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Mental disorders are found worldwide, and approximately one in four adults in the United States suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. The biological causes of many mental disorders are unknown and, thus, the mode of treatment is not…

Abnormally high body fat, also known as obesity, has become an epidemic in the United States. The National Institutes of Health estimates that today approximately two-thirds of the population is overweight and nearly one-third is obese. This is a marked…

Sun light is perhaps the only source of energy that can keep up with the world's ever increasing appetite for energy. More solar energy strikes the Earth in one hour than all the global fossil fuels combined can provide in a year. However, utilizing this…

Stem cells are no strangers to media attention. In the midst of all the hype and debate, it can be difficult to determine the scientific facts. Recently, several exciting technological advances have been reported in the stem cell field, and we will…

As usual, it turns out that your mother was right -- the group you surround yourself with might just get you into trouble. Last month in the journal Nature Neuroscience, two groups of researchers reported that in the devastating disease amyotrophic…

While man’s eternal search for “the fountain of youth” continues, a study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that we (at least the gourmands among us) may not like what we find. Scientists have known for…

Malaria is a parasitic disease that affects 300 million people worldwide, and kills nearly 1 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. Because it is transmitted by mosquitoes, it is prevalent in sub-tropical regions of the…

Have you ever drunk a big glass of milk or eaten an ice cream cone and then felt sick to your stomach afterwards? If so, you might be one of the estimated 30-50 million Americans who have difficulty digesting milk and other dairy products and are said to…

With cherry trees blooming from Jamaica Pond to the Public Gardens, Boston and the rest of New England experienced a reprieve from winter weather earlier this season. In fact, December 2006 was the warmest December on record in Boston, with the average…

Imagine for a minute that you are a zookeeper and that one day while inspecting your prized lizard exhibit you make a surprising discovery: your rare female Komodo dragon has produced a clutch of viable eggs despite having no contact with a male dragon!…