Archive: 11/20/2006
Advance helps explain stem cell behavior
Biochemists at Oregon State University have developed a new method to identify the "DNA-binding transcription factors" that help steer stem cells into forming the wide variety of cells that ultimately make up all the organs ...
Biology /
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Fraud exposes British to mad cow disease
Inspectors in Britain believe widespread fraud at slaughterhouses may be exposing the public to meat contaminated with mad cow disease.
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Rapid shift in natural selection reported
U.S. evolutionary scientists say they have found evolution as a process can occur during eons or within months as a population's needs change.
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Scientists rank top 10 U.S. quake states
Seismologists at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory have ranked the United States' most-earthquake-prone states and found Alaska is No. 1.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2006 |
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British judge orders test of wake-up drug
The senior family court judge in Britain turned down a request to stop feeding a woman in a vegetative state and allow her to die.
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Lasers Let Scientists Test Gene Function in Butterfly Wings
The University at Buffalo team that developed the world's first transgenic butterfly now has developed an innovative tool that will allow scientists studying "non-model" organisms to test directly the function ...
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Nov 20, 2006 |
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Supercomputer study shows Milky Way's halo of dark matter in unprecedented detail
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA's most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelopes ...
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Generic Method Links Quantum Dots to Proteins
Quantum dots are rapidly becoming biomedical researchers’ tool of choice for adding a fluorescent label to a wide variety of biomolecules. Now, thanks to work from a multi-institutional team of investigators, researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Extraordinary life found around deep-sea gas seeps
An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand's east coast.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Oceanographers Explain the Origins of Tampa Bay
What made Tampa Bay Tampa Bay? Geological oceanographer Al Hine and colleagues Beau Suthard and Stan Locker of the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science explain the origins of Tampa Bay’s bottom, which dates ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Twin Star Explosions Fascinate Astronomers
Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite stumbled upon a rare sight, two supernovas side by side in one galaxy. Large galaxies typically play host to three supernovas per century.
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Researchers develop novel method to find new antibiotics
Bacteria are a cunning foe; at a worrisome rate, they are developing resistance to the current arsenal of antibiotic drugs. Without new drugs, society may be approaching a world reminiscent of the pre-antibiotic era, when ...
Nov 20, 2006 |
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UMC Produces Working 45-nanometer ICs
UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometer SRAM chips that feature an impressive bit cell size of less than 0.25um2. The ICs, produced using UMC's ...
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Honeybee genome to enable genetic study of social behaviour
Oxford researchers are part of a global consortium that has sequenced the genome of the honeybee, publishing the results in Nature. It is first social insect to have its genetic instructions decoded, offeri ...
Biology /
Nov 20, 2006 |
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New spin on electrons could improve lights, other devices
Troy Van Voorhis likes to watch how things work. This natural curiosity led to his current research on the behavior of electrons and how they function in various molecular systems, including artificial photosynthesis. ...
Nov 20, 2006 |
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