Glowing jellyfish have lit the way to 2008's Nobel Prize in chemistry for one Japanese and two American researchers, pioneers in illuminating biological processes inside cells and behind diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. ...
German, 2 French researchers share Nobel Prize in medicine
French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year.
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American, 2 Japanese share Nobel Prize in Physics
Two Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discoveries that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the 10 million kronor (US$1.4 million) prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry
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Science policy of Obama and McCain 2008
Presidential answers to the top 14 science questions facing America...
New clue to Alzheimer's found
Researchers have uncovered a new clue to the cause of Alzheimer's disease. The brains of people with the memory-robbing form of dementia...
Computer model knows what you're thinking: Researchers can predict which noun a person is visualizing
A computer model has been developed that can predict what word you are thinking of. The model may help to resolve questions about how the brain processes words and language...
New Map Reveals Dynamic Variation in Human Genome
A team of researchers led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Evan E. Eichler at the University of Washington has produced the first high-resolution map showing the structural variation that exists in the human genome...
The question of how the human brain represents and organizes conceptual knowledge seems impossibly complicated to answer, given how even simple nouns, such as "celery," might be expected to activate neurons in various areas, such as ...
Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease
Common human diseases result from the interplay of many genes and environmental factors.
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Variations in DNA elucidate molecular networks that cause disease
Identifying variations in DNA that increase susceptibility to disease is one of the primary aims of genetic studies using a forward genetics approach. However, identification of disease
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Therapeutic potential of statins in thyroid proliferative disease
The thyroid gland is a frequent site of abnormal epithelial cell proliferation. Proliferative diseases
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Are You a Morning Person?
Some neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, have been implicated in adjusting a person's mood. The circadian clock mechanisms
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A protein that makes breast cancer spread
Researchers pinpoint protein 'boss' that controls gene expression...
Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing
You can't buy happiness but it looks like you can at least inherit it, British and Australian researchers said
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Understanding biological functions through molecular networks
The completion of genome sequences and subsequent high-throughput mapping of molecular
networks have...
AIDS Vaccine Research
In the News of the Week story "Trials of NIH's AIDS vaccine get a yellow light"
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