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Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues.
How cells handle broken chromosomes
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After being recognized and initially processed by the cellular machinery, the broken chromosome is extensively scanned for homology and the break itself is later tethered to the nuclear envelope. Thus the ...
Naps with rapid eye movement sleep increase receptiveness to positive emotion
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Naps with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep refresh the brain's empathetic sensitivity for evaluating human emotions by decreasing a negative bias and amplifying recognition of positive emotions.
Nanocaps help scientists control magnetism reversal
Mar 03, 2006 |
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By fabricating curved “nanocaps” to study nanoscale magnetism, scientists have discovered how to partly control magnetism reversal, which could improve applications such as data storage, recording media and ...
Mechanics meets chemistry in new way to manipulate matter
Mar 21, 2007 |
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The inventors of self-healing plastic have come up with another invention: a new way of doing chemistry. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found a novel way to manipulate matter and drive ...
Model backs green tea and lemon claim, lessens need to test animals
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An animal study at Purdue University has shown that adding ascorbic acid and sugar to green tea can help the body absorb helpful compounds and also demonstrates the effectiveness of a model ...
Signaling between protein, growth factor is critical for coordinated cell migration
Nov 10, 2008 |
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The mysterious process that orchestrates cells to move in unison to form human and animal embryos, heal wounds, and even spread cancer depends on interaction between two well-known genetic signaling pathways, two University ...
World's First LCD That Simultaneously Displays Different Information in Right and Left Viewing Directions
Jul 14, 2005 |
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Sharp has developed a new LCD, which can simultaneously display different information and image content in right and left views in a single unit by directionally controlling the viewing angle of the LCD. This ...
Largemouth bass vulnerability to being caught by anglers a heritable trait
Apr 14, 2009 |
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In an experiment spanning over 20 years, researchers at the University of Illinois have found that vulnerability to being caught by anglers is a heritable trait in largemouth bass.
Scientists offer guidelines for coping with climate change in Alaska
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Coping with the devastating effects of climate change in Alaska will require institutional nimbleness and a willingness among those living at lower latitudes to “share the pain,” according to the authors of a paper published ...
Wireless technologies used today based on decades of work at Virginia Tech
Sep 05, 2008 |
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Technologies used today by companies, such as Direct TV, Iridium Satellite, Bluetooth, and Globalstar, are based on satellite communications efforts started at Virginia Tech four decades ago in its Bradley ...
Brain works more chaotically than previously thought
Feb 27, 2007 |
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The brain appears to process information more chaotically than has long been assumed. This is demonstrated by a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Bonn. The passing on of information from ...
Mimicking gecko feet: Dry adhesive based on carbon nanotubes gets stronger
Oct 09, 2008 |
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The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported in the journal Science by a team of researchers from four U.S. institutions.
A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitry
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire ...
Researchers show surprising interaction between genes, gender and hypertension
Dec 18, 2006 |
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In surprising results, a study of more than 1,200 patients with extremely low or high blood pressure by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine showed that the influence of genes on ...
