Keeping at-risk cells from developing cancer
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that cancers arising from epigenetic changes - in this case the inappropriate activation of a normally silent gene - develop by becoming addicted to certain growth factors. Reporting ...
Wind power explored off California's coast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2007 |
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In many ways, wind energy seems an ideal energy source. Fields of mighty turbines spinning in rhythm could harness carbonless power and shuttle it off to homes and industries. But questions remain about the feasibility of ...
When she's turned on, some of her genes turn off
Biology /
Dec 10, 2007 |
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When a female is attracted to a male, entire suites of genes in her brain turn on and off, show biologists from The University of Texas at Austin studying swordtail fish.
Research says Diabetics Most at Risk from Neglected Post Meal Sugar Peak
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Christmas time is full of food when most of us simply have to worry about our expanding waist lines but new research led by the University of Warwick’s Medical School says that people with diabetes need to pay attention to ...
Lipids in the brain an important factor for Alzheimer's disease?
Dec 10, 2007 |
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As the most common form of dementia in the Western world, Alzheimer's disease carries enormous implications for our ageing society. It is generally accepted that the disease is caused by Alzheimer peptide (A -peptide) protofibrils. ...
Scientists develop new measure of 'socioclimactic' risk
Dec 10, 2007 |
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As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia, researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic" exposure of different countries to future climate change.
Researcher studies carbon fibers for nuclear reactor safety
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Carbon fibers that are only one-tenth the size of a human hair, but three times stronger than steel, may hold up to the intense heat and radiation of next generation nuclear power generators, providing a safety mechanism. ...
Red sky at night -- astronomers delight
Dec 10, 2007 |
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A collaboration of over 50 astronomers, The IPHAS consortium, led from the UK, with partners in Europe, USA, Australia, has released today the first comprehensive optical digital survey of our own Milky Way. Conducted by ...
'Golden bullet' shows promise for killing common parasite
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Researchers in Australia report development of a new type of gold nanoparticle that destroys the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, a potentially serious disease acquired by handling the feces of infected cats or eating ...
Report: Wind farms to power British homes
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Britain's secretary of business reportedly is backing a plan to have wind farms power all homes in the United Kingdom within 13 years.
Solving another mystery of an amazing water walker
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Walking on water may seem like a miracle to humans, but it is a ho-hum for the water strider and scientists who already solved the mystery of that amazing ability. Now researchers in Korea are reporting a ...
Toshiba Launches High Performance Solid State Drives With MLC NAND Flash Memory
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corp. today announced their entry into the emerging market for NAND-flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) with a series of products featuring multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.
Scientists sort cells with beams of light
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light.
Belief, disbelief and uncertainty activate distinct brain regions
Dec 10, 2007 |
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The capacity of the human mind to believe or disbelieve a statement is a powerful force for controlling both behavior and emotion, but the basis of these states in the brain is not yet understood. A new study found that belief, ...
New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the resulting environments will be virtually new to the planet, according ...
