Archive: 08/16/2007
Nanoscale blasting adjusts resistance in magnetic sensors
A new process for adjusting the resistance of semiconductor devices by carpeting a small area of the device with tiny pits, like a yard dug up by demented terriers, may be the key to a new class of magnetic ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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China buys an IBM supercomputer
The Beijing Meteorological Bureau in China has purchased an IBM supercomputer to produce weather forecasts during the 2008 Olympic Summer Games.
Aug 16, 2007 |
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FDA approves warfarin labeling change
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a labeling change for the widely used blood-thinning drug Coumadin (warfarin).
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Survey: Drug use increases in U.S. schools
A Columbia University study suggests 16 million U.S. high school and middle school students attend drug-infested schools.
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Tumors use enzyme to recruit regulatory T-cells and suppress immune response
One way tumors fly under the radar of the immune system is by using IDO, an enzyme used by fetuses to help avoid rejection, to recruit powerful regulatory T cells that turn down the immune response, researchers ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Can cancer drugs combine forces?
Individuals with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are treated first with a drug known as imatinib (Gleevec), which targets the protein known to cause the cancer (BCR-ABL). If their disease returns, because BCR-ABL mutants emerge ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Bugs on Bugs
Bacteria — you can live without ’em, but it won’t do you any good, according to a study of fruit flies by USC College biologists.
Biology /
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Photons on the Half Shell
In the realm of ultra-fast science, there's a region where photons of light can be made to dance only half steps. Here, advances in laser science are letting researchers tinker with the behavior light in an ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Shaky financial ground awaits many American retirees
The burden of long-term economic security in the United States is moving away from employers and the government onto the shoulders of workers - a transformation that Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker calls ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Penn researchers discover new mechanism for viral replication
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a new strategy that Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) uses to dupe infected cells into replicating its viral genome. This allows ...
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Aug 16, 2007 |
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Tropical Depression Erin Soaking East Texas
Tropical Storm Erin quickly weakened to a tropical depression when she made landfall on the Texas coast near Lamar during the early morning hours of Thursday, August 16, 2007.
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Whiplash may produce delayed jaw pain
One in three people exposed to whiplash trauma is at risk of developing delayed TMJ symptoms that may require treatment, according to research published in the August issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association.
Aug 16, 2007 |
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University of Pennsylvania researchers develop formula to gauge risk of disease clusters
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a mathematical formula to assess whether concentrated disease outbreaks can be ascribed to random-chance events or, instead, suggest a contagious or environmental ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Genetic phonetics could be the trick to sounding out DNA’s meaning
Most modern attempts to decipher how portions of genetic code are translated into physical characteristics are akin to a first-grader trying to sound out a word letter by letter — or, in this case, base pair by base pair.
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Aug 16, 2007 |
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Blood-clotting protein may be new target for Alzheimer's drugs
Despite the rapid rise of Alzheimer’s disease — the Alzheimer’s Association predicts as many as 7.7 million cases by 2030 — there are no preventative treatments available, few in the pharmaceutical pipeline, ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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