Researchers target multiple sclerosis
Nov 22, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they have developed a substance that inhibits the progress of multiple sclerosis in an animal model.
Social relationships affect personality of fish, say experts
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Nov 22, 2006 |
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Fish who display bold or shy personality traits are influenced by watching the behaviour of others, University of Liverpool researchers have found.
Researchers gaze at cloud formations
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Finnish researchers analyzing cloud formations say ozone destruction in the Earth's stratosphere might be occurring at a faster pace than thought.
Patterns on tropical marine mollusc shell mirror gene expression patterns
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Nov 22, 2006 |
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Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and colour patterns on the shell of the tropical marine mollusc referred to as ‘abalone’. A study published today in the open ...
Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Children who were allergic to eggs were able to essentially overcome their allergy by gradually consuming increased quantities of eggs over time, researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Arkansas ...
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance observes inhibitors bound to enzymes
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Nov 22, 2006 |
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A team of researchers led by Professor Paul Malthouse, principal investigator with the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology and UCD Conway Institute, uses state-of-the-art NMR equipment to study a range ...
NIST Test Fans the Flames for High-Rise Fire Safety
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Reseearchers from NIST, the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Housing Authority recently set controlled fires in an abandoned Chicago apartment building to test a new fire-fighting technique -- using ...
Scientists find genetic oddity protects sex cells
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Researchers have found that a class of RNA molecules previously thought to have no function may in fact protect sex cells from self-destructing.
Parkinson's mutation stunts neurons
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Mutations in a key brain protein known to underlie a form of Parkinson's disease wreaks its damage by stunting the normal growth and branching of neurons, researchers have found. They have pinpointed the malfunction of the ...
Researcher talks turkey on Thanksgiving dinner droop
Nov 22, 2006 |
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When it comes to the myth that Thanksgiving dinner makes us sleepy, Judith Wurtman takes the side of the big roast bird.
ESA to produce first space Web video chat
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2006 |
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The European Space Agency and T-Online, a German Internet service provider, are going to produce the world's first space Web video chat.
Plague proteome reveals proteins linked to infection
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Recreating growth conditions in flea carriers and mammal hosts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have uncovered 176 proteins and likely proteins in the plague-bacterium Yersinia pestis whose numbers rise ...
Getting to the heart of the heart
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Helping to change scientists' thinking about how the heart is formed, investigators at Children's Hospital Boston have identified a type of stem cell that gives rise to at least two different cell types that make up the heart's ...
Watching TV Can Improve Parenting And Child Behaviour
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Watching television parenting programmes like ITV's Driving Mum and Dad Mad really can help improve parenting skills and modify children's behavioural problems, according to a study at The University of Manchester.
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