Novel gene-silencing nanoparticles shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma

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A novel delivery system that transports gene silencing nanoparticles into tumor cells has been shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma in an animal model of the disease. In this classic "Trojan horse" approach, a protein called tra ...


Geologists find a new active fault in Nepal, potentially links climate with mountain building

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A Dartmouth researcher is part of a team that has discovered a new active "thrust fault" at the base of the Himalaya in Nepal. This new fault likely accommodates some of the subterranean pressure caused by the continuing ...


SEMATECH Identifies Top Technical Challenges for 2006; Adds Transistor Scaling

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SEMATECH today announced its Top Technical Challenges for 2006, continuing to underscore advanced gate stack, 193 nm immersion and EUV lithography, mask infrastructure, and low-k dielectrics with process compatibility. Consortium ...


Signs Of Alien Asteroid Belt

Signs Of Alien Asteroid Belt

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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be the dusty spray of asteroids banging together in a belt that orbits a star like our sun. The discovery offers astronomers a rare glimpse at a distant ...


Toshiba: 20 Years in the Portable PC Market; Two New 'Ultra' Notebook PCs

Toshiba: 20 Years in the Portable PC Market; Two New 'Ultra' Notebook PCs

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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it would mark 20 years of innovation and leadership in portable personal computing with the launch of two series of 20th anniversary notebook PCs - "dynabook SS" series ...


Scientists Develop New Technology To Detect Cancer

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Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a breakthrough technology that identifies molecular markers in early lung cancer. The new technology, created in collaboration with SEQUENOM, developers of genetic ana ...


Extreme life discovery in Yellowstone bodes well for astrobiologists

Extreme life discovery in Yellowstone bodes well for astrobiologists

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pH value in rock pores where organisms live acidic enough to dissolve nails, say researchers University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say a bizarre group of microbes found living inside rocks in an in ...


Digital flag furled for home networks

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Fox Entertainment Group and IBM are working together on technology that will allow home networks to show copy-protected TV shows, while restricting the shows to their home market. Central to the issue is a broadcast "flag" ...


Elpida Begins Production of DDR2 SDRAM Using 90 nm Process Technology

Elpida Begins Production of DDR2 SDRAM Using 90 nm Process Technology

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Advanced Technology Contributes to Increased Capacity and Smaller Device Size Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it has started p ...


'Nano-bumps' could help repair clogged blood vessels

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Biomedical engineers at Purdue University have shown that "vascular stents" used to repair arteries might perform better if their surfaces contained "nano-bumps" that mimic tiny features found in living tissues. The researchers alr ...


Physicist dates lifetime of solar nebula at two million years

Physicist dates lifetime of solar nebula at two million years

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The oxygen and magnesium content of some of the oldest objects in the universe are giving clues to the lifetime of the solar nebula, the mass of dust and gas that eventually led to the formation of our solar ...


World-leading scientific databases now accessible via handhelds

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In an industry first, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) demonstrated the delivery of chemical information, including structures, via live interaction using BlackBerry and other handheld devices at the CAS European conference ...



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