Missions to Mars: GSI will investigate radiation risks for astronauts
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the GSI accelerator facility to assess radiation risks that astronauts will be exposed to on a Mars mission. GSI was selected because its accelerator is the only ...
Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age
Technology / Computer Sciences
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Linking communities and information into a virtual digital library is the 21st century version of the Dictionaire Raisonneé. Better, they can be organised around specific topics, creating vast repositories and networks of ...
Clues to ancestral origin of placenta emerge in Stanford study
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered the first clues about the ancient origins of a mother's intricate lifeline to her unborn baby, the placenta, which delivers oxygen and nutrients critical ...
MIT to open energy resource center
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working with a German research firm to open a sustainable energy center near the college, the school announced.
Blood pressure drugs halt pancreatic cancer cell growth, researchers find
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Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia are inching closer to understanding how common blood pressure medications might help prevent the spread of pancreatic cancer. They have ...
Exercise may lead to faster prostate tumor growth
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Prostate tumors grew more quickly in mice who exercised than in those who did not, leading to speculation that exercise may increase blood flow to tumors, according to a new study by researchers in the Duke Comprehensive ...
Calorie restriction limits and obesity fuels development of epithelial cancers
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A restricted-calorie diet inhibited the development of precancerous growths in a two-step model of skin cancer, reducing the activation of two signaling pathways known to contribute to cancer growth and development, researchers ...
New discovery may help explain smoking-pancreatic cancer link
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If lung cancer and heart disease aren’t bad enough, cigarette smokers are also at higher risk for developing, among other things, pancreatic cancer. Now, researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia ...
Gene-environment interaction in yeast gene expression
Biology /
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The nature vs. nurture debate is familiar to most people, and modern conclusions usually predict a balance between the two. A new paper published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology shows that there is a simi ...
Diuretics associated with bone loss in older men
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Older men who take loop diuretics, commonly prescribed drugs for heart failure and hypertension, appear to have increased rates of hip bone loss than men who are not taking this medication, according to a report in the April ...
Largest ever study of genetics of common disease just got bigger
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DNA samples from 120,000 people are to be analysed in a £30 million follow up to last year's Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), the largest ever study of the genetics behind common diseases. The seven-fold increase ...
Researchers find stem cell marker controls 2 key cancer pathways
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Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that a gene associated with human breast stem cells can stimulate development of mammary cells by activating two critical cancer pathways. They say this ...
Study finds smoking related to subset of colorectal cancers
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Smoking puts older women at significant risk for loss of DNA repair proteins that are critical for defending against development of some colorectal cancers, according to research from a team led by Mayo Clinic scientists.
Potential Blood Test for Chronic Sinusitis Identified
Apr 14, 2008 |
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A protein profile has been identified in the blood of chronic sinusitis sufferers that may enable physicians to objectively diagnosis and treat the disease, researchers say.
New Grape Rootstocks Fight Pests Naturally
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Five new pest-resistant grape rootstocks recently released by UC Davis are environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical fumigants.
