Pocket-sized magnetic resonance imaging
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (17) |
0
The term “MRI scan” brings to mind the gigantic, expensive machines that are installed in hospitals. But research scientists have now developed small portable MRI scanners that perform their services in the ...
New map IDs the core of the human brain
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.4 / 5 (14) |
1
An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex -- the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher ...
Crossed (evolutionary) signals?
Biology /
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (13) |
0
What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells ...
Archaeologists find silos and administration center from early Egyptian city
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (13) |
0
A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life.
Post-exercise caffeine helps muscles refuel
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.2 / 5 (13) |
0
Recipe to recover more quickly from exercise: Finish workout, eat pasta, and wash down with five or six cups of strong coffee.
Penguins setting off sirens over health of world's oceans
Jul 01, 2008 |
3 / 5 (18) |
3
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world's oceans, and the culprit isn't only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation ...
Care-O-bot 3: Always at your service
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (13) |
0
Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household ...
New technique produces genetically identical stem cells
Biology /
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (11) |
0
Adult cells of mice created from genetically reprogrammed cells—so-called induced pluripotent stem (IPS) stem cells—can be triggered via drug to enter an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the need for further genetic ...
The Day the World Changed
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (10) |
0
Twenty years ago, a network engineer named Hans-Werner Braun started an e-mail message to the users of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fledgling NSFNET project with that sentence to announce that the ...
Gold, DNA Combination May Lead To Nano-Sensor
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (9) |
0
The ability to use genetic material to assemble nanoscopic particles of gold could be an important step toward creating tiny “spies” that will be able to infiltrate individual cells and report back in real time on the cell’s ...
Death, division or cancer? Newly discovered checkpoint process holds the line in cell division
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
2
Each day, a staggering number of cells perform a feat that still amazes researchers with its complexity: they divide to produce perfect replicas of each other. The process is called mitosis, and an inability to control it ...
Life-extending protein can also have damaging effects on brain cells
Biology /
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.4 / 5 (9) |
0
Proteins widely believed to protect against aging can actually cause oxidative damage in mammalian brain cells, according to a new report in the July Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The findings suggest that t ...
Discovery of gene mechanism could bring about new ways to treat metastatic cancer
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.9 / 5 (8) |
1
Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), induces a bystander effect that kills cancer cells ...
Political participation is partially rooted in genetic inheritance
Jul 01, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (9) |
0
The decision to vote is partly genetic, according to a new study published in the American Political Science Review. The research, by James H. Fowler and Christopher T. Dawes, of the University of California, San Diego and ...
Sunburn alert: UVB does more damage to DNA than UVA
Jul 01, 2008 |
3.9 / 5 (9) |
0
As bombs burst in air this July 4, chances are that sunburn will be the red glare that most folks see – and feel. But unfortunately, even when there is no burn, the effects of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays can have deadly ...
