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Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.
New DNA sensors could identify cancer using graphene
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material.
WholeSoy yogurt recall is expanded
Jun 13, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an expanded nationwide recall of WholeSoy & Co. yogurt.
Mystery of fossilized trees is solved
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 18, 2007 |
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An international research team has found evidence of the Earth's earliest forest trees, dating back 385 million years.
Researchers find that healthy, younger adults could be at risk for heart disease
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Even younger adults who have few short-term risk factors for heart disease may have a higher risk of developing heart disease over their lifetimes, according to new findings by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
Chemopreventive agents in black raspberries identified
Jan 08, 2009 |
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A study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, identifies components of black raspberries with chemopreventive potential.
Brazilian acai berry antioxidants absorbed by human body
Oct 06, 2008 |
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A Brazilian palm berry, popular health food though little research has been done on it, now may have its purported benefits better understood. In the first research involving people, the acai (ah-sigh-EE) ...
Bacterial motors could inspire nanotechnology
Feb 20, 2006 |
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An Oxford University physicist sees the future of nanotechnology in the workings of one of Nature's tiniest motors, that which allows some bacteria to swim by rotating slender filaments known as flagella.
21st Century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start
Nov 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray technique has enabled scientists to "play detective" and solve the debate about the origins of a three-billion-year-old rock fragment.
Researchers can read thoughts to decipher what a person is actually seeing
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing ...
Controlling drug design through ‘unnatural’ selection
Dec 11, 2006 |
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Darwin probably never envisaged that, 150 years after ‘Origin of the Species’ was published, scientists would be adapting his ideas to improve drug design, but new research from the University of Leeds is doing just that.
Ripening secrets of the vine revealed
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Nov 21, 2007 |
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Whether you prefer a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Pinot Noir grape variety, two new research articles published in the online open access journal, BMC Genomics, offer a host of new genetic information on fruit ripening for th ...
Protecting wine grapes from heat and drought
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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Deficit irrigation is an agricultural technique used to achieve a variety of results depending on the crop. For white wine grapes, it balances the crop load by limiting the canopy size so there aren't too ...
Promising new drug being evaluated as possible treatment option for fragile X syndrome
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A pilot trial of an oral drug therapy called fenobam has shown promising initial results and could be a potential new treatment option for adult patients with Fragile X syndrome (FXS). Findings of the open label, single-dose ...
Chemists forge a new form of iron
Jun 01, 2006 |
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An international team of chemists has discovered a new and unexpected form of iron, a finding that adds to the fundamental understanding of an element that is among the most abundant on Earth and that, in nature, ...
