Archive: 10/03/2006
Flu vaccine distributing plans announced
U.S. mathematical biologists say they've developed flu vaccine distribution alternatives for use when faced with vaccine shortages during flu outbreaks.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Study finds shoelace tags better than gold
A British study finds the device that prevents shoelaces from fraying was more valuable than gold to indigenous Cubans who traded with Columbus's fleet.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Study: New way to control inflammation
U.S. researchers say they've discovered a new way to control or terminate potentially harmful immune responses that produce inflammation.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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NASA awards space operations contract
NASA has awarded a space program operations contract valued at $1.1 billion for the first six months of its term to United Space Alliance LLC, of Houston.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Rare 'domino' transplant preformed
U.S. transplant surgeons have performed a "domino" transplant procedure to save two patients suffering a life-threatening liver condition.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Revised shark kill estimates are announced
A U.S. ocean conservation organization estimates as many as 73 million sharks are killed each year worldwide for their valuable fins.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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NIH starts clinical research consortium
The U.S. National Institutes of Health is forming a consortium to transform how the nation's clinical and translational research is conducted.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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U.S. government moves to protect whipsnake
The U.S. government has set aside 154,834 acres in California's East Bay for a protected habitat for the endangered Alameda whipsnake.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Study Finds Chemical in Curry May Help Clear Plaques
UCLA/VA researchers found that curcumin - a chemical found in curry and turmeric - may help the immune system clear the brain of amyloid beta, which form the plaques found in Alzheimer's disease.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods
A star must live in a relatively tranquil cosmic neighborhood to foster planet formation, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. A team of scientists from the University of Arizona's Steward ...
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Uncovering DNA's 'sweet' secret
DNA's simple and elegant structure - the "twisted ladder," with sugar-phosphate chains making up the "rails" and oxygen- and nitrogen-containing chemical "rungs" tenuously uniting the two halves - seems to be the work of ...
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Compound Eyes, Evolutionary Ties
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the presence of a key protein in the compound eyes of the fruit fly (which glow at center due to a fluorescent protein) allows the ...
Biology /
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Amazing Andromeda Galaxy
The many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Less expensive fuel cell may be possible
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new class of hydrogen fuel-cell catalysts that exhibit promising activity and stability. The catalysts are made of low-cost nonprecious metals entrapped in something ...
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Clemson researchers develop nanotechnology
Picture a spider web coated with sugar. But instead of luring in unsuspecting creatures, this spider web pulls in deadly anthrax spores, rendering them harmless.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 03, 2006 |
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