Research team develops systems that process and understand spoken language, especially Basque
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2008 |
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A research team drawn from the Department of Systems and Automation Engineering of the Polytechnic University School and from the Faculty of Informatics at the Donostia-San Sebastián campus of the University of the Basque ...
Airports may start using T-ray detectors
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Security posts at U.S. airports could one day use T-ray detectors instead of X-ray machines to reduce inspection delays, a report said.
Researchers discover a new protein family implicated in inflammatory diseases
Mar 10, 2008 |
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A University of Central Florida research team has discovered a new protein family that may play an important role in preventing inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, some forms of cancer and even heart disease.
Researchers develop more computer-aided drug design
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Researchers in Germany report an advance toward the much awaited era in which scientists will discover and design drugs for cancer, arthritis, AIDS and other diseases almost entirely on the computer, instead of relying on ...
Key found to breakthrough drug for clot victims
Mar 10, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and Washington University in St. Louis have described for the first time the mechanism that gives a mutant enzyme molecule that they have engineered – and patented ...
Memory researchers turn to Beatles
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 10, 2008 |
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A group of researchers in the British city of Leeds are using the music of The Beatles to study how musical memories impact an individual's identity.
Oregon study raises questions on synthetic progestins
Mar 10, 2008 |
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The widely used synthetic progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) decreased endothelial function in premenopausal women in a study done at the University of Oregon. The finding, researchers said, raises concerns about ...
A common genetic mechanism discovered in nitrogen-fixing plants
Biology /
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Some soil microorganisms are capable of forging associations with plant roots in the form of symbioses. Certain of these relationships play a highly important ecological and agronomic role. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis ...
Invasive species can produce 'hotspots of evolutionary novelty,' study shows
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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When exotic species invade new territory, they often present a major threat to the other plants and animals living there—that much is clear. But researchers writing in the March 11th issue of Current Biology, a publication ...
Why disability rates are dropping among older Americans
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Better medical care and more education—not positive life-style changes—are the major reasons for a decades-long decline in disability rates among older Americans. That's according to a new study funded by the National Institute ...
Kidney cancer surgery often determined by surgeons' practice style, not medical factors
Mar 10, 2008 |
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A new study reveals that the type of surgery a patient with kidney cancer receives depends more on the surgeon’s preference than on the patient’s tumor size, demographic characteristics, or general medical health. The findings ...
Size does matter: Researchers adapt drug dosing to body size
Mar 10, 2008 |
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University of Queensland researchers are leading the charge in adapting drug dosing to a society that is changing shape.
FDA concerned about some STD medications
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 10, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned six companies to stop marketing unapproved drugs for treating and preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
ESA leads endeavour to save Earth Science data
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2008 |
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The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate, but it must be easily accessible in order to apply it to the global needs relating to the state of the Earth.
Researchers crack code of 3-D structure in key metabolic protein
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Using X-ray crystallography, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine led by structural biologist Joanne I. Yeh, Ph.D., have become the first to decipher the three-dimensional structure of a membrane-bound ...
