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Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) but are difficult to identify. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, led ...
Giant impact near India -- not Mexico -- may have doomed dinosaurs
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 ...
Ahead of the games: Test will catch sports cheats on new endurance drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now ...
Southern Ocean resistant to changing winds
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Intensifying winds in the Southern Ocean have had little influence on the strength of the Southern Ocean circulation and therefore its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a study published in ...
Software Helps Developers Get Started with PIV Cards
Jul 10, 2008 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed two demonstration software packages that show how Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards can be used with Windows and Linux systems to perform ...
Genetic Material under a Magnifying Glass
Jan 28, 2008 |
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The genetic alphabet contains four letters. Although our cells can readily decipher our genetic molecules, it isn’t so easy for us to read a DNA sequence in the laboratory. Scientists require complex, highly sophisticated ...
Research reveals molecular fingerprint of cocaine addiction
May 27, 2008 |
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The first large-scale analysis of proteins in the brains of monkeys addicted to cocaine reveals new information on how long-term cocaine use changes the amount and activity of various proteins affecting brain function.
Meteorites Study: Mars, Earth, Moon Grew Up In Unique Planetary Nursery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A study of meteorites suggests that Mars, the Earth and the Moon share a common composition from ‘growing up’ in a unique planetary nursery in the inner solar system. The finding could lead to a rethink of ...
Colon cancer screening technique shows continued promise in new study
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Recent clinical trials show that a new colon cancer screening technique created by Northwestern University researchers has a high enough sensitivity that it could potentially be as or more successful than a colonoscopy in ...
Scientists study emerging strains of superbug Clostridium difficile
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New and emerging strains of the bacteria Clostridium difficile (C.diff) are being studied by scientists in Glasgow, London and Cambridge in an attempt to understand the rise in the reported incidence of this ...
HP HDX 18t Notebook Is Now Available
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 02, 2008 |
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HP has just recently announced their HDX 18t Premium Series laptop. HP's HDX 18t is powered by Intel´s latest Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processor. The HDX 18t is equipped with up to 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce ...
Ready to go: mobile terahertz devices
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool. Researchers have mobilized the transmitting and receiving devices so that they can be used anywhere ...
Gold Nanostars Outshine the Competition
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper,* NIST scientists used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy ...
New technique could dramatically lower costs of DNA sequencing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. The technique ...
QUT researcher eyes off a biometric future
Dec 04, 2007 |
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It is not science fiction to think that our eyes could very soon be the key to unlocking our homes, accessing our bank accounts and logging on to our computers, according to Queensland University of Technology researcher ...
