Nanoscale packaging could aid delivery of cancer-fighting drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Nature has produced a well-stocked arsenal of potent cancer-fighting compounds, including Taxol, first isolated from the Pacific yew tree, and rapamycin, borrowed from a soil-dwelling bacterium.
Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles
Feb 15, 2007 |
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The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as “Google of the brain.” The atlas now has a companion or the brain’s working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of ...
Scientists plan 10-year quake forecasts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2007 |
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A Canadian scientist says she is involved in an international effort to create 10-year earthquake forecasts for several nations.
Unique mass spectrometer to explore Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2007 |
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A group of U.S. biomedical scientists has won a $750,000 NASA grant to design a mini mass spectrometer to aid in the search for life on Mars.
Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
Feb 15, 2007 |
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As a night of bad sleep can have an adverse effect on an adult’s performance at work the next day, an insufficient amount of rest can also have a negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. ...
Researchers untangle nature of 'regressive evolution' in cavefish
Biology /
Feb 15, 2007 |
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"Regressive evolution," or the reduction of traits over time, is the result of either natural selection or genetic drift, according to a study on cavefish by researchers at New York University's Department of Biology, the ...
Investigating the trochus 'El Dorado'
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Scientific and indigenous knowledge must join together to better manage disappearing marine resources in developing countries, such as shark, trochus, and sea cucumber stocks on the islands to Australia’s north.
Rats' senses a whisker away from humans
Feb 15, 2007 |
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The sophisticated way in which rats use their whiskers in their surrounding environments show significant parallels with how humans use their fingertips, according to new research carried out at the University ...
Researchers discover new details about HIV-1 entry and infection
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 15, 2007 |
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The primary targets of HIV-1 infection in the human vagina have been definitively identified in a new study published in the February 2007 issue of the journal Immunity, published by Cell Press. The findings are likely to gui ...
Active lifestyle reduces risk of invasive breast cancer
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Six or more hours per week of strenuous recreational activity may reduce the risks of invasive breast cancer by 23 percent, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
Nottingham scientist fights climate change
Feb 15, 2007 |
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A University of Nottingham scientist has won a Royal Society award for his innovative work to combat climate change.
Antarctic warming to reduce animals at base of ecosystem, shift some penguin populations southward
Feb 15, 2007 |
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The warming most global climate models predict will do more harm than simply raise the sea levels that most observers fear. It will make drastic changes in fragile ecosystems throughout the world, especially in the Antarctic.
HEX2 a success: 4-rocket aurora experiment launches from Poker Flat
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2007 |
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An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapor trails in an ...
Metabolic disease too easily missed
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Terry Derks has demonstrated that the metabolic disease MCAD deficiency can be detected at an early stage. At present the disease is only found in half of the expected number of patients. With the help of ...
Citrus Experiment Station marks 100th year
Feb 15, 2007 |
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The Citrus Experiment Station at the University of California, Riverside, has marked its 100th year of developing and breeding new fruit strains.
