Immune System Can Control HIV
A research team from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has shown that the majority of HIV-infected individuals who begin antiviral therapy…
Fetuses Hear At 30 Weeks
Listen up expectant dads: All those hours spent talking to your unborn child via your partner’s burgeoning belly don’t go…
Promising HIV Vaccine Strategy Identified In Monkey Studies
Vaccines designed to trigger an immune response to a small HIV protein called Tat could be a promising way to…
Himalayan Ice Reveals Climate Warming
Ice cores drilled through a glacier more than four miles up in the Himalayan Mountains have yielded a highly detailed…
Lung Function May Predict Long Life Or Early Death
How well your lungs function may predict how long you live. This finding is the result of a nearly 30-year…
Warming Trend Seen In Late Freeze, Early Thaw
A 150-year record of freeze and ice breakup dates for lakes and rivers in such far-flung locales as Wisconsin and…
Primordial Meteorite In A Class By Itself
A chemical analysis of a rare, uncontaminated 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth earlier this year shows that its…
Intensive Exercise Is Bad For Your Lungs
“There is nothing like sport to improve your breathing!” people often say. Yet this is one piece of advice many…
Successful Use Of Drugs To Extend Lifespan
In a collaborative effort, scientists have for the first time successfully increased normal life span in the nematode worm C.…