Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created
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Element 118 has been indirectly discovered in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear ...
Cause of nerve fiber damage in multiple sclerosis identified
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Researchers have identified how the body's own immune system contributes to the nerve fiber damage caused by multiple sclerosis, a finding that can potentially aid earlier diagnosis and improved treatment for this chronic ...
Mars Express and the story of water on Mars
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For a number of decades now, astronomers have wondered about water on Mars. Thanks to ESA's Mars Express, much of the speculation has been replaced with facts. Launched on 2 June 2003, Mars Express has changed ...
Listening to the sound of skin cancer
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Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia can now detect the spread of skin cancer cells through the blood by literally listening to their sound. The unprecedented, minimally invasive technique causes melanoma cells ...
HIV exploits competition among T-cells
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A new HIV study shows how competition among the human immune system's T cells allows the virus to escape destruction and eventually develop into full-blown AIDS. The study, which employs a computer model of simultaneous virus ...
DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 16, 2006 |
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Researchers say that they have developed a DNA-based computer that could lead to faster, more accurate tests for diagnosing West Nile Virus and bird flu. Representing the first "medium-scale integrated molecular ...
Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 16, 2006 |
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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and Penn State University have discovered evidence showing that microbes adapted to living with oxygen 2.72 billion years ago, at least 300 million years before the rise of oxygen in ...
NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old
Oct 16, 2006 |
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During its first week of observations from low orbit, NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is already revealing new clues about both recent and ancient environments on the red planet.
Commonplace sugar compound silences seizures
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Though in clinical use for decades, a small, sweet-tasting compound is revealing a startling new face as a potential cure for epilepsy.
Ecosystem of vanishing lake yields valuable bacterium
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In the salt flats near a slowly vanishing lake, a team of researchers have found never-before-seen bacterium that could clean up some of humanity's pollution. In three scientific papers currently being written, Brent Peyton, ...
New mechanism underlying pain found
Oct 16, 2006 |
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Researchers at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD) today announced that they have discovered a new molecular mechanism that may underlie neuropathic pain. The clearer understanding of the root-cause ...
Altered Perception of Reward in Human Cocaine Addiction
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People addicted to cocaine have an impaired ability to perceive rewards and exercise control due to disruptions in the brain’s reward and control circuits, according to a series of brain-mapping studies and ...
Using chemistry to predict the dynamics of clotting in human blood
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University of Chicago chemists have demonstrated for the first time how to use a simple laboratory model consisting of only a few chemical reactions to predict when and where blood clotting will occur. The ...
Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack
Oct 16, 2006 |
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Mass vaccination would not be necessary in the event of a large-scale smallpox bioterrorist attack in the United States, according to a study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that appears online ...
New study evaluates methods to prevent importation of illicit nuclear materials
Oct 16, 2006 |
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The nightmare scenario in homeland security is a terrorist detonation of a nuclear weapon on U.S. soil. In a paper published this week in Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Dr. Lawrence Wein of the Standard University ...
