Researchers transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle cells
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA today announced they have transformed adult stem cells taken from human adipose – or fat tissue ...
Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on Stars
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround.
Nano probe may open new window into cell behavior
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 24, 2006 |
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To create drugs capable of targeting some of the most devastating human diseases, scientists must first decode exactly how a cell or a group of cells communicates with other cells and reacts to a broad spectrum ...
Pine Plantations May Be One Culprit in Increasing Carbon Dioxide Levels
Jul 24, 2006 |
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The increasing number of pine plantations in the southern United States could contribute to a rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, a new study reports. This is important because carbon dioxide is a key greenhouse ...
Fullerenes Yield Stable, Powerful MR Imaging Agent
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Fullerenes, the soccer ball-shaped spheres of carbon that helped usher in the nanotechnology era, have been touted as versatile containers for delivering drugs and other clinically useful molecules to tumors. Turning promise ...
Study: People use 'verbal gestures'
Jul 24, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they've determined people spontaneously use a system of "verbal gestures" when they speak.
When biology gets 'Quirky', scientists turn to math
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Ohio State University researchers who are trying to solve a longstanding mystery in chemistry and biology are getting answers from a seemingly unusual source: mathematics. Ultimately, the project could provide a tool for ...
FDA issues bismacine-chromacine warning
Jul 24, 2006 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers and healthcare providers not to use a product called bismacine, also known as chromacine.
In Brief: Chocolate bars may have caused disease
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Cadbury's, one of the best-known British brands, has been linked to an outbreak of salmonella in Britain.
Image spam grows to 20 percent of spam
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E-mail spam that relies on images to make it difficult to filter now encompasses 21 percent of all spam, said IronPort Systems, a San Bruno, Calif., company.
Archaeologist: Cattle first kept in Sahara
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 24, 2006 |
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An archaeologist who has spent decades studying sites in the Sahara says nomads who roamed the area millennia ago were the first to domesticate cattle.
Study pinpoints protein's role in cancer spread
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Edinburgh scientists have identified the way a specific cell protein can trigger the spread of cancer. The study by researchers in the Cell Signalling Unit, University of Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre could pave the way ...
Fuel cells, a neglected clean source of energy
Jul 24, 2006 |
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In a situation where the UK is crying out for reliable sources of energy that do not threaten the environment, one option, the hydrogen fuel cell has been relatively neglected through insufficient support from industry and ...
Networking: Protecting your MP3s
Jul 24, 2006 |
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You probably have a lot of MP3 files -- like the smash hit "Crazy" by the U.K.'s Gnarls Barkley -- on your PC. Maybe some oldies too, and a lot of other computer files, with extensions like .EXE, .MPEG, .JPEG, and other, ...
Turning on the rural broadband tap...
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Between 25 and 40 per cent of Europeans have no affordable, effective access to the 1s and 0s that constitute the ABCs of the rapidly emerging knowledge economy. The figure used depends on the definition of 'rural', but there ...
