Study: Green tea prevents heart disease
Sep 13, 2006 |
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A Japanese study has suggested that green tea consumption can reduce the risk of heart disease.
Fuel cell membrane materials offer solution for removing salt from water
Sep 13, 2006 |
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The problem of separating salt from water has long been solved by forcing the water through a polyamide membrane in a process called reverse osmosis (RO). However, the water can't be disinfected with chlorine ...
Electric Ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Here's something fun to try in your kitchen: Go to the freezer, open the door and pry loose an ice cube. Next, look around the freezing compartment for some frost—the crystalline fuzz that loves to coat your ...
Engineering a 'Trojan horse' to sneak drugs into the brain
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Beset by a host of debilitating and potentially fatal disorders, the human brain is in desperate need of a few good drugs. The catch, however, is that nature has set up a roadblock known as the blood-brain barrier — intended ...
What's next for gene therapy? Plastic
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Gene therapy depends upon foreign DNA, even viruses, to deliver genes, therapeutic proteins, or medicine to cells within the body. Many scientists are looking for better chaperones across the cell membrane. Virginia Tech ...
Nano researchers build new and improved humidity sensors
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 13, 2006 |
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University of Alberta researchers have built a humidity sensor that can do much more than monitor weather and the likelihood of rain - it may one day help to save lives.
Panasonic Introduces Three New Business-Rugged Toughbook Notebooks With Embedded 3G Wireless
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Panasonic Computer Solutions Company today introduced three new business-rugged Panasonic Toughbook notebook computers: The ultraportable CF-W5, tablet alternative CF-T5, and the thin-and-light desktop replacement CF-Y5.
Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
Sep 13, 2006 |
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On Monday, August 14, Lilly Jaffe, a six-year-old North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was one month old, checked into the Clinical Research Center at the University of Chicago Medical ...
Biologists probe the machinery of cellular protein factories
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Proteins of all sizes and shapes do most of the work in living cells, and the DNA sequences in genes spell out the instructions for making those proteins. The crucial job of reading the genetic instructions and synthesizing ...
ISS Astronauts Wrap Up Second Spacewalk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2006 |
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The second STS-115 spacewalk is now in the history books. STS-115 Mission Specialists Dan Burbank and Steve MacLean concluded the spacewalk at 12:16 p.m. EDT after continued efforts to prepare the International ...
Clemson research cleans up with edible oil
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Oil and water don't mix, and that could be the key to edible vegetable-based oil being the answer to contaminant clean-up.
Experimental Danish ethanol plant built
Sep 13, 2006 |
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A pilot ethanol plant has been built at the Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark, to convert agricultural bi-products into the fuel.
Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Scientists are taking the amazing protein-making parts out of cells and putting them into systems to mass-produce designer proteins for a wide variety of medical uses. At the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society ...
New System Monitors Tiny 'Earthquakes' in Bones to Prevent Fractures
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Researchers are applying the same basic technique seismologists use to measure earthquakes for a new medical technology that promises to prevent stress fractures by detecting the formation of tiny cracks in bones.
Warming Climate May Put Chill on Arctic Polar Bear Population
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Some travel agencies touting Arctic tours have been revving up their recent promotions to tourists about the increased likelihood they will spot polar bears in this region where several populations of polar ...
