Structure reveals how cells 'sugar-coat' proteins
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Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and the University of Wurzburg, Germany, have deciphered the structure of a large protein complex responsible for adding ...
US stands to lose a generation of young researchers
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Five consecutive years of flat funding the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is deterring promising young researchers and threatening the future of Americans’ health, a group of seven preeminent academic research ...
Endeavour Launches Into Night, Set to Expand Space Station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Space shuttle Endeavour thundered into orbit early Tuesday morning carrying seven astronauts and Japan's dreams for a space-based laboratory at the International Space Station.
Scientists to discover why flamingos are in the pink of health -- in the poo!
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A University of Leicester ecologist is setting out to discover why flamingos are so in the pink of health - in the poo! Dr David Harper, of the Department of Biology at the University of Leicester, has been studying lesser ...
FDA issues Tussionex safety alert
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 11, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert, saying incorrect usage of a specific cough medicine can result in serious health risks.
Rare pygmy hippos photographed
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British conservationists have captured photographs of two extremely rare pygmy hippos living in the wild in Liberia.
Mini-Donut Catches Chloride Ions
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Ions—charged atoms or molecules—play an important role in nature, in our bodies as well as for science and technology. It is often necessary to trap, remove, mask, stabilize, or transport ions, whether in ...
Arctic climate models playing key role in polar bear decision
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2008 |
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The pending federal decision about whether to protect the polar bear as a threatened species is as much about climate science as it is about climate change.
Cooperation between figs, wasps and parasites proves 3 is not always a crowd
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This week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology, scientists Simon Segar, James Cook, Derek Dunn, and colleagues at the University of Reading have found that during mutualism, a cooperative relationship between two di ...
Lego system for production facilities
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Things that work on a small scale are not necessarily as successful on a large one. It takes a lot of patience and money to scale up analytical or therapeutic processes from the laboratory to industrial manufacture. ...
Late treatment with letrozole can reduce breast cancer recurrence risk
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Treatment with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole (Femara) can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence even when initiated one to seven years after a course of tamoxifen therapy. The results of a study involving women ...
Post brain injury: New nerve cells originate from neural stem cells
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Most cells in the human brain are not nerve cells, but supporting cells (glial cells). They serve as a framework for nerve cells and play an important role in the wound reaction that occurs with injuries to the brain. However, ...
Clean diesels
Mar 11, 2008 |
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Modern diesel cars are not only quieter than their predecessors but also release considerably fewer exhaust fumes into the atmosphere. The filters for heavy-duty, construction and off-road vehicles are not ...
Embedded systems get smarter, tougher
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A European research team has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory goals, of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.
Researchers describe how digits grow
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) are wagging a finger at currently held notions about the way digits are formed.
