日期：2010-10-29 Elderly patients with kidney failure get kidney transplants more often than they did a decade ago, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology（肾脏学） (CJASN). The results sugge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-29 An investigational DNA methylation（甲基化） test could alter the screening landscape for colorectal cancer（结肠直肠癌） , according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research special conference on Colorectal Cancer: Biology... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-29 An international study led by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has identified genetic variants in women with BRCA2 mutations（突变，变化） that may increase or decrease their risk of developing breast cancer. The study was publi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-29 Scientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal（关键的，中枢的） ancestor of Earth's largest land animals the sauropod（蜥脚类动物） dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively（暂时地） dubbed Yizhousaurus sunae, lived on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 American youth are one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Although Asian Americans begin smoking later in life, they are more likely to smoke regularly and at a higher rate than other ethnic or racial groups, according to the D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 Most babies are delivered head-first, but in about 4% of all deliveries babies are born breech ― with their buttocks（臀部） or feet first. Doctors usually exercise caution and use caesarean sections（剖腹产） (C-sections) as the delivery method of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 Those who are proud to have a piece of amber（湖泊） that holds a little animal trapped in it maybe should not continue to read this. For what can be seen in the millions of years-old tree resin（树脂，松香） is almost always just a paper-thin faade... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 The method used to assess infertility（不毛，贫瘠） in at-home tests might not be the best for identifying which women will have trouble getting pregnant, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene（石墨烯） , opening the door to new graphene-based transistors and nanoelectronics. By exposing a graphene film... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile（青少年） diabetes, is a multifactorial（多因子的） disease of complex etiology（病因学） characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic（胰腺的） beta cells. In addition to genetic suscep... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-27 Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are helping ensure that the smoked salmon（熏鲑鱼） that's always a hit at festive gatherings also is always safe to eat, including among their achievements the development of a first-of-its-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-26 Young children who consume substantial amounts of fluoride（氟化物） through infant formula and other beverages（饮料，酒水） mixed with fluoridated water or by swallowing fluoride toothpaste have an increased chance of developing mild enamel（搪瓷... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-26 Ever wonder why some people breeze along on four hours of sleep when others can barely function? It may be in our genes, according to new research and an accompanying editorial（社论） published in the October 26, 2010, print issue of Neurology, the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-26 A case study（案例研究） published in the 2010 Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education by professors at Washington State University studies the challenges one organization faced in maintaining an urban market garden. The journal is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-26 Heavy smoking in midlife is associated with a 157 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and a 172 percent increased risk of developing vascular dementia（血管性痴呆） , according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Archi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-26 Studies have shown higher survival rates for people with head and neck cancers that test positive for HPV when they are treated with systemic chemotherapy（化学疗法） and radiation therapy. Now a new study suggests outcomes are also better when radi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-21 In a report published in the Oct. 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center say animal and human data suggest gene therapy to the brain may be able to treat patients with ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-21 A research team from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has successfully designed the world's smallest on-chip（芯片上的） low-pass filter which is 1,000 times smaller than existing off-chip filters. A low-pass filter is a circuit that allows lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-21 Recent work by Dr. David Lohman, assistant professor of biology at The City College of New York, suggests the Philippines, considered by biologists to be a biodiversity hotspot, could have more unique species of birds than previously thought. If tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-21 Amid ongoing concern about plastic waste accumulating in municipal（市政的） landfills, and reliance on（依靠，信赖） imported oil to make plastics, scientists are reporting development of a new ultra-light biodegradable foam plastic material made f... 阅读全文>>