Archive: 02/11/2009
Groundbreaking study on complex movements of enzymes
A groundbreaking study has revealed in great detail how enzymes in the cell cooperate to make fat. These enzymes are integrated into a single molecular complex known as fatty acid synthase. This complex is regarded as a potential ...
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Startups offer new ways to fix your computer
Getting help for a problem PC can be a confusing and frustrating process. Tech support can be costly and impersonal. And often it doesn't fix the problem, or it requires consumers to call multiple times before getting help.
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Apple's restriction-free music downloads create pause
When Apple Inc. announced in January that it would sell restriction-free music files, that was supposed to mean consumers could buy songs and play them on the portable gadget of their choice.
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Don't worry, kids, Stanford will teach Mom, Dad about Facebook
Status Update: Mom and Dad want to join Facebook. And, like much else about Silicon Valley parenting, they're enlisting experts to learn how.
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A no-tech world is no place to be
I felt desperate as I drove. My second trip to Starbucks in four hours; how pathetic was this? But I had to have a fix. Caffeine? Sure, I'd take some. But that wasn't what I really needed. I was there, again, as I would ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Salmonella: Tough to crack when it’s in peanuts
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket ...
Feb 11, 2009 |
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SanDisk, Toshiba Develop 32-nanometer NAND Flash Technology
SanDisk and Toshiba today announced the co-development of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory using 32-nanometer process technology to produce a 32-gigabit (Gb) 3-bits-per-cell (X3) memory chip. The breakthrough ...
Feb 11, 2009 |
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NASA Lunar Spacecraft Ships South in Preparation for Launch
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for April ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Actinide research published in Reviews of Modern Physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Livermore researcher who teamed with a United Kingdom collaborator has published an article in Reviews of Modern Physics that refines decades of actinide science and may just become the preeminent research ...
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Drug Therapy Reduces HIV Transmission in Couples Regardless of Condom Use or Safe-Sex Practices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Antiretroviral drug therapy in an HIV-positive man or women can alone help prevent the transmission of HIV to an uninfected partner, regardless of counseling, the patient’s use of condoms or other safe-sex ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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Creating New Ways for Audiences to Participate in Performance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Music Professor Jason Freeman created Piano Etudes, a Web-based application that allows audiences to participate in the composition process.
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Researchers develop new platinum-based anti-tumor compound
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in collaboration with colleagues at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new class of platinum-based ...
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Bone marrow transplant patients may benefit from new immune research
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center in Milwaukee may have found a mechanism that could preserve the leukemia-killing effects of a transplant graft, while limiting the ...
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Hypertension drug dramatically reduces proteinuria in kidney disease patients
Taking a much higher than recommended dose of the hypertension drug candesartan cilexetil effectively lowered the amount of protein excreted in the urine of patients with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
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Strength through diversity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2009 |
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