Archive: 03/06/2007
Holographic images use shimmer to show cellular response to anticancer drug
The response of tumors to anticancer drugs has been observed in real-time 3-D images using technology developed at Purdue University.
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Docs support incentives; balk at reporting
A survey shows U.S. physicians support pay for performance plans, but oppose public reporting of assessments for fear of harming some patients.
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Researchers discover new molecular path to fight autoimmune diseases
Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and arthritis are among a variety of autoimmune diseases that are aggravated when one type of white blood cell, called the immune regulatory cell, malfunctions. In humans, one ...
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Probe to detect spread of breast cancer co-developed by UH scientist
High-temperature superconductors hold the key to a handheld tool for surgeons that promises to be more accurate, cost-effective and safer than existing methods for staging and treating various cancers, including breast cancer.
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
There's a scholarly debate brewing about whether pre-Columbian Amazonian populations settled in large numbers across Amazonia and created the modern forest setting that many conservationists take to be ‘natural.'
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Mar 06, 2007 |
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Tonga quake not conducive to tsunami
Seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis and their colleagues in Australia, Japan and Tonga have determined why a large earthquake in Tonga did not cause a large tsunami. A tsunami warning was issued ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Fujitsu Introduces World's First 2.5'' 7,200 RPM 3.0 Gb/s SATA HDD
Fujitsu today announced the development of the new MHW2 BJ series of world's first 7,200 rpm 2.5" hard disk drives (HDDs) with a serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface.
Mar 06, 2007 |
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JST, NEC Realize Secure Quantum Key Distribution with Quantitative Assurance
Japan Science and Technology Agency and NEC Corporation today announced joint development of the world's first quantum key distribution (QKD) system that guarantees security under actual operating environments.
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Sound waves turn natural gas into liquid
Worldwide, 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas is wasted every year. Now, the Denver-based company Swift LNG aims to turn that gas into a usable liquid fuel with a thermoacoustic natural gas liquefaction technology just ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Honda Unveils 'Small Hybrid Sports Concept'
Honda has unveiled a concept model which represents its interpretation of how a future hybrid model might appear. Honda Small Hybrid Sports Concept, a design study model, demonstrates a unique fusion of advanced ...
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation
A new study suggests that ovarian cancer cells form by hijacking a developmental genetic process normally used to form fallopian tubes. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer ...
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Sign language cell phone service created
The world's first sign language dictionary available from a mobile phone has been launched by the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies.
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Researchers design folate-packed tomato
Leafy greens and beans now aren’t the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy start to pregnancy. Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ...
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Mar 06, 2007 |
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Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers
Children whose parents and families are under ongoing stress have more fevers with illness than other children. Published this month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study also shows the unanticipated conclu ...
Mar 06, 2007 |
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TSMC Manufactures First Functional 65nm Embedded DRAM Device
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today announced the foundry industry’s first functional 65nm embedded DRAM customer product. The product contains millions of DRAM bits and was silicon verified first time ...
Mar 06, 2007 |
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