http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Re-engineering a protein that helps prevent tumours spreading and growing has created a potentially powerful therapy for people with many different types of cancer. In a study published in the first issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Canadian researchers modified the tumour inhibiting protein, von Hippel-Lindau (VHL), and demonstrated that it could suppress tumour growth in mice. http://www.physorg.com/news157279849.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:51:21 EST news157279849 (PhysOrg.com) -- It may sound like something out of a science fiction movie - but bad memories can be erased in mice and this finding sheds light into how memories are normally encoded and stored in the brain. In a study published in the March 13 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have established a link between specific neurons and a given memory. http://www.physorg.com/news156012310.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:00:01 EST news156012310 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ever thought the other guy was a loser for giving his all for the team even if others weren't pulling their weight? http://www.physorg.com/news155938353.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:12:55 EST news155938353 A minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment -that safely and effectively uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain of herniated disks -will become standard in the United States in the next few years, predict researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting. In a related study, the interventional radiologists examined just how ozone relieves the pain associated with herniated disks. http://www.physorg.com/news155817234.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:34:19 EST news155817234 Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers. http://www.physorg.com/news155404273.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:52:03 EST news155404273 In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours "leave a bad taste in your mouth". But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific evidence from the University of Toronto that shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease. http://www.physorg.com/news154880780.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:26:57 EST news154880780 Researchers from the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) have made a breakthrough discovery that may eventually change the way physicians approach treatment of learning and memory defects in children and adults. Their findings are published in the current issue of PLoS Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news154712372.html Biology Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:42:09 EST news154712372 Researchers at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference - with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children who can't speak or move. http://www.physorg.com/news153472589.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:17:12 EST news153472589 Cleaning up the dangerous contaminants - dry-cleaning fluids, solvents and petroleum hydrocarbons - found in underground water presents one of the most urgent challenges facing environmental science. A report issued today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sheds light on a new way to monitor and improve the success of clean-up efforts using a technique developed at the University of Toronto. http://www.physorg.com/news152539505.html Space & Earth Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:05:38 EST news152539505 Mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has not fallen since 1994, according to a comprehensive review of major studies that assessed ARDS deaths. This disappointing finding contradicts the common wisdom that ARDS mortality has been in steady decline. http://www.physorg.com/news151913553.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:13:03 EST news151913553 Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact opposite. Their findings will be published online in the prestigious international journal Science on January 22. http://www.physorg.com/news151856783.html Physics Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:26:52 EST news151856783 Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics. http://www.physorg.com/news151252170.html Chemistry Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:29:30 EST news151252170 University of Toronto quantum physicists Jeff Lundeen and Aephraim Steinberg have shown that Hardy's paradox, a proposal that has confounded physicists for over a decade, can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had seemingly been impossible to perform. http://www.physorg.com/news151164690.html Physics Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:11:30 EST news151164690 Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in quite a detailed list of characteristics that Chinese practitioners think make for champion fighters. "Because money was involved, there was a strong incentive for the practitioners of this sport to observe their cricket fighters closely," says Kevin Judge, a biology postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto Mississauga. http://www.physorg.com/news150541753.html Biology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:09:13 EST news150541753 (PhysOrg.com) -- Often thought to be hobbled by corruption, poor infrastructure and a weak financial system, African exporters rose to the opportunities presented by a U.S. trade liberalization policy, a recent University of Toronto study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news150473407.html Other Sciences Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:10:07 EST news150473407 (PhysOrg.com) -- Observing and betting on cricket fights has been part of Chinese cultural tradition since at least the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278). This ancient practice has resulted in a detailed list of characteristics that Chinese practitioners think make for champion fighters. `Because money was involved, there was a strong incentive for the practitioners of this sport to observe their cricket fighters closely,` says Kevin Judge, a biology postdoctoral researcher at U of T Mississauga. http://www.physorg.com/news150396535.html Biology Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:48:55 EST news150396535 A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that the frequent arousals from sleep that occur in heart failure patients with central sleep apnea (CSA) may reflect the presence of another underlying arousal disorder rather than being a defensive mechanism to terminate apneas. http://www.physorg.com/news150024559.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:29:19 EST news150024559