Archive: 04/05/2007
Picture obtained of rare Indonesian rabbit
Wildlife Conservation Society researchers in Asia have captured the image of one of the world's rarest rabbits -- the Sumatran striped rabbit.
Biology /
Apr 05, 2007 |
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An X-ray Time Machine?
There's nothing new about using x-rays to look at bones. But using them on bones a hundred million years old is another story. This week, a team of researchers visiting SSRL is finding that when it comes to ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Researchers use 'nanopore channels' to precisely detect DNA
Researchers at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center have shown how "nanopore channels" can be used to rapidly and precisely detect specific sequences of DNA as a potential tool for genomic applications in ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations
The most common cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, respiratory syncytial virus, infects virtually all children by age two. Along with the influenza virus, RSV is a major contributor to the approximately ...
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Nanocylinders deliver medicine better than nanospheres
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine & School of Engineering and Applied Science have discovered a better way to deliver drugs to tumors. By using a cylindrical-shaped carrier they were able sustain ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Threat of jail time doesn’t keep drunken drivers off the road
Actor Mel Gibson avoided jail time after he was convicted of driving under the influence in California last year. Most people who take to the wheel after drinking don’t think they’ll wind up behind bars either — or even be ...
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Super-cool work could expose quantum behavior
Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero.
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Hepatitis C virus blocks 'superinfection'
There’s infection and then there’s superinfection – when a cell already infected by a virus gets a second viral infection. But some viruses don’t like to share their cells. New research from Rockefeller University shows that ...
Apr 05, 2007 |
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To recognize their friends, mice use their amygdalas
Even those who can’t remember names can usually recall faces. New research from Rockefeller University suggests that a simple brain chemical, a neuropeptide called oxytocin, is a reason.
Biology /
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Disease can be our ally, not just our enemy, says evolutionary biologist
In a time when we worry about bird flu and contaminated spinach, Marlene Zuk, an evolutionary biologist at UC Riverside, offers a fresh perspective on disease and the role it plays in our lives. Her new book, Riddled with Li ...
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Scientists identify new regulatory mechanism for critical protein signaling domain
In a study with far-reaching implications, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and other institutions have for the first time identified a new in vivo regulatory mechanism for the PH Domain, a component of many proteins ...
Biology /
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Nanogenerator provides continuous power by harvesting energy from the environment
Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, ...
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Ancient Genetic Material Keeps Pups Pint-Sized
Soon after humans began domesticating dogs 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, they started breeding small canines. Now, scientists from the University of Utah and seven other institutions have identified a piece of ...
Biology /
Apr 05, 2007 |
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E-science effort will try to tame data torrents
A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling embarassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Information ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 05, 2007 |
3.8 / 5 (5) |
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Scientists decode genome of oral pathogen
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have decoded the genome of a bacteria normally present in the healthy human mouth that can cause a deadly heart infection if it enters the bloodstream.
Apr 05, 2007 |
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