Real-time gene monitoring developed
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Imagine having GeneVision: the uncanny ability to view the activity of any chosen gene in real time through a specially modified camera.
Girls have superior sense of taste to boys
Dec 16, 2008 |
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New knowledge: Girls have a better sense of taste than boys. Every third child of school age prefers soft drinks which are not sweet. Children and young people love fish and do not think of themselves as being ...
Researchers develop computational tool to untangle complex data
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Dartmouth researchers have developed a mathematical tool that can be used to unscramble the underlying structure of time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of ...
Titan's Volcanoes Give Cassini Chilly Reception
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data collected during several recent flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have put another arrow in the quiver of scientists who think the Saturnian moon contains active cryovolcanoes ...
New satellite data reveal impact of Olympic pollution controls
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese government regulators had clearer skies and easier breathing in mind in the summer of 2008 when they temporarily shuttered some factories and banished many cars in a pre-Olympic sprint ...
With increasing obesity, fuel consumption becomes weighty matter
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Excess fuel consumption caused by excess driver and passenger weight has increased in the past two years, with no end in sight.
Hottest Stars in Delicate Embrace by Spiral Arms
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) announced today that the hottest and most massive stars are wrapped in spiraling waves of hot gas. These winding waves, which ...
Researchers identify new anti-tumor gene
Dec 16, 2008 |
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Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University have identified a new anti-tumor gene called SARI that can interact with and suppress a key protein that is overexpressed in 90 percent of human cancers. The discovery could ...
Both theories about human cellular aging supported by new research
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Aging yeast cells accumulate damage over time, but they do so by following a pattern laid down earlier in their life by diet as well as the genes that control metabolism and the dynamics of cell structures such as mitochondria, ...
Oregon's Rogue River Basin to face climate-change hurdles
Dec 16, 2008 |
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Three major global climate-change projections scaled down to Oregon's Rogue River Basin point to hotter, drier summers with increasing wildfire risk, reduced snowpack and rainier, stormy winters, according ...
Study of placenta unexpectedly leads to cancer gene
Dec 16, 2008 |
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University of Rochester Medical Center scientists discovered a gene mutation that impairs the placenta and also is influential in cancer development, according to a study published online December 16, 2008, in the journal ...
Study suggests warmer temperatures could lead to a boom in corn pests
Dec 16, 2008 |
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Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study.
K-State engineers helping develop energy-harvesting radios
Dec 16, 2008 |
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If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge.
Fujitsu Develops Power-Saving CMOS Technology for 32nm-Generation and Beyond
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of power-saving CMOS technology for logic LSI chips for 32 nanometer- (32nm-) generation and beyond. The new technology enables employment ...
Smoking associated with increased risk for colorectal cancer and death
Dec 16, 2008 |
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An analysis of previous studies indicates that smoking is significantly associated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer and death, according to an article in the December 17 issue of JAMA.
