Apple’s New iPod shuffle Available Worldwide This Friday
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Apple’s new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest digital music player, will be available in stores this Friday, November 3. Nearly half the size of the original, the new iPod shuffle is just half a cubic inch ...
Scientists Convert Modern Enzyme into its Hypothesized Ancestor
Oct 31, 2006 |
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By making a single substitution in the amino acid sequence of a modern enzyme, scientists have changed its function into that of a theoretical distant ancestor, providing the first experimental evidence for ...
Mass copying of genes speeds up evolution
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Oct 31, 2006 |
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In the latest issue of PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Swedish-American team of researchers show how selective gene amplification-mass copying of a specific gene-can increase the speed with which ...
Fatty fish protects against prostate cancer
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Men who eat a lot of fatty fish run a lower risk of prostate cancer, concludes a new research paper from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). The effect is likely to be attributable to the abundance of omega-3 fatty acids, although ...
Public still suspicious of scientists
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‘Our arrogance cost us the GM debate’ is the message to academics and business delegates at the White Rose Bioscience Forum today (Tuesday 31 October).
New research house to guide future home development
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The University of Nottingham is helping to battle climate change on the home front -- with the construction of a new experimental house on campus that will cut 'greenhouse gas' emissions by 60 per cent.
Scientists discover two-component lantibiotic with therapeutic potential
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The discovery and preparation of a naturally occurring antibiotic could open the door to new therapeutic drugs for treating nasty infections.
Climate change tops Americans' environmental concerns, survey shows
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According to a recent MIT survey, Americans now rank climate change as the country's most pressing environmental problem-a dramatic shift from three years ago, when they ranked climate change sixth out of 10 environmental ...
Bacteria could make new library of cancer drugs that are too complex to create artificially
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick are examining a way of using bacteria to manufacture a new suite of potential anti-cancer drugs that are difficult to create synthetically on a lab bench.
Study: Some forest roads bad for wildlife
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A U.S. study suggests forest roads used for such activities as logging or mineral removal can negatively affect wildlife for long periods of time.
Study: Lies detrimental for the memory
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Dutch scientists say people who pretend they can not remember something -- lie about the subject - and negatively affect their real memories.
NASA Announces Another Comet Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2006 |
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NASA announced today that it has accepted the University of Maryland proposal to send the Deep Impact spacecraft on an extended mission to get a close-up look at Comet Boethin.
Analysis of Breast-Cancer Gene Role Offers Promising Target for Drugs to Stop Or Slow Progression
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have for the first time described how multiple copies of a gene are responsible for metastases in early-stage breast cancer and poor prognosis for patients.
Planning for failure makes better business sense, as long as it cheap and quick
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Biotech companies involved in drug development should plan for failure, rather than success, says Dr Wilding, of Ian Wilding Associates.
It's in your head: The brain's own globin defends you from shock and stroke
Oct 31, 2006 |
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The next generation of treatments for shock or stroke could be based on a protein that is already in our heads – neuroglobin. In a review article to be published in the November issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists from ...
