Water is familiar to everyone — it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many strange properties that are still poorly understood. Recent work, however, is shedding new light on water’s molecular idiosyncrasies, offering insight into its strange bulk [...]
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Researchers may be able to predict how people will respond to particular drugs by analyzing their urine samples, suggest scientists. Researchers showed that it was possible to predict how different individuals would deal with one drug by looking at the levels of different products of metabolism, known as metabolites, in their urine before they took [...]
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New research has uncovered that the tumor suppressor p53, which made its name as “guardian of the genome,” not only stops cells that could become cancerous in their tracks but also controls somatic cell reprogramming.
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Infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) appears relatively common among patients discharged from the hospital into home health care, according to a new report. In addition, about one-fifth of infected patients may transmit the organism to other people in their households.
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The fuels cell that four Scandinavian industrial companies are developing could supply power to trailers and fork-lift trucks.
When it comes to how they raise their children, mothers today tend to follow the same practices their own mothers did, according to a new study that looked at parenting practices across two generations. Fathers, on the other hand, don’t seem to use their moms as parenting role models, at least for some practices.
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Researchers in 30 laboratories worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information — the biology equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. This visual language should make it easier to exchange complex information, so that biological models are depicted more accurately, consistently and in a more readily understandable way.
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Researchers find that the STAT3 gene regulates the growth of cancer stem cells in the brain cancer Glioblastoma multiforme. This evidence is consistent with the controversial theory that a minority of cells within a tumor — cancer stem cells — are essential for tumor growth.
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A genetic search using patients and mouse models has uncovered an unlikely gene critically involved in Dandy-Walker malformation, a common birth defect which causes mental retardation, motor delays and sometimes autism. This newly discovered function of the gene, which is never expressed in the brain, reveals a previously unknown role of the skull in directing [...]
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Four healthy lifestyle factors — never smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly and following a healthy diet — together appear to be associated with as much as an 80 percent reduction in the risk of developing the most common and deadly chronic diseases, according to a new report.