Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure
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Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than three ...
Metabolic syndrome -- don't blame the belly fat
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Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: prediabetes, ...
Sequencing method yields fuller picture
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University of Southern California biologists have developed a method for sequencing both chromosomes of an organism.
Universal flu vaccine being tested on humans
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A universal influenza vaccine that has been pioneered by researchers from VIB and Ghent University (Belgium) is being tested for the first time on humans by the British-American biotech company Acambis. This vaccine is intended ...
New ink sampling technique taking a bite of out time
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Researchers at the Midwest Forensics Resource Center at Iowa State University are building a library of ink profiles to help forensic scientists identify inks on fraudulent documents and other evidence. MFRC scientists will ...
Would you like fries with that?
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Exploiting interactions between food and drugs could dramatically lower the rapidly rising costs of several anticancer drugs, and perhaps many other medications, two cancer-pharmacology specialists suggest in a commentary ...
SMS your ECG to ER
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A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience's International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. The ...
Penn researchers identify new combination therapy that promotes cancer cell death
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Philadelphia -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine identified a combination therapy as a way to sensitize resistant human cancer cells to a treatment currently being tested in clinical trials ...
Russian firm besieged with rocket orders
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has received 14 orders for the Proton carrier rockets the firm manufactures.
Norway's Puffin chicks lack food
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Very few puffin chicks born this year on the Norwegian island of Rost are expected to survive due to shortages of the birds' food source.
FDA approves cervical disk device
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced approval of the first device designed to treat cervical degenerative disc disease.
Device helps physically disabled turn on computer
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More than 14 million Americans under age 64 have a physical disability, according to the 2005 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. A large percentage of these persons have little or no use of their hands to ...
Flavonoids in orange juice make it a healthy drink, despite the sugar
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Orange juice, despite its high caloric load of sugars, appears to be a healthy food for diabetics due to its mother lode of flavonoids, a study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown. The study appeared ...
Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
Jul 17, 2007 |
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A research with experimental rats carried out by the Institute of Neuroscience of the UAB describes the brain region connected to how our declarative memory functions.
Study finds hereditary link to premenstrual depression
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A specific genetic variation may be tied to an increased risk for severe premenstrual depression, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health have found.
