Preliminary global temperature figures show that the top 11 warmest years have all occurred in the last 13 years. The provisional data currently places 2007 as the seventh warmest on records back to 1850.
Like a circuit breaker that prevents electrical wiring from overheating and bringing down the house, a tiny family of three molecules stops the immune system from mounting an out-of-control, destructive inflammatory response against invading pathogens. This major finding means that new methods can now be pursued to shut down uncontrolled inflammation, restore immune system regulation, and treat chronic autoimmune disorders such as lupus.
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope has arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, for its final roundof testing. The GLAST spacecraft has successfully completed two of its three environmental tests. These tests included exposure to extreme vibrations and electromagnetic fields.
Researchers discover a new regulatory element in a region of the cystic fibrosis gene that can control the gene's expression in the gastrointestinal tract, offering new insight into it's role in the development of digestive diseases.
The Network for Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency at the UN has urge renewed international commitment to prevent loss of IQ due to fetal brain damage by facilitating access to iodized salt for the final 30 percent of world households that don't yet have it -- most of them found in just 20 countries.
House dust mite allergen levels in Sydney beds are determined by the season, with new research discovering fluctuations of such magnitude between summer and autumn levels they may be sufficient to influence asthma symptoms in sufferers.
Scientists have overcome two significant obstacles on the road to harnessing stem cells to build patches for damaged hearts. They have made significant progress in maturing beating heart cells derived from embryonic stem cells and in developing the physical scaffolding that would be needed to hold the patch in place in the heart in any future clinical application.
Researchers have shown that a controversial phenomenon known as antibody-dependent enhancement of infection is suppressed by C1q, a blood-borne immune system compound. The link may give researchers the lead they need to begin untangling a snarl of evidence from decades of puzzling epidemiological and laboratory-based studies of ADE.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new model of global carbon and nitrogen cycling that will fundamentally transform the understanding of how plants and soils interact with a changingatmosphere and climate. Current models do not account for nitrogen processing, and probably exaggerate the terrestrial ecosystem's potential to slow atmospheric carbon dioxide rise, the researchers say.
A new study published in the online open access journal, BMC Medicine, has revealed that arthroscopic surgery combined with exercise is no better than exercise alone in alleviating chronic knee pain.
The planets in our solar system weren't always in the order they are today. Four billion years ago, early in the solar system's evolution, Uranus and Neptune switched places, according to new work by a Arizona State University researcher, who based this conclusionon calculations of the surface density of the solar nebula. The solar nebula is the disk of gas and dust out of which all of the planets formed.
Domestic violence is an inherent problem in Turkey, and healthcare workers are doing little to combat the prevalence of wife beating, according to research published in the online open access journal, BMC Public Health. A survey of medical personnel reveals that a lack of training and a cultural acceptance of domestic violence may prevent victims from obtaining the support they desperately require.
New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the solar system was still under construction. The rings may last for billions of years, according to new research.
