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Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury

To speed healing at sites of injury - such as heart muscle after a heart attack or brain tissue after a stroke - doctors would like to be able to hasten the formation of new blood vessels. One promising approach is to "mobilize" ...

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created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Unusual three-drug combo inhibits growth of aggressive tumors

An experimental anti-cancer regimen combined a diuretic, a Parkinson's disease medication and a drug ordinarily used to reverse the effect of sedatives. The unusual mixture inhibited the growth of aggressive prostate tumors ...

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New switch found for turning off a tumor signal

The discovery of new cellular machinery leading to tumor cell growth in colorectal cancers points to a possible treatment.

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created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Most evacuees in Houston plan to stay here

More than two-thirds of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees who fled to Houston for shelter a year ago said they plan to remain here, according to a recent survey by researchers at Rice University.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Rice domestiction confiirmed genetically

Biologists from Washington University in St. Louis and their collaborators from Taiwan have examined the DNA sequence family tree of rice varieties and have determined that the crop was domesticated independently ...

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created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Modern Humans, not Neandertals, may be evolutions's 'odd man out'

Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out?

Biology /

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (78) | comments 0

Researcher lights the way to better drug delivery

A Purdue University researcher has explained for the first time the details of how drugs are released within a cancer cell, improving the ability to deliver drugs to a specific target without affecting surrounding ...

Chemistry /

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Solar- B : Probing the most energetic explosions in the solar system

Solar flares are tremendous explosions on the surface of our Sun, releasing as much energy as a billion megatons of TNT in the form of radiation, high energy particles and magnetic fields. The Suns magnetic fields are known ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do clean hands signal pure heart?

It's taken more than 300 years but researchers in Canada and Illinois have some data to back up the Shakespearean link between guilt and hand washing.

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created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Lionfish threaten Long Island waters

Scientists are investigating how a flamboyant tropical fish native to the Pacific Ocean is surviving in the chilly waters off New York's Long Island.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

City not EPA responsible for Ground Zero

Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman says the order for Ground Zero workers to wear respirators during the Sept. 11 cleanup had to come from New York City.

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created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

'World's smallest controlled heat source' studies explosives at the nanoscale

Using nanometer scale analysis techniques and quantities too small to explode, researchers have mapped the temperature and length-sale factors that make energetic materials – otherwise known as explosives – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Asteroids and meteorites reveal family resemblance

Asteroids and meteorites are supposed to be made of the same stuff – at least that's what earth science teachers have been telling their students for decades. But until re-cently, the data didn't quite fit ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 0

New Jersey's telecom industry needs new growth strategy, report says

With jobs and patents declining, New Jersey's communications industry needs a dramatic turnaround strategy to capitalize on the next wireless revolution, according to a report released this week by Stevens Institute of Technology. ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 08, 2006 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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