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But now growing numbers of researchers are abandoning the stalwart species to investigate closely related worms that offer better insights into the origins of complex biological traits.

Glenbrook Technologies of Randolph, New Jersey has received two awards in one year for the company's innovative advances in x-ray imaging technology.

The tragedy last week at Fort Hood, Texas, where an Army psychiatrist anticipating active duty has been blamed for killing 13 people and wounding 29 others in a shooting rampage, has sharpened the nation's focus not just on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also on another casualty of war: soldiers' mental health.

In January 2009, Cytokinetics announced the selection of a small molecule inhibitor of smooth muscle myosin for development.

With the tragic events at Fort Hood in Texas fresh in our minds, this weeka s observance of Veterans Day, and President Obamaa s pending decision on future troop levels in Afghanistan, the nationa s attention is firmly focused on the physical and psychological well being of those who serve in Americaa s armed forces.

SALISBURY -- Charles R. 'Dick' Rohm has announced his retirement from George, Miles & Buhr, culminating 37 years of service to the firm.

NF45 functions as an IRES trans -acting factor that is required for translation of cIAP1 during the unfolded protein response Edited by V Dixit 1Apoptosis Research Centre, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 3Division ...

Unveiling of Mobile Clinic in Elizabeth Increases Healthcare Accessibility to Kids By Children's Health Fund 11/6/2009 To make healthcare more accessible to children in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Schering-Plough Foundation has given $250,000 to the Foundation of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey in support of the New Jersey ...

Lauren Alter, M.D., used to think that she would spend her life as a musician. She even left college to pursue a career in music, eventually playing viola for seven years with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The law firm hired to audit Jersey City's development process has been removed from a major case due to ethics violations.

Middle and high school students will be "Doctors for a Day'' from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City.

NEWARK a ' Veterans who gave medical care to fellow soldiers will share their stories Friday at a free public panel at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Some veterans provided health care on and off the battlefield, treating serious physical injuries or mental trauma.

E-mail: mslavin@bu.edu Received 25 March 2009; Revised 26 August 2009; Accepted 4 September 2009; Published online 20 October 2009.

Surfing the net can help older adults slow dementia You can stop your ageing grandparents from becoming forgetful by simply asking them to surf the net, for a new study has found that Googling can consistently stimulate brain to slow or even reverse the age-related declines that can end in dementia.

Living near green space is good for health Living near a green space can significantly benefit health, according to new research.

The first batch of the H1N1 vaccine is out in nasal mist form, and people age 24 and under are on the priority list to get it.

A 28-year-old woman was charged with the stabbing death Tuesday night of her boyfriend after an argument the two had in their apartment, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

Patients who became the most critically ill with swine flu and those who died were relatively healthy young women - not the elderly and chronically ill as many still believe, according to an article released Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Experts say that tobacco use among mental health patients account for nearly half of all cigarettes consumed in the United States.