Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (50) | comments 0

In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...


Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (41) | comments 6

Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins.


Cancer 'cure' in mice to be tested in humans

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 2

Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice.


Complexity of Crohn's disease revealed as 'gene' count tops 30

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

New research has trebled the number of genetic regions known to be implicated in Crohn's disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease, to over thirty. The research, published today in the journal Nature Genetics, has id ...


Study shows how using mental strategies can alter the brain's reward circuitry

Technology / Other

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. ...


Researchers make promising finding in severe lung disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a novel function for an enzyme that plays a role in the tissue injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome, also known as ARDS.



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