Archive: 01/22/2009
Implants mimic infection to rally immune system against tumors
Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors.
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Living with females extends the reproductive life of the male mouse
Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School ...
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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How chemotherapy drugs block blood vessel growth, slow cancer spread
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer growth. Their findings, reported online this week at the Proceedings of ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Aeroacoustics Research Could Quiet Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in many fields. Ranging in size from the huge Global Hawk aircraft to hand-held machines, these remotely controlled ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Tax rebates not a quick fix for the economy
(PhysOrg.com) -- If last year's tax rebates are any indication, one-time payments from the government are a weak economic stimulus, say economists at the University of Michigan.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Severe Space Weather
Did you know a solar flare can make your toilet stop working?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Researchers Genetically Link Lou Gehrig's Disease in Humans to Dog Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- An incurable, paralyzing disease in humans is now genetically linked to a similar disease in dogs. Researchers from the University of Missouri and the Broad Institute have found that the genetic mutation ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Pieces Coming Together for First Test Launch of NASA's New Spacecraft
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is using powerful computers and software programs to design the rocket that will carry crew and cargo to space after the space shuttle retires. But those computers will have their work ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Lancets Flights Probe Supersonic Shockwaves
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Tiny lasers get a notch up
Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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NASA, NOAA set to launch NOAA-N Prime satellite
NASA is preparing to launch NOAA'S latest polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite, called NOAA-N Prime, providing an essential resource for NOAA's weather forecasts and improving the U.S. search ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Researcher decodes the language of memory cells in Science article
When an infection attacks, the body's immune system sounds the alert, kills the invading germs and remembers the pathogen to protect against contracting the same type of infection again. Exactly how immunological memory develops ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Scientists unlock possible aging secret in genetically altered fruit fly
Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process.
Biology /
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Pacific people spread from Taiwan
New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago.
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Genetic interactions are the key to understanding complex traits
In recent years, genetic studies have uncovered hundreds of DNA variations linked to common diseases, such as cancer or diabetes, raising the prospect that scientists can gauge disease risk based on information ...
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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