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Japan mouse study finds hair-loss gene: researcher
May 26, 2009 |
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Experiments on mice have revealed a gene that is linked to early hair loss, a Japanese researcher said, sparking hopes for a treatment to prevent thinning and baldness in humans.
Stem cells in hair follicles point to general model of organ regeneration
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people consider hair as a purely cosmetic part of their lives. To others, it may help uncover one of nature’s best-kept secrets: the body’s ability to regenerate organs. Now, new research ...
Hair today, gone tomorrow: tracking hair loss and growth
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has developed maths-based imaging technology to measure hair on different parts of the human body.
Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Australia’s new $A200m synchrotron in Melbourne could contribute to the fight to save the Tasmanian devil from the outbreak of facial tumour disease currently decimating devil populations, ...
Getting to the roots of hair loss
Feb 24, 2008 |
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A healthy individual loses around a hundred hairs a day. Nothing to worry about as long as they are constantly replaced and the losses occur evenly around the whole scalp. But when hair loss goes well beyond this level it ...
Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
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Aug 01, 2007 |
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Dr Church says he will use the synchotron to see if the disease causes any biochemical changes in the devils which could be detected in their hair before the disease becomes apparent.
Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second ...
Researchers Develop Flow Sensors Based on Blind Fish Hair Structures
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A blind fish that has evolved a unique technique for sensing motion may inspire a new generation of sensors that perform better than current active sonar.
St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing
May 07, 2008 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans and other mammals. The findings will ...
One membrane, many frequencies
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Mar 27, 2007 |
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Modern hearing aids, though quite sophisticated, still do not faithfully reproduce sound as hearing people perceive it. New findings at the Weizmann Institute of Science shed light on a crucial mechanism for discerning different ...
Molecular structure could help explain albinism, melanoma
May 12, 2009 |
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Arthropods and mollusks are Nature's true bluebloods - thanks to hemocyanin, an oxygen-carrying large protein complex, which can even be turned into the enzymatically active chemical phenoloxidase.
Light-driven 'molecular brakes' provide stopping power for nanomachines
May 26, 2008 |
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Researchers in Taiwan report development of a new type of "molecular brake" that could provide on-demand stopping power for futuristic nanomachines. The brake, thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, is ...
In race to predict protein structure, computers take lead
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Jan 15, 2009 |
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A flood of data is emerging from genome research, including sequence data on proteins. To help science keep pace with this flow of knowledge, computer scientists, biophysicists and biochemists across the world have been developing ...
Physicists identify molecular cause for one form of deafness
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Scientists exploring the physics of hearing have found an underlying molecular cause for one form of deafness, and a conceptual connection between deafness and the organization of liquid crystals, which are used in flat-panel ...
Scientists create first crystal structure of an intermediate particle in virus assembly
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The structure, described February 8 in an advance online publication of the journal Nature, provides fresh insights into the elegant dance that viral proteins perform to create the infectious structure that causes all ma ...
