Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
...ously-conducted studies all found that adolescents reporting inadequate sleep, irregular sleep patterns, and/or poor sleep quality do not perform as well in school as students without sleep complaints, this study provides additional evidence indicating that sleep disturbances occur at high frequencies in adole...Antarctic warming to reduce animals at base of ecosystem, shift some penguin populations southward
...rsity. Lyons was one of many polar researchers reporting this week on the global climate threat during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco . "Researchers are seeing the movement of penguin populations southward down the peninsula as sea ice les...Scientists find new genes for Crohn's disease
...s after their landmark article in Science magazine reporting the discovery of strong links between variations i..., a consortium of U.S. and Canadian researchers is reporting in today's online issue of Nature Genetics that they have discovered several more genetic variations...NIH researchers discover protein that appears to regulate bone mass loss, the cause of osteoporosis
...nal Institutes of Health (NIH), and colleagues are reporting new insights into the biology of bone loss based on a study of 14 people with a rare genetic disorder called X-linked Hyper IgM Syndrome. X-linked Hyper IgM Syndrome strikes about one in a million American--all males--and is caused by a deficiency ...DNA analysis suggests under-reported kills of threatened whales
...ies also have been exploited without regulation or reporting in many countries. "The incentive, obviously, is financial," Baker said. "The result of under-reporting whale mortality is not simply the decline of the species and their ability to sustain their populations ?it is the increasing difficulty the si...... a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so d......for rheumatoid arthritis by 30 percent. (The paper reporting the gene is in press.) In collaborations with other scientists worldwide, Dr. Gregersen has also been able to show that certain markers are strongly linked to certain ethnic groups and others are not. “This will help us in figuring out what exac...