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 ...
Why are there no Unicorns?
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May 25, 2007 |
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New NIST reference material for peptide analysis
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May 25, 2007 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first-ever reference material designed to improve the performance and reliability of experiments to measure the masses and concentrations of peptides ...
A psychological approach to the management of irritable bowel syndrome
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 25, 2007 |
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Antidepressants and psychological treatments such as hypnotherapy have the potential to help patients with severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), say researchers in this week’s BMJ.
Aggressive treatment for whiplash does not promote faster recovery
May 25, 2007 |
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Whiplash, the most common traffic injury, leads to neck pain, headache and other symptoms, resulting in a significant burden of disability and health care utilization. Although there are few effective treatments for whiplash, ...
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 ...
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 ...
