How adhesive protein causes malaria
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Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) have identified the biochemical mechanism behind the adhesive protein that give rise ...
NVIDIA Delivers First Modern Motherboard GPU to Intel-Based Desktops
Sep 25, 2007 |
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The recent introduction of Microsoft Vista and a slew of other 3D-optimized applications, including Google Maps and Microsoft Office 2007, has redefined customers' expectations for experiencing visually-rich mainstream applications ...
NASA Spacecraft Is a 'Go' for Asteroid Beltbrics
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Sept. 27 liftoff from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Dawn mission. The Dawn spacecraft will venture into the ...
Research warns that human papillomavirus might cause bladder cancer
Sep 25, 2007 |
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The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is considered the cause of one of the most important sexually transmitted diseases nowadays, and affects both men and women. HPV is so common in our society that only people who have never had ...
Biologists link Huntington's disease to health benefits in young
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For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral changes associated with the disease that lead to sexual promiscuity.
Online game feeds music search engine project at UC San Diego
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2007 |
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UC San Diego electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts (like the senior author’s mom) to find the kind of music ...
City birds better than rural species in coping with human disruption
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Birds that hang out in large urban areas seem to have a marked advantage over their rural cousins – they are adaptable enough to survive in a much larger range of conditions.
Studies: Children obese due to a host of unhealthy pressures
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Unhealthy options and pressures influence nearly every part of children's daily lives, according to studies released this week in a special supplement of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
Computer science faculty explore thermal-aware computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Kirk Cameron and Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, associate professors of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, have earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) – Computer Science Research (CSR) award of ...
Lymph nodes can be key in spreading prion infectivity
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Lymph nodes can be crucial for spreading low doses of infective prion agents -the pathogens responsible for conditions such as scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - into the nervous system, according to new research published ...
Baby booms and birth control in space
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Stars in galaxies are a bit similar to people: during the first phase of their existence they grow rapidly, after which a stellar birth control occurs in most galaxies. Thanks to new observations from Dutch ...
IMAX Camera Returns to Space to Chronicle Hubble Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2007 |
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IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Monday that, in cooperation with NASA, the IMAX 3D camera is scheduled to return to space in 2008 aboard the space shuttle during STS-125 for production ...
Stem cells show promise for treating Huntington's disease
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Paying close attention to how a canary learns a new song has helped scientists open a new avenue of research against Huntington’s disease – a fatal disorder for which there is currently no cure or even a treatment to slow ...
Nokia answers convergence call with Nokia 6301 UMA phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 25, 2007 |
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With a sleek stainless steel design, the Nokia 6301 phone launched today is not only stylish, but offers consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks via Unlicensed Mobile ...
Explorer completes the map... for the body's blueprint
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An Australian researcher has completed some pioneering work which is the cellular equivalent of the human genome project.
