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Rate of bicycle-related fatalities significantly lower in states with helmet laws 24 May 2013 | 11:45 pm
Existing research shows that bicyclists who wear helmets have an 88 percent lower risk of brain injury, but researchers at Boston Children's Hospital found that simply having bicycle helmet laws in pl...
Scientists discover how rapamycin slows cell growth 24 May 2013 | 11:30 pm
University of Montreal researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that can potentially slow the progression of some cancers and other diseases of abnormal growth. In the May 23 edition of...
Vaccine blackjack: IL-21 critical to fight against viral infections 24 May 2013 | 11:15 pm
Scientists at Emory Vaccine Center have shown that an immune regulatory molecule called IL-21 is needed for long-lasting antibody responses in mice against viral infections. Source: Emory Health Scie...
Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula's true shape 24 May 2013 | 11:00 pm
The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like ...
A hidden population of exotic neutron stars 24 May 2013 | 10:45 pm
Magnetars – the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation – are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. A major campaign using NASA's Cha...
The secret lives, and deaths, of neurons 24 May 2013 | 10:30 pm
As the human body fine-tunes its neurological wiring, nerve cells often must fix a faulty connection by amputating an axon — the "business end" of the neuron that sends electrical impulses to tissues ...
Researchers suggest boosting body's natural flu killers 24 May 2013 | 10:15 pm
A known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective. Researchers at the Hebrew Univ...
Protein preps cells to survive stress of cancer growth and chemotherapy 24 May 2013 | 10:00 pm
Scientists have uncovered a survival mechanism that occurs in breast cells that have just turned premalignant-cells on the cusp between normalcy and cancers-which may lead to new methods of stopping t...
The world's favorite fruit only better-tasting and longer-lasting 24 May 2013 | 09:45 pm
Tomatoes, said to be the world's most popular fruit, can be made both better-tasting and longer-lasting thanks to UK research with purple GM varieties. Source: Norwich BioScience Institutes - Discipl...
Video: Motion quotient - A brief visual task can predict IQ 24 May 2013 | 09:30 pm
A brief visual task can predict IQ, according to a new study. This surprisingly simple exercise measures the brain's unconscious ability to filter out visual movement. The study shows that individual...
