Training breathing muscles improves swimming muscles' performance
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Swimmers and scuba divers can improve their swimming endurance and breathing capacity through targeted training of the respiratory muscles, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
Asian monsoons might become more intense
Jan 17, 2007 |
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British scientists have found an unexpected link between Asian monsoons and an oscillating pattern of Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures.
Built-in molecular brakes curb the sniffles
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered how our anti-infection machinery turns itself down and limits the sniffles, congestion and fevers that are a side effect of the campaign against invading viruses. The discovery ...
Penicillin-coated biomaterial created
Jan 17, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists have developed a penicillin-coated version of a polymer biomaterial to protect polymer-based surgical devices and medical implants.
Protein Cage Helps Nanoparticles Target Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at Montana State University have used an engineered form of ferritin, a cage-like iron storage protein, to both synthesize and deliver iron oxide nanoparticles to tumors. The investigators, led by Trevor Douglas, ...
Archeological dig Web site diary offered
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2007 |
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U.S. Egyptologist Betsy Bryan is sharing her work with the world through an online diary, detailing the day-to-day life at an archaeological dig.
Toward more effective paleolgenetic analysis
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2007 |
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DNA preserved in bones undergoing fossilization deteriorates up to 50 times faster when stored in a museum than when the bones are buried in the ground. This has just been shown by a paleogenetics team led by Eva-Maria Geigl ...
Big vegetarian mammals can play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, study finds
Biology /
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Removing large herbivorous mammals from the African savanna can cause a dramatic shift in the relative abundance of species throughout the food chain, according to scientists from Stanford University, Princeton University ...
Unique Collaboration Funded To Develop Nanotechnology For Melanoma
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 17, 2007 |
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A unique collaboration between electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and cancer researchers may be the perfect combination to improve diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with melanoma.
Epilepsy gene identified in mice
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University have discovered a gene in mice which is involved in epilepsy and learning disabilities in humans.
VISTA Camera takes to the air
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2007 |
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The world's biggest infrared camera for Europe's newest telescope left the UK today (17th January 2007) for its flight to Santiago in Chile. The infrared camera will sit at the focal point of VISTA - a UK provided ...
THEMIS mission fields 5 probes to solve mystery of auroral substorms
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2007 |
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NASA is poised to launch on Feb. 15 five identical space probes – the largest number of spacecraft ever attempted by the agency on a single rocket – to solve a decades-long mystery about the origin of magnetic ...
How Will the Economy Fare in 2007?
Jan 17, 2007 |
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North Carolina State professor Dr. Michael Walden is an economist and not an airplane pilot, but he uses aviation terminology to discuss the prospects for the U.S. economy in the next 12 months.
Key finding in rare muscle disease
Jan 17, 2007 |
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The finding is in the current issue of Annals of Neurology, a leading international neurology journal, in work led by Professor Nigel Laing and Dr Kristen Nowak of the Laboratory for Molecular Genetics at the Western Austra ...
New software could help people with multiple prescriptions
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Multiple prescriptions can be confusing: knowing which pill is which, when to take what medication and what pills have special instructions.
