Science Blog

Sunday th 10th of October 2010

Clinical trials demonstrate effective weight loss strategies for obese and overweight adults - 09:20

Progress toward first commercial repellent for East Coast’s stinker - 09:20

Friday th 8th of October 2010

Improving sonography requires improving sonography school admissions - 13:00

Texas Tech researcher: Bee colony collapse associated with viral, fungal infection - 13:00

Targeted therapy promising for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer - 13:00

Bloodstream infection surveillance inconsistent between institutions, U-M study shows - 13:00

Front-of-package symbols and systems: IOM phase 1 report - 13:00

Autistic children are not good at covering up their lies: Queen’s University study - 13:00

Taking a fresh look - 12:00

Plants kick-start evolutionary drama of Earth’s oxygenation - 12:00

Studying illnesses caused by worms: Scientists are learning how immune cells communicate - 12:00

Neurons cast votes to guide decision-making - 12:00

New report: How will the affordable care act affect 15 million uninsured young adults? - 08:00

Turtle, dugongs ‘at risk under climate change’ - 08:00

Obese workers cost workplace more than insurance, absenteeism - 08:00

Frequent inaccuracies in testosterone testing lead to call for standardization - 08:00

Popular prostate cancer treatment associated with bone decay - 08:00

Thursday th 7th of October 2010

MRI zooms in on microscopic flow - 19:10

Notre Dame researcher helps discover ‘walking’ properties of bacteria - 19:10

Brain changes found in football players thought to be concussion-free - 19:10

Scientists trick bacteria with small molecules - 19:10

Technique allows researchers to examine how materials bond at the atomic level - 19:10

Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom - 19:10

3-way control of fetal heart-cell proliferation could help regenerate cardiac cells - 19:10

Saturn’s icy moon may keep oceans liquid with wobble - 19:10

US invested $139 billion in health research in 2009 - 15:00

MIT researchers develop a better way to see molecules at work in living brain cells - 15:00

Melanoma uses body’s immune system to spread to lungs - 15:00

Brown University chemists simplify biodiesel conversion - 15:00

Thoughts about time inspire people to socialize - 15:00

New tool in the fight against tuberculosis - 15:00

Structure of plastic solar cells impedes their efficiency - 12:00

Election forecasts favor Republican gains in midterm - 12:00

Stem cells shape up to their surroundings - 12:00

Childhood adversity may lead to unhealthy stress response in adult life - 12:00

Water discovered on second asteroid, may be even more common - 12:00

Cheek swab may detect lung cancer - 12:00

You may not be able to say how you feel about your race - 12:00

Queen’s University discovery could impact how the body receives medicine - 12:00

An X-ray for your genes - 12:00

Heart Healthy Diet: Low Fat or Low Carbs? - 12:00

International Menopause Society calls upon medical community to improve the vaginal health of postmenopausal women - 06:50

Americans’ life expectancy continues to fall behind other countries’ - 06:50

Study links large waist size to higher diabetes rates among Americans - 06:50

Poverty grows in suburbs, but social services don’t keep up - 06:50

Study shows faith-based interventions can encourage exercise in older African-American women - 06:50

Half-time gamblers give stock market insight - 06:50

Breast density linked to increased risk of subsequent breast cancer - 06:50

The fight against cancer needs to be an asymmetric warfare; reflections on the death of a friend - 05:20

Wednesday th 6th of October 2010

Keeping blood pressure in check may benefit some African-Americans with kidney disease - 18:00