Researchers identify new drug targets for cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Solving a 100-year-old genetic puzzle, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have determined that the same genetic mechanism that drives tumor growth can also act as a tumor suppressor. ...


How many genes does it take to learn?

How many genes does it take to learn? Lessons from sea slugs

Biology /

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Scientists analyzing the genomics of a marine snail have gotten an unprecedented look at brain mechanisms, discovering that the neural processes in even a simple sea creature are far from sluggish.


Illustration of DESI Technique

Technique quickly identifies bacteria for food safety

Chemistry /

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers at Purdue University have used a new technique to rapidly detect and precisely identify bacteria, including dangerous E. coli, without time-consuming treatments usually required.


Siberian Hamsters

Sex Ends as Seasons Shift and Kisspeptin Levels Plummet

Biology /

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley ...


Safety experts ill-equipped to handle nanotechnology in workplace

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A strategic plan and more resources for risk research are needed now in order to ensure safe nano-workplaces today and in the future. That is the conclusion of Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Chief Science Advisor Andrew ...


Opening Microtubule

Roadworks on the motorways of the cell

Biology /

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A cell is a busy place. In a permanent rush hour, molecules are transported along a dynamic motorway system made up of filaments called microtubules. Microtubules constantly grow and shrink and are rapidly ...


New York dialysis care named worst

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

U.S. government records charge that dialysis care in New York is among the worst in the country.


British soldiers reach South Pole

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 28, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A team of British military personnel has become the first service members to visit the South Pole in nearly 100 years.



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