Light shone within brains of mice reveals secrets of sleep-wake cycle
Oct 19, 2007 |
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By flickering a special light inside the brains of sleeping mice to wake them up, Stanford researchers have shown that they can induce behavior in a living mammal by directly controlling specific neural cells. In so doing, ...
Clinical trial evaluating brain cancer vaccine is underway
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A clinical trial evaluating a brain cancer vaccine in patients with newly diagnosed brain cancer has begun at NYU Medical Center. The study will evaluate the addition of the vaccine following standard therapy with surgery ...
Engineer aims to regulate varying wind power
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As Texas' electric grid operator prepares to add power lines for carrying future wind-generated energy, an electrical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin is developing improved methods for determining ...
Reading minds to save lives
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, but some are reluctant to undergo screening despite the fact that regular screening saves lives.
Influenza spreads readily in winter conditions
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Low temperatures and relative humidities have been linked to the rapid spread of influenza in a new study by researchers, led by Dr. Peter Palese, from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The study, published in PLoS Pa ...
Confining the data explosion
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Oct 19, 2007 |
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More simulation also requires more space on the hard disk – no prob-lem for the new compression software. The volume of data for crash and weather simulations is shrunk to as little as a tenth of its original size.
Columbus hatch closed for last time
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Oct 19, 2007 |
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Preparations of the European Columbus laboratory took an important step earlier this week with the final closure of the module’s hatch ahead of the December launch to the International Space Station.
Six staph cases reported in North Carolina
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School officials in Winston-Salem, N.C., said six football players at East Forsyth High School were found to have drug-resistant staph infections.
Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta's Earth approach
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Oct 19, 2007 |
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Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to 'fine tune' the spacecraft's approach to Earth. ...
Transgenics transformed
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Oct 19, 2007 |
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A new method of constructing artificial plant chromosomes from small rings of naturally occurring plant DNA can be used to transport multiple genes at once into embryonic plants where they are expressed, duplicated as plant ...
Court ruling hurts asbestos workers
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Welsh factory workers who suffer scarring of the lung tissue from asbestos may have lost their right to file for compensation.
Scientists find predisposition to bronchiolitis in some babies
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Scientists have found that a large proportion of infants who suffer from bronchiolitis have an inherent pre-disposition to the disease.
Study looks at metal baseball bat safety
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Baseball players who use alloy bats are no more likely to be injured than those using wooden bats, a study in Illinois found.
Crew in Florida, Launch Set for Tuesday
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2007 |
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The Shuttle Training Aircraft carrying the STS-120 astronauts touched down at 1:18 p.m. EDT on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
New malaria drug works in infants
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Scientists say a new malaria vaccine being tested in Mozambique was successful in protecting infants less than 1 year old.
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