A way to hear the electric car coming down the road
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"Close your eyes," engineering graduate student Bryan Bai called out from his Prius at the far end of the Tresidder parking lot, before the car began moving forward. A Toyota Prius runs silently on electric power until its ...
New vaccine approach prevents/reverses diabetes in lab study
May 28, 2008 |
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[B]Results of study are published in Diabetes, a journal of the American Diabetes Association[/B] Microspheres carrying targeted nucleic acid molecules fabricated in the laboratory have been shown to prevent and even rev ...
Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow Arm
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 28, 2008 |
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Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today.
US games developer makes quitting smoking child's play
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Smokers are about to get help in kicking the tobacco habit: an interactive computer game that aims to "coach" cigarette users away from their addition.
Family feuds -- why close relatives keep their distance in the animal kingdom
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Mammals cannot share their habitat with closely related species because the need for the same kind of food and shelter would lead them to compete to the death, according to new research out today in Proceedings of ...
Gene therapy increases survival for end-stage head and neck cancer
May 28, 2008 |
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A gene therapy invented at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is the first to succeed in a U.S. phase III clinical trial for cancer, as announced today at the American Society of Gene Therapy annual meeting ...
Protein Fibrils as Alternative Plastics?
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Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just pathological substances; they ...
Organic corn: Increasing rotation complexity increases yields
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While demand for organic meat and milk is increasing by about 20% per year in the United States, almost all organic grain and forage to support these industries in the mid-Atlantic region is imported from other regions. To ...
Researchers from 5 countries to test hygiene hypothesis
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Why do Finnish children have type 1 diabetes and allergic symptoms approximately 5 times more often than children in Russian Karelia?
Skin defects set off alarm with widespread and potentially harmful effects
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When patches of red, flaky and itchy skin on newborn mice led rapidly to their deaths, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis looked for the reason why. What they found was a molecular alarm ...
New insights into cellular reprogramming revealed by genomic analysis
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May 28, 2008 |
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The ability to drive somatic, or fully differentiated, human cells back to a pluripotent or “stem cell” state would overcome many of the significant scientific and social challenges to the use of embryo-derived stem cells ...
Keeping the rhythm of life in sync
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Beyond symbolically holding our feelings of love and compassion, the heart is a very efficient pump with a steady beat that provides the rhythm of life. Abnormal rhythm in the heart is a condition known as cardiac arrhythmia. ...
Marine chemist says 'not so fast' to quick oil detection method
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A new method for assessing environmental contamination after oil spills is in danger of being applied in situations where it doesn't work and might produce false conclusions, a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...
Secondhand smoke increases hospital admissions for all types of infectious diseases
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Children exposed to second hand tobacco smoke are more likely to get severe infectious diseases and have to be admitted to hospital, finds research published online ahead of print in Tobacco Control.
Statistical tool could explain gene study variations
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While scientists are using the human genome to associate certain genes with disease, Dr. Hongyan Xu wants to ensure they are accounting for natural variations in those genes.
