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Unsustainable harvesting of Prunus africana tree threatens prostate treatment

Responding to the dwindling abundance of Prunus africana in the wild, a tree listed as "vulnerable to extinction" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a recent study by the World Agroforestry Centre identi ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Untangling the life sciences

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Dr. Michael Stadler and his Computational Biology group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research became a member laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Managing forests requires a bird's-eye view

Managers of northern Michigan forests may not see the birds for the trees – or at least are in danger of losing sight of songbird neighborhoods when looking out for timber harvests.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rapid, high-definition chemistry with new imaging technique

With intensity a million times brighter than sunlight, a new synchrotron-based imaging technique offers high-resolution pictures of the molecular composition of tissues with unprecedented speed and quality. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DCIS patients who get invasive breast cancer have higher mortality

DCIS—who later develop invasive breast cancer in the same breast are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer than those who do not develop invasive disease, according to a study published online March 11 in the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The digital side of biology

Revolutions in science come in waves. One of the epoch-making events in modern biology came in 1995 when J. Craig Venter, an American biologist, decoded the whole genome of the Haemohilus influenzae bacterium ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Screening mammograms catch second breast cancers early

More women are surviving longer after having early-stage breast cancer, but they are at risk of developing breast cancer again: a recurrence or a new cancer, in either breast. Annual screening (a.k.a. "surveillance") mammography ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers learn why PSA levels reflect prostate cancer progression

Researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute who have been studying prostate cancer cells for decades now think they know why PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels reflect cancer progression.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Risk of breast cancer recurrence may depend on treating surgeon

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), or non-invasive breast cancer, is typically treated with either breast-conserving surgery—with or without follow-up radiation—or mastectomy. The treatment choice depends on clinical ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shunning the sun may be harmful to your health

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with more than a million new cases diagnosed each year. But efforts to prevent it might be creating a health crisis of another sort.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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