Archive: 01/20/2008
Study: Brain connections strengthen during waking hours, weaken during sleep
Most people know it from experience: After so many hours of being awake, your brain feels unable to absorb any more-and several hours of sleep will refresh it.
Jan 20, 2008 |
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Stem-cell transplantation improves muscles in MD animal model
Using embryonic stem cells from mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have prompted the growth of healthy – and more importantly, functioning – muscle cells in mice afflicted with a human model ...
Jan 20, 2008 |
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New technology sharpens X-ray vision
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the EPFL in Switzerland have developed a novel method for producing dark-field x-ray images at wavelengths used in typical medical and industrial imaging ...
Jan 20, 2008 |
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First evidence of under-ice volcanic eruption in Antarctica
The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica’s most rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature Geosciences. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2008 |
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DNA variations signal lupus risk
Scientists have pinpointed a set of common variations in human DNA that signal a higher risk for lupus in women who carry them. Some of these variations are more common in relatives of lupus patients, which may help future ...
Jan 20, 2008 |
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Life-saving plants at risk of extinction
Hundreds of plants used to produce more than 50 percent of the world's prescription drugs are at risk of becoming extinct, researchers say.
Biology /
Jan 20, 2008 |
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Report warns of rise in Mediterranean
Both sea levels and temperatures in the Mediterranean have been rising since the 1970s, Spanish scientists report.
Jan 20, 2008 |
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Ion engine to propel spacecraft to Mercury
British space experts have been given the green light to start building a Star Trek-like engine for a Mercury-bound spacecraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2008 |
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