Hurricane Ike Larger, Eyeing Landfall Early Saturday in Texas
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Hurricane Ike hasn't been strengthening yet as of Thursday morning, Sept. 11, but he is getting larger. Ike is a very large tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds as far out as 115 miles from Ike's center ...
A 'Genetic Study' of the Galaxy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking in detail at the composition of stars with ESO's VLT, astronomers are providing a fresh look at the history of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They reveal that the central part of ...
A stronger future for the elderly
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Experts at The University of Nottingham are to investigate the effect of nutrients on muscle maintenance in the hope of determining better ways of keeping up our strength as we get old.
Protein opens hope of treatment for cystic fibrosis patients
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Scientists have finally identified a direct role for the missing protein that leaves cystic fibrosis patients open to attack from lung-damaging bacteria, the main reason most of them die before their 35th birthday, scientists ...
Newly discovered molecule promises better treatments for heart attacks, heart surgery
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Scientists have discovered a compound that could lead to new treatments for heart attacks as well as methods to protect hearts during open heart surgery and other situations in which blood flow to the heart is interrupted.
Flies, too, feel the influence of their peers, studies find
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Sep 11, 2008 |
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We all know that people can be influenced in complex ways by their peers. But two new studies in the September 11th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveal that the same can also be said of fruit flies. ...
Stem cell regeneration repairs congenital heart defect
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Mayo Clinic investigators have demonstrated that stem cells can be used to regenerate heart tissue to treat dilated cardiomyopathy, a congenital defect. Publication of the discovery was expedited by the editors of Stem Ce ...
NASA's Ares I Rocket Passes Review, Takes Giant Leap Toward Reality
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2008 |
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NASA has taken a major step toward building the nation's next generation launch vehicle with Wednesday's successful completion of the Ares I rocket preliminary design review.
New method for manufacturing radio isotopes
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Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the message from Prof. Bert Wolterbeek ...
Making snack food choices
Sep 11, 2008 |
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People who are asked whether they would choose between a "good" snack and a "bad" snack might not follow their intentions when the snacks arrive. In an article in the September/October 2008 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Ed ...
Pervasive games promise to spice up daily life
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the movie The Game, the character is hounded by villains and left for dead in Mexico in an intense version of an alternative reality game. Minus the Hollywood bravado, games that merge ...
A second career for a growth factor receptor: keeping nerve axons on target
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Neurons constituting the optic nerve wire up to the brain in a highly dynamic way. Cell bodies in the developing retina sprout processes, called axons, which extend toward visual centers in the brain, lured ...
Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Ike as it travels over the Gulf of Mexico after ripping through Cuba and Haiti. ESA's Envisat satellite is tracking the storm, which ...
Better health through your cell phone
Sep 11, 2008 |
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In many Third World and developing countries, the distance between people in need of health care and the facilities capable of providing it constitutes a major obstacle to improving health. One solution involves creating ...
Risk of breast cancer mutations underestimated for Asian women, study shows
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Oncologist Allison Kurian, MD, and her colleagues at the Stanford University School of Medicine were perplexed. Computer models designed to identify women who might have dangerous genetic mutations that increase their risk ...
