Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified distinctive brain patterns associated with different stages of general anesthesia. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/mio...

Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense cold and low pressure to form that the right conditions rarely, if ever, occur naturally on Earth. Fuente :...

Back in 2010, the ideas behind a squid's sticky tendrils and Spiderman's super-strong webbing were combined to create a prototype for the first remote device able to stop vehicles in their tracks. It worked, but that technology just got better. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/udo...

Studied for decades for their essential role in making proteins within cells, several amino acids known as tRNA synthetases were recently found to have an unexpected -- and critical -- additional role in cancer metastasis. University of Vermont researchers determined that threonyl tRNA synthetase leads a "double life,"...

Studies finding grandmother's smoking habit may cause grandchild to have asthma suggest environmental factors experienced today can affect families' health for generations to come. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/lab...

An important predictor of the severity of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants may be what their mothers ate during pregnancy, according to a Vanderbilt study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/vum...

An international team of researchers, including an investigator with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, has produced what may be the most comprehensive computer model of human metabolism yet developed. It may be useful for finding biomarkers of metabolic diseases, such as glycogen storage disorder, as well...

Do cats purrr-ferrr sardines or sweets? The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, today released a new Bytesize Science video that explains why cats, unlike humans and other mammals, are indifferent to sweet flavors. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/acs...

A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services examines the potential impact of sequestration on community health centers. "Assessing the Potential Impact of Sequestration on Community Health Centers,...

The National Commission on Physician Payment Reform issued a report today detailing a series of sweeping recommendations aimed at reining in health spending and improving quality of care by fundamentally changing the way doctors are paid. The Commission, chaired by former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation president Steven A....

The gene most strongly linked to obesity and over eating may also increase the risk of malignant melanoma -- the most deadly skin cancer, according to Cancer Research UK scientists at the University of Leeds. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uol...

Case Western Reserve University's Colin McLarty has shown Fermat's Last Theorem can be proved using only a small portion of Grothendieck's work. Specifically, the theorem can be justified using "finite order arithmetic." Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/cwr...

For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about these relationships was the plants' morphology--traits that could be observed, measured, counted, categorized, and described...

A new long-term study of honey bee health has found that a little-understood disease study authors are calling "idiopathic brood disease syndrome," which kills off bee larvae, is the largest risk factor for predicting the death of a bee colony. Fuente :...

Researchers used electronic health records to identify Group Health patients who weren't screened regularly for cancer of the colon and rectum -- and to encourage them to be screened. This centralized, automated approach doubled these patients' rates of on-time screening -- and saved health costs...

Long-term Boston Children's and Mayo Clinic study followed children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into adulthood, shows ADHD often remains. Kids with ADHD more likely to have other psychiatric disorders as adults, commit suicide and do jail time. Authors call for continued...

According to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, an astonishing 60 percent of those allergic to fire ant stings don't adhere to immunotherapy (allergy shots) guidelines. When the course of treatment is properly followed, allergy shots can be life-saving and both modify and...

A small study from Johns Hopkins adds to the growing body of evidence that red blood cells stored longer than three weeks begin to lose the capacity to deliver oxygen-rich cells where they may be most needed. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/jhm...

Researchers have described the first documented case of a child being cured of HIV. The case involves a two-year-old child in Mississippi diagnosed with HIV at birth and immediately put on antiretroviral therapy. At 18 months, the child ceased taking antiretrovirals and was lost to follow-up. When...

Scientists have identified seven new genetic regions associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common cause of blindness in older individuals. The findings could point to new biological pathways and therapeutic targets for AMD. Fuente :...

Scientists have produced the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of human metabolism to date. Scientists could use the model, known as Recon 2, to identify causes of and new treatments for diseases like cancer, diabetes and even psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Fuente :...

The powerful master regulatory transcription factor called Bcl6 is key to the survival of a majority of aggressive lymphomas, which arise from the B-cells of the immune system. The protein has long been considered too complex to target with a drug since it is also crucial to the healthy functioning...

Scientists have discovered seven new regions of the human genome -- called loci -- that are associated with increased risk of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/p...

Researchers have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to qubits, the building blocks of quantum...

Researchers have found new candidate disease proteins for neurodegenerative disorders. They describe mutations in prion-like segments of two RNA-binding proteins are associated with a rare inherited degeneration disorder affecting muscle, brain, motor neurons and bone (called multisystem...

Researchers have discovered how the most common genetic mutations in familial Parkinson’s disease damage brain cells. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/X...

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, theoretical ecologists have found. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/x...

Cancer vaccines that attempt to stimulate an immune system assault fail because the killer T cells aimed at tumors instead find the vaccination site a more inviting target, scientists report. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/5...

Scientists have discovered mutations in two genes that lead to the death of nerve cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and related degenerative diseases. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/p...