Self-Assembled Materials Form Mini Stem Cell Lab
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Imagine having one polymer and one small molecule that instantly assemble into a flexible but strong sac in which you can grow human stem cells, creating a sort of miniature laboratory. And that sac, if used ...
Cooperative classrooms lead to better friendships, higher achievement in young adolescents
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Students competing for resources in the classroom while discounting each others’ success are less likely to earn top grades than students who work together toward goals and share their success, according to an analysis of ...
Increased knowledge about global warming leads to apathy, study shows
Mar 27, 2008 |
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The more you know the less you care – at least that seems to be the case with global warming. A telephone survey of 1,093 Americans by two Texas A&M University political scientists and a former colleague indicates that trend, ...
Astrotechnology Brings Nanoparticle Probes Into Sharper Focus
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 27, 2008 |
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While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nanosize probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, two investigators at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology made an ...
Folate scores a win in animal studies: Brief, high doses of B vitamin blunt damage from heart attack
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Long known for its role in preventing anemia in expectant mothers and spinal birth defects in newborns, the B vitamin folate, found in leafy green vegetables, beans and nuts has now been shown to blunt the damaging effects ...
Dramatic developments at Kilauea Volcano: Scientists work to keep public safe and informed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Explosive eruptions and noxious gas emissions at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii this week have prompted scientists to work around the clock to understand what will happen next and how to keep the public out of harm’s way.
Under the sea
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2008 |
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For the first time scientists have mapped the layers of once molten rock that lie beneath the edges of the Atlantic Ocean and measure over eight miles thick in some locations.
Normal weight obesity: An emerging risk factor for heart and metabolic problems
Mar 27, 2008 |
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More than half of American adults considered to have normal body weight in America have high body fat percentages -- greater than 20 percent for men and 30 percent for women -- as well as heart and metabolic disturbances, ...
U of T research finds glycine could be key to REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
Mar 27, 2008 |
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There is new promise on the horizon for those who suffer from REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
Saving cancer patients' skin
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Becky Sasaki has the quick laugh and easy smile of a woman who continues to thrive despite her four-year wrestling match with lung cancer. She still works every day in the family business, heads out for Thai food with her ...
Army looks to hydrogen to lighten soldiers' load
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are developing a portable, hydrogen-generating power system to power everything from laptops to communications gear for soldiers in the battlefield.
Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Finding a simple and convenient technique that combines nanoscale structural measurements and chemical identification has been an elusive goal. With current analytical instruments, spatial resolution is too low, signal-to-noise ...
Relaxation training may improve control of hard-to-treat systolic hypertension
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Adding the relaxation response, a stress-management approach, to other lifestyle interventions may significantly improve treatment of the type of hypertension most common in the elderly. Among participants in a study conducted ...
Mercury's shifting, rolling past
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Patterns of scalloped-edged cliffs or lobate scarps on Mercury's surface are thrust faults that are consistent with the planet shrinking and cooling with time. However, compression occurred in the planet's ...
Scientists test new prostate disease drug
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 27, 2008 |
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A Canadian-headquartered biopharmaceutical company is conducting the second Phase 3 study of a new drug designed to treat prostate disease.
