On Manhattan, risk still in air
The poor air quality around the fallen buildings of the World Trade Center complex poses health concerns for New Yorkers, public health experts said Wednesday. With worries of dangerously high...
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On Manhattan, risk still in air
The poor air quality around the fallen buildings of the World Trade Center complex poses health concerns for New Yorkers, public health experts said Wednesday. With worries of dangerously high...
POLITICS: Bush’s decision will set course of U.S. research
Stem cells have become the Aladdin's lamp of biology, potentially granting wishes of curing Alzheimer's disease, heart failure, diabetes and other common killer disorders that affect 128 million Americans. Whether...
Science explores stem cell options
As the political fortunes of embryonic stem cell research hang in the balance, scientists increasingly are looking for alternatives in case federal funding for work on human embryos falls through....
Starting school at 3 can help low-income kids, study finds
How little Diamond Foster-Graham--an impressively bright but maddeningly defiant 4-year-old--fared in her South Side preschool might appear to be a trivial question. But as new research published Wednesday underscores, putting...
Fat seen as promising source of stem cells
Americans spend billions of dollars annually to get rid of fat, but adipose tissue is turning out to be a surprisingly rich source of stem cells, the wonder cells that...
Scientists get cells to shift identities, raise new hopes
In a bit of biological alchemy, scientists have converted human blood cells into brain cells, the latest achievement in the "stem cell" research that may someday allow doctors to grow...
RYAN OFFERS ANTI-GANG PLAN
Describing himself as "sick and tired" of the deadly gang-related violence that has made headlines in Chicago in recent days, Gov. George Ryan today outlined a joint city-state plan to...
PROBE OF AMOCO TUMORS YIELDS CLUES BUT NO CAUSE
After three years, millions of dollars and countless hours of work, frustrated medical researchers conceded Thursday they still are at a loss to explain a cluster of deadly brain cancers...
Stem cells opening path to brain repair
After 10 years, the drugs Dr. Jacqueline Winterkorn had been taking to quell the shaking and immobility of Parkinson's disease were wearing off. "It's a very sad disease," she said....