Archive: 01/17/2008
Engineered mice provide insight into Alzheimer's disease
One factor that determines how at risk an individual is of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) is the version of the APOE gene that they carry — those carrying the gene that enables them to make the apoE4 form of ...
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Watermark Leaves Criminals High and Dry
Criminals have admitted that a hi-tech invisible liquid, which can only be seen under ultra violet light, is the most effective in stopping them in their tracks.
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Discovery opens door to 'personalized' asthma therapy
In the last few years, “personalized medicine”— using genetic or other molecular biology-based diagnostic tests to customize treatment for a particular patient — has emerged as a powerful new tool for health care.
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Researchers reveal HIV peptide's possible pathway into the cell
Two theoretical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have uncovered what they believe is the long-sought-after pathway that an HIV peptide takes to enter healthy cells. The theorists analyzed two ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Bird flu spread through India
Avian influenza among poultry in India spread to new districts as animal control officials struggled to contain the outbreak.
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FDA OKs novel surgical clotting solution
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval Thursday of the first clotting solution made using recombinant DNA techniques.
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Trees, Ants and Elephants: Balance Gone Bad
UC Davis researchers in Africa have a riveting tale of natural balance gone bad, with an unhappy moral for other ecosystems: This could happen to you.
Biology /
Jan 17, 2008 |
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ISU scientist researches ways to squeeze two fuels from one kernel of corn
Getting ethanol from a corn kernel has changed the way the country looks at a corn field. Now, that view might change again.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Report identifies research to bolster knowledge of health effects of wireless communication devices
The rapid increase in the use of wireless communication devices in recent years has been accompanied by a significant amount of research into potential health effects from high exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy emitted ...
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Alzheimer's molecule is a smart speed bump on the nerve-cell transport highway
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that proteins carrying chemical cargo in nerve cells react differently when exposed to the tau protein, which plays an important ...
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Predators do more than kill prey
The direct effect predators have on their prey is to kill them. The evolutionary changes that can result from this direct effect include prey that are younger at maturity and that produce more offspring.
Biology /
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Monkey's Thoughts Make Robot Walk from Across the Globe
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot halfway around the world, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Washington state sea levels could rise considerably by end of century
Melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, combined with other effects of global climate change, are likely to raise sea levels in parts of Western Washington by the end of this century, though geological forces will offset ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Religious beliefs focus too much on self
Moving away from traditional religious beliefs to trendy, self-focused religions and spirituality is not making young adults happier, according to new research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Programming Biomolecular Self-Assembly Pathways
Nature knows how to make proteins and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) dance to assemble and sustain life. Inspired by this proof of principle, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated that it is ...
Biology /
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