Cutting caffeine may help control diabetes
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Daily consumption of caffeine in coffee, tea or soft drinks increases blood sugar levels for people with type 2 diabetes and may undermine efforts to control their disease, say scientists at Duke University Medical Center.
Researchers map signaling networks that control neuron function
Jan 28, 2008 |
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In the first large-scale proteomics study of its kind, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have mapped thousands of neuronal proteins to discover how they connect into ...
Scientists bring MRI/NMR to microreactors
Jan 28, 2008 |
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In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
Over-the-counter eardrops may cause hearing loss or damage
Jan 28, 2008 |
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A new study, led by researchers at The Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) of the MUHC, has revealed that certain over-the-counter earwax softeners can cause severe inflammation and damage to the eardrum and inner ear. The ...
Two microRNAs promote spread of tumor cells
Jan 28, 2008 |
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The more scientists learn about microRNAs – short strands of RNA that can interfere with normal gene activity – the more obvious it becomes how closely they are associated with cancer. In a new study, scientists at The Wistar ...
Genetic Material under a Magnifying Glass
Jan 28, 2008 |
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The genetic alphabet contains four letters. Although our cells can readily decipher our genetic molecules, it isn’t so easy for us to read a DNA sequence in the laboratory. Scientists require complex, highly sophisticated ...
Toward a cleaner, more effective method for destroying hormone-like pollutants in wastewater
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Researchers report effectiveness of a powerful, environmentally-friendly catalyst in destruction of various estrogens that currently escape complete removal in our wastewater treatment plants. Their study is scheduled for ...
Wiping out the coffee-ring effect advances inkjet printing of electronic circuits
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Researchers in California report a key advance in efforts to use inkjet printing technology in the manufacture of a new generation of low cost, high-performance electronic circuits for flexible video displays ...
Secret of the carnivorous pitcher plant's slurp -- solved at last
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Jan 28, 2008 |
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Splash! Ooch! Yum! And so another unsuspecting insect victim of Nepenthes alata (N. alata), commonly known as the carnivorous pitcher plant, falls victim to the digestive fluids at the bottom of the plant's ...
Optical Physicist Publishes on Optical Coherence and Polarization
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Optical Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester, and co-author of one of the most cited science books of the 20th century, Principles of Optics, has released a new book ...
New study finds resistant organisms at core of soft contact lens corneal infections
Jan 28, 2008 |
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In 2006, Bausch & Lomb withdrew its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution because a high proportion of corneal infections were associated with it. Now in a new study from University Hospitals Case Medical Center, researchers ...
Making (accurate predictions of) waves
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2008 |
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A new review of tsunami hazards concludes that the 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands -- and notes that warning systems to guard at-risk populations are still ...
Tiny avalanche photodiode detects single UV photons
Jan 28, 2008 |
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In a significant breakthrough, researchers at Northwestern University’s Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) have demonstrated visible-blind avalanche photodiodes (APDs) capable of detecting single photons in the ultraviolet ...
Baffin Island ice caps shrink by 50 percent since 1950s, study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2008 |
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result ...
Device zeroes in on small breast tumors
Jan 28, 2008 |
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A new medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumors that are half the size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems, according to a ...
