Newly discovered virus linked to deadly skin cancer
Jan 17, 2008 |
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A new strategy to hunt for human viruses described in this week’s issue of the journal Science by the husband-and-wife team who found the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma has revealed a previously unknown virus strongly associated with a ...
Watermark Leaves Criminals High and Dry
Jan 17, 2008 |
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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.
Team discovers how brain's own tPA helps regulate blood flow to neurons
Jan 17, 2008 |
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The human brain contains its own store of a powerful enzyme (and stroke drug) called tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which appears to be a key regulator of blood flow to brain cells, a team at the Weill Cornell Medical ...
California flood risks are 'disaster waiting to happen,' say engineers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2008 |
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While flooding in California's Central Valley is "the next big disaster waiting to happen," water-related infrastructure issues confront almost every community across the country, according to engineers at ...
Monkey's Thoughts Make Robot Walk from Across the Globe
Jan 17, 2008 |
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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.
Discovery of 'creator' gene for cerebral cortex points to potential stem cell treatments
Jan 17, 2008 |
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University of California, Irvine researchers have identified a gene that is specifically responsible for generating the cerebral cortex, a finding that could lead to stem cell therapies to treat brain injuries and diseases ...
New function for colon cancer gene found
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Dartmouth Medical School geneticists have discovered a striking turnabout role for a gatekeeper known to put on the brakes for colon cancer. Flaws in a gene called adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), which normally prevents ...
Marsupial lion tops African lion in fight to death
Biology /
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Pound for pound, Australia’s extinct marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) would have made mince meat of today’s African lion (Panthera leo) had the two big hyper-carnivores ever squared off in a fight to the death, according ...
Cells Get Sprayed
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Genetically engineered products have become indispensable. For example, genetically modified bacteria produce human insulin. In future, gene therapy should make it possible to introduce genes into the cells of a diseased ...
Alzheimer's molecule is a smart speed bump on the nerve-cell transport highway
Jan 17, 2008 |
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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 ...
Gene markers located for hereditary prostate cancer
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, Wake Forest University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have identified an array of gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history ...
New drug lets kids feel good in their skin
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Maria Anichini, a 20-year-old junior at Columbia College, zipped up a fetching black lace cocktail dress with spaghetti straps to go out with friends the other night. Nothing out of the ordinary for most young women, but ...
Do today's young people really think they are so extraordinary?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 17, 2008 |
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When asked about the state of today’s youth, former president Jimmy Carter recently mused “I’ve been a professor at Emory University for the past twenty years and I interrelate with a wide range of students... I don’t detect ...
Just hours apart, 2 brothers undergo robotic prostate cancer surgery
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Two brothers from Savannah, Georgia diagnosed with prostate cancer flew to The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York to have lifesaving surgery on the same day this week. Dr. David B. Samadi, MD, Chief of Robotics and Minimally ...
Optical fibre: secure in all the chaos
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Secure messages hidden in chaotic waveforms, transmitted at up to 10 gigabits per second, is the vision behind a group of dedicated European researchers. Now they are prototyping the equipment that could make the vision a ...
