日期：2010-09-27 Head and neck cancer outcomes associated with race may be more closely linked to social and behavioral factors than biological differences, especially for African Americans, according to a new Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers found that while... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 Identification of a molecular communications pathway that influences the mobilization of hematopoietic（造血的） ( blood) stem cells could lead to targeted therapies for improving bone marrow（骨髓） transplant success rates. In a bed-side to bench... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Oxford, UK, 27 September 2010: Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled movement of a single strand of DNA through a protein nanopore. The paper, by researchers at the Univ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 A better way to pinpoint where volcanic eruptions（火山喷发） are likely to occur has been produced by an international team of geophysicists（地球物理学者） . Scientists from the universities of Leeds, Purdue, Indiana and Addis Ababa, investigated... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-27 Researchers at Stanford University were able to use light to induce（诱导，引诱） normal patterns of muscle contraction, in a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins. The new appr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 The first cultivar（培育植物） of 'ōhelo berry, a popular native Hawaiian fruit, has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their university and industry cooperators. 'helo (Vaccinium reticulatum Smith) is a small, na... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom（幻觉的，幽灵的） limb the vivid illusion that the amputated（截肢） arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar illusions i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 A new study has determined that teenagers who have abortions（堕胎，流产） are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies do not end in abortion. The study conducted by researchers from Oregon State... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 A University of Oklahoma research team has uncovered a key to arresting the growth of thrush（画眉，鹅口疮） a type of oral yeast（酵母） infection that sickens patients with compromised immune systems, diabetes and newborns as well as healthy indiv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-25 Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience stress as something that affects your entire body and mind, the causes of which are plentiful. But if... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-25 Contrary to a thousand face cream（面霜，雪花膏） adverts, the secret of fertility might not be eternal（永恒的，不朽的） youth. Research by the ecologist Dr. Carlos Herrera, a Professor of Research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientfi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-25 Researchers have identified a gene that appears to increase a person's risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common type of the disease. Abbreviated（缩写） MTHFD1L, a gene on chromosome（染色体） six, was identified in a ge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-25 Playing video games for hours on end（连续地） may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic（腹腔镜检查的） surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganisation（重组） of the brain's cortical（皮质的，皮层的） network in young men with signifi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-25 A team led by a North Carolina State University researcher has shown that water-gel-based solar devices artificial leaves can act like solar cells to produce electricity. The findings prove the concept for making solar cells that more closely mimic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 There may be a very good reason that people naturally clutch（抓住，紧握） their hand after receiving an injury. A new report published online on September 23 in Current Biology shows that self-touch offers significant relief for acute pain（剧烈的... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 New research has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis（肺结核） and leprosy（麻风病） is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban living. The research, published in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 A giant rhino（犀牛） with a ridiculously supersized head. Fifteen long, pointed sideways oriented eye horns: one over the nose, one atop each eye, one at the tip of each cheek bone, and ten across the rear margin of the bony frill. A horned face: l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 Computers, light bulbs, and even people generate heatenergy that ends up being wasted. With a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to electricity and vice versa（反之亦然） , you can harness that otherwise wasted energy. Thermoelectric devices... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 The Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) continues to pursue aggressive energy goals established by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, with the design of a system that controls electrical flow for lighting, a highly efficient platform that may... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-24 While birds living in urban areas face more predators（捕食者） than do those in rural areas, that doesn't mean urban birds face more danger from nest robbers. A six-year study conducted in 19 central Ohio forests from 2004 to 2009 found that, as ex... 阅读全文>>