IBM Accelerates Virtual Desktop With Breakthrough Solution
Sep 16, 2008 |
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IBM today announced a powerful new solution to help organizations slash virtual desktop infrastructure storage requirements by up to 80 percent, allowing them to take advantage of new cloud computing models at significantly ...
Baby eyes are taking in the world, applying self-experience to other people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Those wide-eyed babies are taking in and using more information than previously believed. In fact, new research by psychologists at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and ...
Carrots and sticks to promote a healthy lifestyle?
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When it comes to deciding whether paying people to make healthier lifestyle changes is a good thing, it seems patient opinion is split right down the middle. Unsurprisingly perhaps, those who smoke and are overweight are ...
Wild dogs reveal nature's 'poverty trap'
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hunting in a fast-moving pack is a high-risk strategy, according to research by Oxford University and Université Paris-Sud scientists.
Coating improves electrical stimulation therapy used for Parkinson's, depression, chronic pain
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have designed a way to improve electrical stimulation of nerves by outfitting electrodes with the latest in chemically engineered fashion: a coating of basic black, ...
Researcher Finds New Method to Create Cancer Drugs
Sep 16, 2008 |
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When fixing a car, it’s a good idea to have more than one type of wrench. Similarly, when doctors treat cancer patients, they like to have different “tools” available. Cancer tumors can be big or small. Some tumors grow very ...
A cautionary note in the use of carbon nanotubes as interconnects
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (UK) have used scanning tunnelling microscopy to confirm remarkable changes in the fundamental electronic behaviour when double-walled ...
From Xbox to T-cells: Michigan Tech researchers borrow video game technology to model human biology
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Michigan Technological University is harnessing the computing muscle behind the leading video games to understand the most intricate of real-life systems.
Looking vs. Seeing
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The superior colliculus has long been thought of as a rapid orienting center of the brain that allows the eyes and head to turn swiftly either toward or away from the sights and sounds in our environment. Now a team of scientists ...
Why some primates, but not humans, can live with immunodeficiency viruses and not progress to AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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Key differences in immune system signaling and the production of specific immune regulatory molecules may explain why some primates are able to live with an immunodeficiency virus infection without progressing to AIDS-like ...
Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...
Blood pressure drug combination reduces heart attack deaths
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Thousands of patients with high blood pressure could benefit from changing their drug treatment regimen to reduce their risk of cardiac death.
New drug substantially extends survival in pancreatic cancer
Sep 16, 2008 |
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A new form of chemotherapy that destroys new blood vessels that grow around tumors has produced excellent results in a phase II trial of patients with inoperable pancreatic cancer, researchers report at the 33rd Congress ...
Scientists harness power of worms to treat arthritis
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists are aiming to harness a substance secreted by parasitic tropical worms to help them find a more effective treatment for inflammatory types of arthritis. A team of scientists ...
Engineered stem cells carry promising ALS therapy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using adult stem cells from bone marrow as "Trojan horses"to deliver a nurturing growth factor to atrophied muscles, Wisconsin scientists have successfully slowed the progression of ALS in rats.
