日期：2010-10-04 Nearly all (98 percent) of 11- to 13-year-old babysitters（临时保姆） know who to contact in the event of（发生） an intruder（侵入者，干扰者） or if a child is sick or injured (96 percent) or poisoned (85 percent), according to research presented S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-04 Lack of private health insurance and its consequent（随之发生的） lack of access to care appears to affect mortality among patients with uterine（子宫的 ） cancer and may partly explain the mortality disparity（不同，不一致） between African-America... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-04 Studies have shown a high rate of depression among elderly homebound（回家的） individuals, and few patients receive adequate treatment, if any（若有的话） . To address this issue, researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and other organizations have de... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-29 Conductive polymers（聚合物，高分子） are plastic materials with high electrical conductivity that promise to revolutionize a wide range of products including TV displays, solar cells, and biomedical sensors. A team of McGill University researchers... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-29 Using a novel aptamer（适体，适配子） -based proteomics（蛋白质组） array technology, researchers and collaborators have identified biomarkers and protein signatures that are hallmarks of cancer at an early stage for two of the most aggressive and d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-29 Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington have uncovered virus fragments（碎片，片段） from the same family of the modern Hepatitis B（乙型肝炎） virus locked inside the genomes of songbirds（黄莺） such as the modern-day zebra finch（斑... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-29 Met may be a promising personalized treatment method for approximately 45 percent of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC肝细胞癌 ) who have c-Met-positive tumors, according to study results presented at the Fourth AACR International Confere... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 While the U.S. has made great progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis（肺结核） , the nation has become more susceptible to potential epidemics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according a study led by Johns Hopkins res... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 Each time we perform a simple task, like pushing an elevator button or reaching for a cup of coffee, the brain races to decide whether the left or right hand will do the job. But the left hand is more likely to win if a certain region of the brain r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 Baby boomers appear to be driving a dramatic rise in suicide rates among middle-aged people, a new study finds. The suicide rate for middle-aged people a group considered relatively protected from suicide and with historically stable suicide rates t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 A team led by engineers and physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum（量子论） computer using silicon: a single electron reader. Their work wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 Genetic ancestry has no discernible（可辨别的） influence on how African American patients with asthma respond to medication, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers found that improved lung function in patients after taking inhaled（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 Electric cars hold greater promise for reducing emissions and lowering U.S. oil imports than a national renewable portfolio（公文包，文件夹） standard, according to research conducted by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. This asse... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 Children who practice healthy lifestyle habits such as eating fruits and vegetables and engaging in physical activity may be negatively impacting their health because they tend to consume large amounts of flavored and sports beverages（饮料） contai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 Rice University physicist Dmitri Lapotko has demonstrated that plasmonic nanobubbles, generated around gold nanoparticles with a laser pulse, can detect and destroy cancer cells in vivo（在活体内） by creating tiny, shiny vapor（蒸汽，烟雾） bubbles... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-28 The Panoramic（全景的） Survey Telescope Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) PS1 telescope has discovered an asteroid（小行星） that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October. The object is about 150 feet in diameter and was discovered... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 Development of an effective vaccine for malaria（疟疾，瘴气） is a step closer following identification of a key pathway used by the malaria parasite（寄生虫） to infect human cells. The discovery, by researchers at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 A new study looking at how hospitals account for the number of pediatric（小儿科的） patients who develop catheter（导管） -associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSIs) found substantial inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of pat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 As the shipping industry's emissions（排放物） are predicted to continue to grow in the future, the UK will fail to meet its commitment to avoid dangerous climate change if additional cuts are not made to other sectors. According to a University of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 Biometric（生物计量的） systems -- designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or face recognition -- are inherently fallible（不可靠的） , says a new report b... 阅读全文>>