Scientists use genomic tools to create maps of DNA methylation
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of the field of stem cell biology and development remains uncharted territory. Just as famous explorers and astronomers mapped out landmasses and constellations, researchers are working ...
Researchers catch ion channels in their opening act
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Each thought or action sends a million electrical signals pulsing through your body. At the heart of the process of generating these electrical impulses is the ion channel.
Shells - a unique climate archive on the ocean floor
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Most people who find a seashell during their summer holiday on the coast will probably not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For Professor Bernd Schöne, however, these hard calcium shells provide ...
Novel approach may protect against heart attack injury
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Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have manipulated cell activity that occurs during the interruption of blood flow to strongly protect heart tissue in animal studies. The finding has the potential to ...
Retina transplants show promise in patients with retinal degeneration
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Preliminary research shows encouraging results with transplantation of retinal cells in patients with blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a report in the ...
Big babies and small families make evolutionary sense
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Macquarie University researchers have discovered and modelled the key factors responsible for offspring and family size.
Good News About $4 Gas? Fewer Traffic Deaths
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As unwelcome as they are, higher gasoline prices do come with a plus side – fewer deaths from car accidents, says a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Mayo Clinic spearheads research to discover unsuspected gene for atrial fibrillation
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found a gene mutation linked to one family's hereditary form of atrial fibrillation. Researchers hope this discovery will lead to better understanding of the disease and, eventually, better ways ...
Scientists see bright side of working with media
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Once upon a time in the world of science, sharing your work with the press was heresy. Journalists, according to the common wisdom, would get it wrong, your research would be distorted, and your colleagues would see you as ...
Making the classroom a playground for learning
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Playing computer games in school may sound like the kids rule the classroom. But European researchers have shown that such games can be used to boost learning. What’s more, the special computer games dev ...
Researchers Engineer Self-Destructing Virus
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University of Arizona researchers have sown the seeds of a virus' destruction in its own genetic code – or rather, in the genetic code of the organisms it seeks to infect. Their work could improve both the ...
Scientists Discover Which Waters Egg-Laying Mosquitoes Like Best
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Scientists at Tulane and North Carolina State universities have identified the chemical cues in water that entice yellow fever mosquitoes to lay their eggs. The study is the first to isolate the compounds that the finicky ...
New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging
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A team of researchers from Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.
Prostate cancer vaccines more effective with hormone therapy
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Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, ...
River damming leads to dramatic decline in native fish numbers
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Damming of the Colorado River over the last century, alongside introduction of game fish species, has led to an extensive decline in numbers of native fish whilst introduced species have flourished. Scientists ...
