Researchers Capture Images that Illuminate One of Cell's Mysteries
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Within human cells, tiny membrane-bound compartments called vesicles shepherd biomolecules from place to place.
Cancer researchers call for ethnicity to be taken into account
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in today's Lancet (18 July) by researchers from Imperial Colleg ...
New approach to cancer: Find most tightly controlled genes
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Scientists at a Duke University medical school in Singapore have found a new way to study cancer that could be very useful for developing targeted therapies against cancer and possibly many other diseases.
The International Space Station, a test-bed for future space exploration
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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The Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation.
Calcium may be the key to understanding Alzheimer's disease
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called ...
Suckling infants trigger surges of trust hormone in mothers' brains
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Researchers from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with other universities and institutes in Edinburgh, France and Italy, have for the first time been able to show exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's ...
Researchers explore the genetic basis of social behavior in ants
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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Understanding how interactions between genes and the environment influence social behavior is a fundamental research goal. In a new study, researchers at the University of Lausanne and the University of Georgia have shed ...
3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the ...
HIV conquers immune system faster than previously realized
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 18, 2008 |
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New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. According to scientists at Duke ...
The benefits of a little resistance for older adults
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University of Queensland research is showing the benefits of resistance training in keeping older Australians in tip top form.
Studies refute common stereotypes about obese workers
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New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their "normal weight" colleagues.
Novel computational model describes the speed at which HIV escapes the immune response
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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Researchers from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, have developed a model that illustrates how HIV evades the immune system. The study, published July 18th in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, incorp ...
New indicator uncovered that can predict coral health
Jul 18, 2008 |
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A new indicator of coral health has been discovered in a community of microscopic single-celled algae called dinoflagellates. The study, released in the July 8th edition of the journal Proceedings of the Na ...
Researchers discover primary sensor that detects stomach viruses
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Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the primary immune sensor that detects the presence of stomach viruses in the body. They show that the sensor – a protein called MDA-5 – ...
Doctors are key to tackling knife violence, says expert
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Every hospital emergency department should share information about violent incidents with local crime reduction agencies to tackle the problem of knife crime, says an expert in this week's BMJ.
