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New type of rare brittle-bone disease discovered
Researchers from the University of Zurich and University Children's Hospital Zurich have discovered the first X-chromosome-inherited type of the congenital disease osteogenesis imperfecta, also...
Parkinson’s Disease biomarker found in patient urine samples
For more than five years, urine and cerebral-spinal fluid samples from patients with Parkinson's disease have been locked in freezers in the NINDS National...
Researchers Develop Regenerative Stem Cell Treatment for Tooth Fillings
Image credit : WIKICOMMONS
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed a the new type of tooth...
Why do aged muscles heal slowly?
As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for the elderly to recover from injury...
Link between stress hormone, obesity in depressed, bipolar patients
Low levels of the stress hormone cortisol are linked to obesity, high levels of fat in the blood and metabolic syndrome among patients with...
California droughts caused mainly by changes in wind, not moisture
This is California as viewed from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA, Stuart Rankin
Droughts in California are mainly controlled by wind, not by the amount...
The snow leopard — world’s most mysterious big cat — may be more common...
The snow leopard has long been one of the least studied -- and therefore poorly understood -- of the large cats. No longer.
Scientists studying...
Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened
Minor evolutionary changes could have altered the fates of both Earth and Venus. Credit: Composite image by Arie Wilson Passwaters/Rice University
If conditions had been...
Hydrogen cyanide on Titan key to possible prebiotic conditions
An image of Titan's surface, as taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it plunged through the moon's thick, orange-brown atmosphere on...
Scientists isolate, culture elusive Yellowstone microbe
Cistern Spring in Yellowstone National Park is home to the elusive archaeon Nanopusillus acidilobi.
Credit: ORNL
A microbial partnership thriving in an acidic hot spring in...
Ostrich relative lived in North America about 50 million years ago
A Lithornithid skull from the Calciavis grandei fossil, found in Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Credit: Sterling Nesbitt/Virginia Tech
Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil specimens dating 50...
