Clemson researchers develop nanotechnology
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 03, 2006 |
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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.
New gene linked to bipolar disorder
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A new gene linked to both depression and bipolar disorder has been identified by UCL (University College London) and Danish researchers.
Study finds shoelace tags better than gold
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 03, 2006 |
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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.
Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate
Biology /
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Genome Research's cover story for Oct. 2 tells a tale of "genome archaeology" by genetic researchers who dug deeply into the long history of maize and rice. Their resulting insights into plant genomic evolution may well fuel ...
Revised shark kill estimates are announced
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A U.S. ocean conservation organization estimates as many as 73 million sharks are killed each year worldwide for their valuable fins.
Study: New way to control inflammation
Oct 03, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say they've discovered a new way to control or terminate potentially harmful immune responses that produce inflammation.
World’s biggest whoopee cushion helps kids understand the science of sound
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A giant whoopee cushion, a barber’s shop quartet transformed by technology into a rock band, and 4,500 schoolchildren encouraged to be noisy – these are just some of the surprises being served up in a groundbreaking science ...
Rare 'domino' transplant preformed
Oct 03, 2006 |
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U.S. transplant surgeons have performed a "domino" transplant procedure to save two patients suffering a life-threatening liver condition.
Compound Eyes, Evolutionary Ties
Biology /
Oct 03, 2006 |
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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 ...
Report says older drugs just as good
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A British study says schizophrenia patients do as well, if not better, on older psychiatric drugs as on newer and far costlier ones.
Food or its expectation sparks brain's hunger centers
Oct 03, 2006 |
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The concept of whetting the appetite by serving hors d'oeuvres before a meal may have a solid scientific basis, according to a new report in the October issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press. In a s ...
'Killer' B cells provide new link in the evolution of immunity
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have discovered a unique evolutionary link between the most primitive innate form of immune defense, which has survived in fish, ...
GIOVE-A laser ranging campaign successful
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterisation of the satellite's on-board ...
Researchers develop first non-invasive test to measure skin aging
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Physicists and medical researchers for the first time have demonstrated a new technique that non-invasively measures in real time the level of damage to the skin from sun exposure and aging, and initial results suggest that ...
Promising antiobesity drug fails to produce clinically meaningful weight loss
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A drug designed to target a powerful hunger-stimulating factor that has long been considered a prime target for antiobesity therapy failed to produce clinically meaningful weight loss in obese people in a long-term clinical ...
