Ice Age lesson predicts a faster rise in sea level

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 31, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (51) | 27

If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated.

New master switch found in the brain that regulates appetite and reproduction

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 31, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (30) | 3

Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other – women who are too thin, for example, can have trouble becoming pregnant. Now, a master switch has been found in the brain of mice that controls both, ...

Landmark study opens door to new cancer, aging treatments

Medicine & Health / Cancer

Aug 31, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (21) | 2

Researchers at The Wistar Institute have deciphered the structure of the active region of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a major role in the development of nearly all human cancers. The landmark achievement opens the door ...

New approach, old drug show promise against hepatitis C, research shows

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 31, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 0

The fight against the liver disease hepatitis C has been at something of an impasse for years, with more than 150 million people currently infected, and traditional antiviral treatments causing nasty side effects and often ...

New genes found for inflammatory bowel disease in children

Medicine & Health / Genetics

Aug 31, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Researchers have discovered two new genes that increase the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in childhood.

Global study shows telmisartan reduces outcome of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 31, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

An international study led by Canadian researchers has found that telmisartan, a medication used to lower blood pressure, reduced the outcome of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke in people who are unable to tolerate ...

'Superbug' breast infections controllable in nursing mothers, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Aug 31, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

Many nursing mothers who have been hospitalized for breast abscesses are afflicted with the "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, but according to new research by UT Southwestern Medical Center ...