Researchers pinpoint how smoking causes cancer May 13, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have pinpointed the protein that can lead to genetic changes that cause lung cancer. The research will be published Tuesday, May 12, in the British Journal ... | |
Compound has potential for new class of AIDS drugs May 14, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers have developed what they believe is the first new mechanism in nearly 20 years for inhibiting a common target used to treat all HIV patients, which could eventually lead to a new class of AIDS drugs. | |
Chemical compound prevents cancer in lab May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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While researching new ways to stop the progression of cancer, researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, have discovered a compound that has shown to prevent cancer in the laboratory. The research appears ... | |
 Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Most female frogs don’t call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then –silently – signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent ... | |
 Game Web site gets users to help make computers smarter May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people's and businesses' computers get smarter. | |
 Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chip that ... | |
Novel mechanisms controlling insulin release and fat deposition discovered May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in two recent studies shown that a receptor called ALK7 plays important roles in the regulation of body fat deposition as well as the release of insulin ... | |
 Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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It’s a paradox that has confounded evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859: Since parasites depend on their hosts for survival, why do they harm them? | |
Indianapolis trees provide $5.7M in benefits 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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U.S. Forest Service scientists with the Center for Urban Forest Research have completed a study that found planting and nurturing Indianapolis street trees brought a 500 percent return in benefits from storm water reduction, ... | |
Human vision inadequate for research on bird vision May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The most attractive male birds attract more females and as a result are most successful in terms of reproduction. This is the starting point of many studies looking for factors that influence sexual selection in birds. However, ... | |
UCI scientists study people who can't forget May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Imagine being able to recall every moment of your life, beginning around age 10. Given a date, you remember what day of the week it was, what happened in the world, even what you ate for lunch or what you did at school. | |
 New clues to how proteins dissolve and crystallize May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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In the late 19th century the Czech scientist Franz Hofmeister observed that some salts (ionic compounds) aided the solution of proteins in egg white, some caused the proteins to destabilize and precipitate, ... | |
 Oil powered Norway gradually turns into the wind May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition. | |
New insights into the dynamics of the brain's cortex May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Using mathematics and a computer model of brain activity, Roberto Fernández Galán, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has shown a direct link between activity ... | |
Precise Alignment to Quantum Dots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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“Precise lithographic alignment to site-controlled quantum dots is of major importance for numerous nano-photonic, nano-electronic and nano-spintronic devices,” Sven Höfling tells PhysOrg.com. | |
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