFL running back? Watson, the IBM super-computer that recently routed humanity's best on Jeopardy might have guessed th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-09 It's all too familiar: researchers announce the discovery of a new drug that eradicates（根除，消灭） disease in animals. Then, a few years later, the drug bombs in human trials. In the latest issue of the journal PLoS Medicine, ethics experts Jonat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-08 Japanese researchers have been immersing（浸泡） iron-based compounds in hot alcoholic beverages such as red wine, sake and shochu（烧酒） to induce superconductivity. Scientists from the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, found that i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-08 Scientists on the Norwich Research Park have sequenced the genome of a novel strain of Clostridium botulinum（肉毒杆菌） , one of the most dangerous pathogens known to man. The strain produces an unusual botulinum neurotoxin（神经毒素） , known as t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-08 Children may be a long-term investment in happiness, says MPIDR demographer Mikko Myrskyl. Together with Rachel Margolis from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, he published the new study in the latest issue of the journal Populati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-08 All our daily activities, from driving to work to solving a crossword puzzle, depend on signals carried along the body's vast network of neurons. Propagation（传播，繁殖） of these signals is, in turn, dependent on myriad（无数的） small molecules w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-07 Microbicides（杀微生物剂） can be used to protect against HIV, and other sexually transmitted diseases, either on their own or with the added protection of a condom. New research published by BioMed Central's open access journal AIDS Research and Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-07 Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified the key immune cell population responsible for regulating the body's immune response. The finding could have wide-ranging repercussions（反响，影响） for the treatment of autoimmune... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-07 Scientists have identified a single mutated gene that causes Hajdu-Cheney syndrome（综合症） , a disorder of the bones causing progressive bone loss and osteoporosis（骨质疏松症） (fragile bones). The study, published in Nature Genetics today, gives... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-06 Optics researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol have developed an iPad application for accurate, easy and intuitive use of optical tweezers（光学镊子） . Optical tweezers, used to manipulate tiny particles through the use of highly f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-06 Using a bone-creating protein to augment（增加） the maxillary sinus（上颌骨窦） could improve dental implant success, according to Georgia Health Sciences University researchers. Dental implants, screws that anchor permanent prosthetic（假体的） te... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-06 Black people who identify more strongly with their racial identity（种族认同） are generally happier, according to a study led by psychology researchers at Michigan State University. The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, appe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-06 Bariatric surgery refers to several different surgical procedures designed to assist weight loss by limiting the amount of food someone eats or the amount they absorb during digestion（消化，领悟） . It has been used for several years to treat obesi... 阅读全文>>