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College girl has 'remarkable' recovery after finding own brain t...

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Sat, 11/26/2011 - 21:42

A Bay Ridge woman studying speech pathology noticed problems with her own speech — leading to the discovery of a rare brain tumor and critical surgery to remove it.


 

Planetary nebula dazzles astronomers

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Fri, 07/29/2011 - 05:00

The discovery of a previously undetected planetary nebula could teach astronomers a lot


 

Volcano on the moon's far side

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 07/28/2011 - 03:30

A discovery on the moon's far side upends lunar science


 

Reduce Cost or Encourage Learning: What Would You Do?

Office of Research Integrity  Tue, 06/28/2011 - 13:25

A graduate student working in a government funded lab has made an important discovery, on his own initiative, which his advisor believes to warrant further analysis.

The student wants to perform this analysis himself because it would give him an opportunity to learn the techniques involved.

A commercial lab can perform the analysis much more quickly, however, and at low cost. Besides, the advisor does not consider it particularly worthwhile for the student to learn these analytical techniques


 

Research shows how bacteria communicate with each other

EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Tue, 03/01/2011 - 23:00

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The discovery has important implications for efforts to cope with the spread of harmful bacteria in the body.


 

NASA Discovery: A Key to Life on Other Planets?

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 12/02/2010 - 16:40

NASA discovery: scientists have reportedly found an example of life as we don't know it here on Earth


 

Spiriva as good as Serevent in asthma study

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sun, 09/19/2010 - 13:17

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Researchers say they've found a possible new treatment for adults with hard-to-control asthma.

Their discovery, however, came at a price....


 

TGen Drug Development partners with Horizon Discovery for integr...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 04/11/2010 - 22:00

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) A strategic alliance announced today between TGen Drug Development and Horizon Discovery Ltd., will significant advance personalized medicine.


 

Research project yields better understanding of the defective pr...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Thu, 12/17/2009 - 23:00

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what circumstances it might go awry.


 

Tiny T-Rex: New Fossil Shows the Dinosaur King Started Small

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 09/17/2009 - 15:50

The discovery of a mini dinosaur fossil shows Tyrannosaurus Rex started out small -- but still pretty ferocious