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Preventing Prostate Cancer to Bone Metastasis
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In new research on prostate cancer to bone metastasis, Dr. Phillip Trackman of Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine explains that the lysyl oxidase pro-peptide (LOX-PP) inhibits prostate ...
Natural gut hormone offers hope for new obesity drug
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 15, 2007 |
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A hormone found naturally in the gut is the basis of a new drug to tackle obesity, one of three inaugural awards under the Wellcome Trust's Seeding Drug Discovery initiative. The drug is being developed by one of the world's ...
6 environmental research studies reveal critical health risks from plastic
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A special section in the October 2008 issue of Environmental Re ...
Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points
Oct 02, 2009 |
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When used at high temperatures (above 1100 °C) thermocouples are prone to substantial calibration drift. To gauge the extent of the drift, for example, in an industrial setting, it is highly desirable for ...
Biological selenium removal: The solution to pollution?
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Selenium has been referred to as an "essential toxin" due to the fact that it shows only a marginal line between the nutritious requirement and toxic effects upon exposure. The steep dose response curve due to bioaccumulation ...
Nano-twinned copper: Chinese-Danish scientists develop super strong nanometals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Research shows that it is possible to produce copper about 4 times stronger than commercial material - and doing so while also having a ductile material. As the thermal and electrical conductivity are also good, the manufacturing ...
Integral satellite disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.
African sleeping sickness could be eliminated say tropical disease experts
Feb 26, 2008 |
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While the annual number of new detected cases of African sleeping sickness has been falling since the late 1990s, there could still be a resurgence of the disease unless control efforts are maintained, say tropical disease ...
SKoreans demonstrate spin-injected field effect transistor
Sep 18, 2009 |
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South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure.
'Combinatorial' approach squashes software bugs faster, cheaper
Dec 12, 2007 |
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A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Texas, Arlington is developing an open-source tool that catches programming errors by using an ...
Highlight: Damping of acoustic vibrations in gold nanoparticles
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Vibrations in nanostructures offer applications in molecular-scale biological sensing and ultrasensitive mass detection. To approach single-atom sensing, it is necessary to reduce the dimensions of the structures ...
Sharp Develops New Technology to Blend Plant-Based Plastic with Waste Plastic
Jul 11, 2005 |
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Sharp Corporation has developed a new technology to blend plant-based plastic that uses corn as the raw material, and waste plastic recovered from scrapped consumer electronics. Using a mix of plant-based plastic and was ...
Financial Crisis Reduces Economic Freedom in China and the West
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The current financial crisis may reduce economic freedom as governments are likely increase intervention in a bid to protect their own economies - according to a study in Pacific Focus published by Wiley- ...
Beautiful plumage: Feather color and sex start the species revolution
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Faculty of 1000, the leading scientific evaluation service, has highlighted research providing evidence for the evolution of a new species.
Tilting at wind farms
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of ...
