Archive: 06/04/2007
Stanford researchers find stem cells in colorectal tumors
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified the cancer stem cells that propagate tumors in colon and rectal cancer, a discovery that could lead to improved treatment of this deadly cancer.
Jun 04, 2007 |
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Modeling the restless brain
Indiana University neuroscientists Olaf Sporns and Christopher Honey find the 98 percent of brain activity that other researchers consider just background noise to be fascinating and important.
Jun 04, 2007 |
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$6 million Alzheimer grant announced
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded a $6 million grant for the continuation of a promising study into Alzheimer's disease treatments.
Jun 04, 2007 |
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British smokers may lose medical benefits
Proposals being considered by the British government may deny cigarette smokers routine operations unless they quit smoking a month prior.
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ISS prepares for a spacewalk and visitors
International Space Station cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov spent much of Monday preparing for their second spacewalk in eight days.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2007 |
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Preserving Library of Congress' treasures is goal of FSU researcher
The Library of Congress has no shortage of reading materials with more than 134 million items in its collection. This summer, a Florida State University chemist will use his knowledge of cellulose, a key component of paper, ...
Jun 04, 2007 |
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Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state
Tapping into the unknown world of awakening dormant bacterial spores, researchers have revealed through atomic force microscopy (AFM) the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from ...
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Jun 04, 2007 |
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Toshiba Brings World’s First Slim HD DVD Re-writable Drive to Notebook PCs
Toshiba today announced the world’s first slim HD DVD-RW drive for notebook PCs that can read and write and rewrite to HD DVD-RW discs, and read and write to HD DVD-R discs and to standard DVD and CD discs. ...
Jun 04, 2007 |
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Nitrate in Lake Superior: On the Rise
Nitrate levels in Lake Superior, which have been rising steadily over the past century, are about 2.7 percent of the way toward making the lake's water unsafe to drink, according to a study by University of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 04, 2007 |
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NASA Spacecraft Ready for Science-Rich Encounter With Venus
NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will make its closest pass to Venus on Tuesday, June 5. This will place the spacecraft on target for a flyby of Mercury ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2007 |
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The Loneliest Black Holes in the Universe
Actively growing supermassive black holes in centers of galaxies are common even in cosmic voids, the most rarefied and empty regions of the universe.
Jun 04, 2007 |
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Diagnosing skin cancers with light, not scalpels
In an early step toward nonsurgical screening for malignant skin cancers, Duke University chemists have demonstrated a laser-based system that can capture three-dimensional images of the chemical and structural changes under ...
Jun 04, 2007 |
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People Think They Reap What They Sow
People gauge how responsive their partners are primarily by how they themselves respond to their partners—not the other way around, according to a series of Yale studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 04, 2007 |
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What Did Dinosaurs Hear?
What did dinosaurs hear? Probably a lot of low frequency sounds, like the heavy footsteps of another dinosaur, if University of Maryland professor Robert Dooling and his colleagues are right. What they likely couldn't hear ...
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Jun 04, 2007 |
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Study of staph shows how bacteria evolve resistance
Antibacterial resistance doesn’t happen overnight. But until recently nobody knew exactly how long it took — or how it happened at all. Now, by studying blood taken from a single patient over a period of months, Rockefeller ...
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