Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
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Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two unlikely links in the food web to ...
Tequila plant may provide colon relief
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Researchers in Mexico say compounds from the fruit used to make tequila may provide a more effective way to treat diseases of the colon.
Scientists identify a candidate gene for osteoporosis
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Today, researchers report the identification of a gene that may play a role in susceptibility to osteoporosis—the crippling disease that leads to bone fractures, especially of the hip and spine. The study, conducted by scientists ...
AMD Imageon Powers Up Cellphone Graphics
Mar 29, 2007 |
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At CTIA 2007, AMD showed off its latest series of Imageon graphics chipsets for cell phones.
Child's play is serious study of cause and effect
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 29, 2007 |
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It's not child's play to Laura E. Schulz, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, to figure out what child's play is all about.
Smokers make poorer workers
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Smokers perform worse at work than non-smokers, finds a study of US navy female service members published in Tobacco Control.
Biologists call for better choice of model organisms in 'evo-devo'
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Research in evolutionary developmental biology, known as ‘evo-devo’, is being held back because the dominant model organisms used by scientists are unable to illustrate key questions about evolution, argue biologists in the ...
Researcher examines polymers created with poultry feathers
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Biodegradable polymers created from poultry feathers may add value to the poultry industry and help solve the growing environmental problem of plastic waste.
Protein averts cell suicide but might contribute to cancer
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Scientists have discovered how an unusual protein helps a cell bypass damage when making new DNA, thereby averting the cell's self-destruction.
Startup VeryKool Targets U.S. Cell-Phone Market
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Many have tried, many have fallen. Count VeryKool amongst the eager new faces trying to break into the cell-phone market.
Kyocera Melts, Squirts Steel to Make New Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Forget reinventing the phone. Kyocera decided to reinvent the steel molecule for a radical new hinge on their E5000 design phone announced here at the CTIA trade show.
Gladstone scientists identify critical gene factor in heart development
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) announced they have identified a critical genetic factor in the control of many aspects of heart form and function. As reported in the journal Cell, ...
Researchers identify critical receptor in liver regeneration
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In studies in mouse models, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have found that a cellular receptor involved in triggering cell death is also a necessary component ...
Scientists Derive First Bottom-Up Determination of Air-Sea Momentum Transfer Under a Major Hurricane
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory - Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC) have directly derived the air-sea momentum exchange at the ocean interface using observed ocean currents under Hurricane Ivan and ...
Warm winter also in the Arctic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Central Europe is not the only place where the past, warm winter has caused record temperatures. Unusually mild temperatures also prevented ice formation in the Arctic, specifically in the region around Spitsbergen. ...
