Genetic mutation identified for eye complaint 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane ... | |
 COROT's new find orbits Sun-like star 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 ... | |
 Scientists break record by finding northernmost hydrothermal vent field 11 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents – one towering nearly four stories in height – are venting ... | |
Officials: Search for HIV vaccine needs overhaul 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Scientists will have to take "enormous intellectual leaps" to develop an AIDS vaccine in the coming years, say researchers clearly frustrated by the failure of a once-promising shot. | |
Telescope embedded in glasses lens promises to make driving easier for visually impaired 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision. Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists describe the advantages ... | |
Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study 11 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Age may not be rust after all. Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup ... | |
Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, ... | |
 Adult stem cells activated in mammalian brain 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adult stem cells originate in a different part of the brain than is commonly believed, and with proper stimulation they can produce new brain cells to replace those lost to disease or injury, ... | |
 Circadian rhythm-metabolism link discovered 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
UC Irvine researchers have found a molecular link between circadian rhythms – our own body clock – and metabolism. The discovery reveals new possibilities for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and other related ... | |
Mindfulness meditation slows progression of HIV, study shows 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes ... | |
 Russian scientists begin trial exploration of world's deepest lake 10 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Russian scientists leading a submarine expedition to probe the world's deepest lake on Thursday carried out test dives ahead of the start of the operation next week, reports said. | |
A new cellular pathway linked to cancer is identified 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
In the life of a cell, the response to DNA damage determines whether the cell is fated to pause and repair itself, commit suicide, or grow uncontrollably, a route leading to cancer. In a new study, published in the July 25th ... | |
Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo board 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 ... | |
Researchers identify gene responsible for rare childhood disease 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The chromosomal abnormality that causes a rare, but often fatal, disorder that affects infants has been identified by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who happened to treat two young ... | |
 Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery' 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit ‘surgery’ on two ailing science instruments ... | |
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