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Molecular mechanisms of vision

Beginning to see the light

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have detailed the active form of a protein which they hope will enhance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of vision, and advance drug design.


Lung airway cells activate vitamin D and increase immune response

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 04, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study finds ...





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Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

Medicine & Health / Research

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When asked to inhibit their response to a "cocaine-cues" video, active cocaine abusers were, on average, able to suppress activity in brain regions linked to drug craving, according to a new ...


Too much physical activity may lead to arthritis

Medicine & Health / Health

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Middle-aged men and women who engage in high levels of physical activity may be unknowingly causing damage to their knees and increasing their risk for osteoarthritis, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting ...


Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Substrates

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 4

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...


Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies

Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The European Space Agency has today released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument. Spectrometers on board all three Hershel ...


Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar

Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...


Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...


Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

When cells are confronted with an invading virus or bacteria or exposed to an irritating chemical, they protect themselves by going off their DNA recipe and inserting the wrong amino acid into new proteins to defend them ...


Cancer metabolism discovery uncovers new role of IDH1 gene mutation in brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Agios Pharmaceuticals today announced that its scientists have established, for the first time, that the mutated IDH1 gene has a novel enzyme activity consistent with a cancer-causing gene, or oncogene. This breakthrough ...


New understanding about mechanism for cell death after stroke leads to possible therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which ...


Renelly Morel (R), digital marketing manager for Ubisoft, works out with Your Shape

Ubisoft steps up videogame fitness with virtual coach

Technology / Software

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday.



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