Disruption of immune-system pathway key step in cancer progression
May 18, 2009 |
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Human immune cells communicate constantly with one another as they coordinate to fight off infection and other threats. Now researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine have shown that muffling a key voice in this ...
Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is becaus ...
Scientists discover neurons that 'mirror' the attention of others
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
Arctic river deltas may hold clues to future global climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2009 |
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Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information—sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville ...
Wake up and smell the coffee -- on the Moon!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2009 |
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Have you ever wondered how you'd make your morning cup of java if you lived on another planet, or perhaps the moon? That steaming beverage would be a must on a cold lunar morning.
Biological link established between tumors and depression
May 18, 2009 |
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In a study that could help explain the connections between depression and cancer, researchers at the University of Chicago have used an animal model to find, for the first time, a biological link between tumors and negative ...
New insight into primate eye evolution
May 18, 2009 |
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Researchers comparing the fetal development of the eye of the owl monkey with that of the capuchin monkey have found that only a minor difference in the timing of cell proliferation can explain the multiple anatomical differences ...
Key to potential new treatment for allergy-induced asthma identified
May 18, 2009 |
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In research that could lead to new asthma drugs, scientists at Yale School of Medicine, Hydra Biosciences of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of California, San Francisco have discovered that a protein may be ...
Synthetic catalyst mimics nature's 'hydrogen economy'
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 18, 2009 |
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By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.
Microsoft Incorporates Virtual WiFi Technology into Windows 7
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual WiFi will enable Windows 7 and future operating systems to see a single WLAN adapter as multiple WLAN adapters by the operating system. This feature is available in Windows 7 RC1, ...
Summer haze has a cooling effect in southeastern United States
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming may include some periods of local cooling, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Results from satellite and ground-based sensor data show that sweltering ...
New tool for next-generation cancer treatments using nanodiamonds
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 18, 2009 |
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A research team at Northwestern University has demonstrated a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells.
Astronauts take final spacewalk for Hubble repairs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Monday to finish repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, never to be touched by human hands again.
Researchers make discovery in colon cancer prevention
May 18, 2009 |
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A new study finds that individuals who have low expression of the "Celebrex gene," 15-PGDH, are actually resistant to Celebrex treatment when used to prevent colon cancer. The study, published in this week's issue of the ...
How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the produc ...
