日期：2010-02-12 Besides the 92 elements that occur naturally, scientists were able to create 20 additional chemical elements, six of which were discovered at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt. These new elements were produced artificially... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-12 A novel and rapid anti-cancer drug development strategy has resulted in a new drug that stops kidney and pancreatic（胰腺） tumors from growing in mice. Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have found a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-12 Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (February 11, 2010) While many adults consider a chubby（圆胖的，丰满的） baby healthy, too many plump（丰满的，鼓起的） infants grow up to be obese（肥胖的，过胖的） teens, saddling（使负... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-12 Theories about the rates of ice accumulation（积聚，累积） and melting during the Quaternary Period（第四纪） -- the time interval（时间间隔） ranging from 2.6 million years ago to the present -- may need to be revised, thanks to research findings p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-10 Vesicular stomatitis（水泡性口炎） virus, or VSV, has long been a model system for studying and understanding the life cycle of negative-strand RNA viruses, which include viruses that cause influenza, measles（麻疹） and rabies（狂犬病） . More impo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-10 A higher percentage of severely obese adolescents who received laparoscopic（腹腔镜检查的） adjustable gastric（胃部的） banding（捆扎） lost more than 50 percent of excess weight and experienced greater benefits to health and quality of life compar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-10 It is widely known that genetic mutations（基因突变） cause disease. What are largely unknown are the mechanisms by which these mutations wreak（发泄，报仇） havoc（大破坏，浩劫） at the molecular level, giving rise to clinically observable symptoms... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-10 The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a study published today (9 February 2010) in the scientific journal Global Change Biology. The collaborative（合作的，协作的） study, involving scientists fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-09 High blood pressure appears to predict the progression to dementia（痴呆） in older adults with impaired（受损的） executive functions (ability to organize thoughts and make decisions) but not in those with memory dysfunction（功能紊乱，机能障碍） ,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-09 Poor or declining handgrip strength（握力） in the oldest old is associated with poor survival and may be used as a tool to assess mortality（死亡率） , found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-09 Endometrial cancer（子宫内膜癌） is the most common cancer of the female reproductive tract（生殖系统） , representing 6% of all cancers. There is currently no screening method or biomarker（生物标记） to indicate early presence of disease. It is a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-09 Deafness is the most common disorder of the senses. Tragically, it commonly strikes in early childhood, severely damaging an affected child's ability to learn speech and language. In many cases, children gradually lose their hearing to become profoun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-09 Increased Medicare payments to physicians for outpatient（门诊病人） surgeries for bladder cancer（膀胱癌） have led to a dramatic rise in the number of these procedures being performed and an overall increase in cost to the healthcare system. That... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-09 A medication（药物治疗） previously studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease (latrepirdine) appears well tolerated and may improve thinking, learning and memory skills among individuals with Huntington's disease, according to a report in the Feb... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-08 The entry of oil companies into the realm（领域，范围） of renewable energy could present major obstacles（障碍，阻碍） for the development of a sustainable（持久的，可持续性的） economy that is not based on carbon resources, according to a report i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-08 Children who are especially reactive to stress are more vulnerable to（易受的伤害） adversity（逆境，灾祸） and have more behavior and health problems than their peers（平辈，同事） . But a new longitudinal study（纵向研究） suggests that highly rea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-08 Health information written by a doctor is rated as more credible when it appears on a Web site than in a blog or a homepage, according to a study of college students. The findings highlight the relative importance（相对重要性） of different online s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-08 Using an elaborate（精心制作的） sleuthing（侦查） system they developed to probe how cells manage their own division, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that common but hard-to-see sugar switches are partly in control. Because these previousl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-08 The amount of time children spend in institutional（学会的，制度的） care may affect how their brains develop. That's the conclusion of a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-05 An ultra-lightweight sponge海绵 made of clay泥土，粘土 and a bit of high-grade plastic draws oil out of contaminated受污染的 water but leaves the water behind. And, lab tests show that oil absorbed can be squeezed back out for use. Case Western Rese... 阅读全文>>