The researchers will continue to study the mice to test whether the gene is related to other medical conditions.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

Other education stories this past year included the deaths of college test preparation pioneer Stanley Kaplan and music educator Bess Lomax Hawes.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Doctors who suspect a patient has Alzheimer's must test the person for many other physical problems first.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Many other unmanned test flights followed in the next two years.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

He invited other scientists to test his ideas.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Half of the overall test group of more than 16,000 people received the doses, while the other 8,000 people in the trial received a placebo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

For weeks, South Korean officials delayed expected announcements it would join, but experts say they had no other choice after Monday's underground nuclear weapons test by the North.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

On the other side of town, scientists are working on a genetic test they hope will cut the time it takes to diagnose MDR-TB from 70 days to two days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12