Jellyfish protein helps regrow joint cartilage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Mucin, a protein extracted from Nomura's jellyfish, has proved highly effective in regrowing cartilage in joints, scientists in Japan claim.


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Long-sought protein structure may help reveal how 'gene switch' works (Video)

Chemistry /

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The bacterium behind one of mankind's deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...


Scientists increases understanding of two types of blindness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Though based on mouse studies, the research bolsters the idea that humans suffering from these and other eye conditions may be able to help preserve function by adding antioxidants to their diet, and explains why this would ...


Transplanted coral growing fast in lagoon off Okinawa coast

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Baby coral transplanted in the Sekisei coral-reef lagoon in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture under a coral-reef regeneration program are growing steadily, according to the Environment Ministry and the Tokyo University of Marine ...


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Japanese Firms Start Testing Robots In Office Buildings

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may not be too long before visitors are greeted by a robotic receptionist in Japanese Smart Office Buildings. Shimizu Corp and Yasukawa Electric Corp have opened the "Smart Showroom" that ...



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