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February 15, 2012
The first international gathering of EarthCache enthusiasts will take place in New Gloucester, Maine, USA, on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. The MegaEvent will allow participants to learn about new EarthCache sites, meet site reviewers and share stories with like-minded explorers.
Activities will include learning seminars, opportunities to trade geocoins and tags, meet vendors of geocaching merchandise, and meet and mingle with other geocachers who are interested in EarthCaches from around the globe.
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May 8, 2012
A study on stem cells derived from dental tissues found that human immature dental pulp stem cells can be an alternative source for creating induced pluripotent stem cells, however the reprogramming methodology "needs refining" in terms of technique, efficiency and cell type choice. A second study found that human dental papilla stem cells have biological features similar to bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in terms of telomere length, telomerase activity and reverse…
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March 5, 2012
Physicists take a perverse pleasure in playing with the strangeness of the quantum world. That's how they have managed to entangle minuscule objects such as photons. After specific manipulations, they persuade two photons to act as a single entity, even though they are separated by several kilometers. A breakthrough has just been made in this endeavor since a team from the University of Geneva has succeeded in entangling not minuscule objects, but macroscopic crystals.
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January 15, 2014
The January issue of Health Affairs examines two aspects of the growing worldwide diabetes crisis. As Health Affairs stated in its January 2012 theme issue about diabetes, "$1 out of every $3 in Medicare dollars is spent on people with diabetes. Spending on diabetes could easily overwhelm our other efforts at constraining health care costs." Elsewhere in the world, containing diabetes is no less of a challenge.
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April 23, 2012
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions have identified two distinguishable groups of genes: Those that produce very abundant biochemical products in the cell and function properly in the majority of biological processes, and a flexible subset that might have abnormal function in a disease.
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March 26, 2012
A two-drug combination is one of the most promising advances in decades for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) -- a disease that kills 2 million people annually -- a scientist reported today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The treatment, which combines two medications already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), delivers a knockout punch to forms of TB that shrug off other antibiotics.
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April 29, 2012
A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health has found. Adding an intensive lifestyle intervention to metformin provided no more benefit than metformin therapy alone.
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January 13, 2012
On Jan. 18, 2012, Dr. Peter Jutro of the Office of Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency, will lead a session titled "National Resilience: Biological Terrorism and Environmental Security." This session will be followed one led by Dr. Alan Hecht, also of the Office of Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency, titled "Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities."
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March 12, 2012
The Brain Prize 2012 is jointly awarded to Christine Petit and Karen Steel for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.
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