Why are there no Unicorns?
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Why are there no Unicorns? Perhaps horses develop in a way that cannot be easily modified to produce a Unicorn, so such creatures have never arisen. Or maybe Unicorn-like animals have been born in the past but because there ...
NIST atom interferometry displays new quantum tricks
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 25, 2007 |
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel way of making atoms interfere with each other, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while ...
Drinking 4 or more cups of coffee a day may help prevent gout
May 25, 2007 |
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Long-term study links increased coffee consumption to decreased risk of gout in men over age 40 Coffee is a habit for more than 50 percent of Americans, who drink, on average, 2 cups per day. This widel ...
New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 25, 2007 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, ...
Mapping the English language – from cockney to Orkney
May 25, 2007 |
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If they were Scousers they’d be “made up”; from the Black Country they’d be “bostin”. But researchers from the University of Leeds are naturally “well chuffed” to receive a £460,000 grant to examine and catalogue the dialects ...
Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 25, 2007 |
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In a fundamental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers here have reported that they have ...
Quantum Dots Reach Clinical Lab
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 25, 2007 |
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Bioconjugated quantum dots – luminescent nanoparticles linked to biological molecules – have shown great promise as tools for disease diagnosis and treatment, but their medical use has been limited by the lack of specific ...
Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin
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May 25, 2007 |
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The genome of the organism that produces the world’s most lethal toxin is revealed today. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum and less than 2 kg — the weight of two bags of sugar — is ...
Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 25, 2007 |
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[B]Work proceeding rapidly toward application for human trials[/B] Early-stage research has found that a new gene therapy can nearly eliminate arthritis pain, and significantly reduce long-term damage to the affected joi ...
MU study finds binge drinking among college students impaires decision-making ability
May 25, 2007 |
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People addicted to alcohol and young adults who are heavy drinkers, but not considered alcoholics, have something in common: they possess poor decision-making skills, according to psychologists at the University ...
Scientists Model Hepatitis C Virus
May 25, 2007 |
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One of the most common life-threatening viral infections in the United States today is hepatitis C virus (HCV). The standard treatment is successful in only about 50 percent of treated HCV chronic patients, with no effective ...
MIT-led team uncovers malaria mechanism
May 25, 2007 |
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During the first 24 hours of invasion by the malaria-inducing parasite Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cells start to lose their ability to deform and squeeze through tiny blood vessels-one of the hallmarks of the deadly ...
Most pediatric chemotherapy mistakes reach patients
May 25, 2007 |
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The vast majority of chemotherapy errors identified in children reach patients, according to one of the first epidemiological studies of cancer drug errors in children. Published in the July 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed ...
NIST antenna calibrations extended to 60-110 GHz
May 25, 2007 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new "tabletop" sized facility to improve characterization of antennas operating in the 60 to 110 gigahertz (GHz) frequency range. This extended frequency ...
ECP may be effective in treating Crohn's disease
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(Washington, DC - May 23, 2007) -- Results from an international multi-center Phase II clinical trial suggest that extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) may be effective in treating patients with clinically active (OR symptomatic) ...
