Notebooks Become Head-Turning Works of Art
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 19, 2007 |
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Sony today unveiled the VAIO Graphic Splash Maya Hayuk Edition notebooks featuring designs from New York-based, emerging artist, Maya Hayuk. These limited edition PCs are available in two head-turning designs—“Grow” ...
Selective attention increases both gain and feature selectivity of the human auditory cortex
Sep 19, 2007 |
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On Sept. 19, a research report by Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering scientists will appear in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, showing that selective attention increases both ...
Brain center for 'sound space' identified
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While the visual regions of the brain have been intensively mapped, many important regions for auditory processing remain terra incognita. Now, researchers have identified the region responsible for a key auditory process—perceiving ...
Metagenomics of the deep Mediterranean
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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Metagenomics is a revolutionary approach to study microbes. Rather than isolating pure cultures, the power of high-throughput sequencing is applied directly to environmental samples to obtain information about the genomes ...
New U.S. chemical screening center to open
Sep 19, 2007 |
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A new U.S. chemical screening center designed to perform up to 30,000 experiments a day is to open Friday at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
Energy Department patent Web site launched
Sep 19, 2007 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy has launched a Web site that allows search and retrieval of information involving more than 20,000 department patents.
Smithsonian identifies invasive crab species in Panama Canal expansion area
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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A Smithsonian scientist and colleague report that a potentially harmful, invasive crab species that has spread to several countries is now established and reproducing in Panama. The researchers report that ...
Purdue University to display moon rock
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2007 |
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Purdue University will soon be the home of a moon rock, thanks to the widow of U.S. astronaut and Purdue alumnus Roger Chaffee.
Brown scientists take the petri dish to new dimensions
Sep 19, 2007 |
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A team of Brown University biomedical engineers has invented a 3-D Petri dish that can grow cells in three dimensions, a method that promises to quickly and cheaply produce more realistic cells for drug development ...
Accounting Procedures Act Changing How Foreign Firms Converge Toward U.S. Regulations, Study Finds
Sep 19, 2007 |
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Finance research has demonstrated that in the global economy, non-U.S. firms benefit from convergence toward U.S. market and legal regulations. University of Arkansas researchers have examined the relative advantages of the ...
Prediction of RNA pseudoknots using heuristic modeling with mapping and sequential folding
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An algorithm utilizing structure mapping and thermodynamics is introduced for RNA pseudoknot prediction. The method finds the minimum free energy in the context of the biological folding direction (5’ to 3’) of RNA sequences.
Cervical cancer screening: Too many are left unprotected
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The decline in cervical cancer is a success story of cancer research. Although there are reasons to be optimistic about even further decreases in cervical cancer incidence, there still remain some women who are not screened. ...
Researchers provide genetic associations from a genome-wide scan for cardiovascular disease traits
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), have completed analyses of a genome-wide scan on a ...
Pregnancy may slow -- not accelerate -- progression to AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 19, 2007 |
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A new study may help put to rest fears that pregnancy accelerates progression to full-blown AIDS in women with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy. The study, published in the October 1st issue of the Journal of Infectious ...
