Researchers develop technique to count messages made by single genes
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In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's ...
Researchers Suggest New Models for Music Education
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Preteens and teenagers today are involved in music in ways that never could have been imagined 50 years ago. Yet America’s secondary school music education programs remain strikingly similar to those of five ...
Seven Things Missing From First Google Phone
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Dec 02, 2008 |
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The first Google phone, the G1, went on sale October 21, 2008. No one was camped out in front of the store and you can buy one today at your T-Mobile store or BestBuy for $179.
Operations engineering for more efficient operating rooms
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Work by specialists from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has led to significant improvements in turnover times for operating rooms at three California safety net hospitals, allowing "many more hours of daytime surgery ...
Plants display 'molecular amnesia'
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant researchers from McGill University and the University of California, Berkeley, have announced a major breakthrough in a developmental process called epigenetics. They have demonstrated for the first ...
Old as you want to be: Study finds most seniors feel younger
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Older people tend to feel about 13 years younger than their chronological age. That is one of the findings of a study forthcoming in the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science. The researchers analyzed the respon ...
Drop in cancer deaths tied primarily to gains in behavior and screening
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Improvements in behavior and screening have contributed greatly to the 13 percent decline in cancer mortality since 1990, with better cancer treatments playing a supporting role, according to new research from David Cutler ...
New study identifies link between Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in healthy adults
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A study published in the November issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease provides an insight into normal, physiological levels and association between proteins involved in development of Alzheimer's disease. A group ...
Mini heart attacks lessen damage from major ones
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Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow to arteries prior to a heart attack lessens the damage caused, according to a study published today in the journal ...
Fruit fly research may lead to better understanding of human heart disease
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Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown in both fruit flies and humans that genes involved in embryonic heart development are also integral to adult heart function. The study, led by ...
Ice beetles impacted by climate change
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In the summer of 1968, Dave Kavanaugh set off on a hike that would change the course of his life. As a second-year medical student at the University of Colorado, he had joined a climbing club with a few members of the biophysics ...
Ecological impact of African cities
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African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. This is having a major impact, but few ecologists are studying the urban environment and effect of cities on rural areas. One of the most important ecological ...
These shells don't clam up: Innovative technique to record human impact on coastal waters
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With their sedentary lifestyles and filter-feeding habits, clams have been silent witnesses to the changes that humans have inflicted upon their waters. These clams are silent no more, as Dr. Ruth H. Carmichael ...
Clues about controlling cholesterol rise from yeast studies
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Having discovered how a lowly, single-celled fungus regulates its version of cholesterol, Johns Hopkins researchers are gaining new insight about the target and action of cholesterol-lowering drugs taken daily by millions ...
A human approach to computer processing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 02, 2008 |
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A more human approach to processing raw data could change the way that computers deal with information, according to academics at The University of Nottingham.
