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Study finds clue to birth defects in babies of mothers with diabetes

In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key to the molecular mechanism that significantly increases the ri ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Universal detector made of DNA building blocks

(PhysOrg.com) -- A method for detecting such diverse substances as antibiotics, narcotics and explosives - a universal detector, so to speak - has been developed by German researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common diabetic therapy reduces risk of pancreatic cancer, study finds

Taking the most commonly-prescribed anti-diabetic drug, metformin, reduces an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer by 62 percent, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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With optimal conversations, young couples experience less relationship stress, higher satisfaction: study

(Medical Xpress) -- The happiest young couples may be involved in a different kind of engagement. Young adults who easily engage in rewarding conversations with their partners are less likely to hold onto anger and stress ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Want consensus? Look to fish

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flock of birds. A school of fish. An army of ants. Glance at these groupings and they appear to move in unison effortlessly. Take a closer look and you’ll see an intricate symphony ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy

(AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There's his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 53

MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing

Not long ago, MIT political scientist Suzanne Berger was visiting a factory in western Massachusetts, a place that produces the plastic jugs you find in grocery stores. As she saw on the factory floor, the ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Exercise triggers beneficial cellular recycling: study

Everyone knows exercise is good for you. We’re told time spent on the treadmill can reduce our risk of diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disorders. But exactly how exercise provides this protection ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blocking metabolic protein improves movement in animals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Turning off a protein that helps cells balance energy increases animal mobility and reduces the death of nerve cells that control movement in animal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a study in the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Earthly machine recreates star's sizzling-hot surface

Since we can't go to the stars yet, let's bring the stars to us. In a giant X-ray-producing facility, astronomers and plasma physicists have heated a cigar-sized sample of gas to over 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Review: 'Rocksmith' rocks out with real guitars

If "Guitar Hero" was the spunky teenager who made music gaming fun, "Rocksmith" is his older, cooler brother in a distressed leather jacket.

Technology / Software

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Mystery of car battery's current solved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have solved the 150 year-old mystery of what gives the lead-acid battery, found under the bonnet of most cars, its unique ability to deliver a surge of current.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

U.S. Supreme Court petitioned to review AMP, et al. lawsuit on gene patents

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a case that challenges the validity ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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