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Learning about material integrity from statistical data

Whether it protects space satellites or sequesters nuclear waste, scientists want to understand tiny features that could significantly alter how a material behaves. Locating microscopic defects can be done ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Revised criteria could reclassify many with mild Alzheimer dementia

Many patients currently diagnosed with very mild or mild Alzheimer disease dementia could potentially be reclassified as having mild cognitive impairment (MCI) under revised criteria for that condition, according to a report ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Circular RNAs more common than previously thought

In the classical model of gene expression, the genetic script encoded in our genomes is expressed in each cell in the form of RNA molecules, each consisting of a linear string of chemical "bases". It may be time to revise ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A thought-provoking new therapeutic target for brain cancer?

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common of all malignant brain tumors that originate in the brain. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis because it is a highly aggressive form of cancer that is commonly resistant ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transcriptional barcoding of retinal cells identifies disease target cells

(Medical Xpress) -- By developing a large scale gene expression map for retinal cell types, FMI Neurobiologists have been able to identify the cells in the retina, where the genes causing retinal diseases ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new way to stimulate the immune system and fight infection

A study carried out by Eric Vivier and Sophie Ugolini at the Marseille-Luminy Centre for Immunology has just reveal a gene in mice which, when mutated, can stimulate the immune system to help fight against tumors and viral ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Review: Thunderbird innovates, but Web mail wins

The last time I relied on email software for personal messaging, George W. Bush was starting his second term, Pluto was still a planet and the Motorola Razr was America's most popular mobile phone.

Technology / Software

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Scientists paint new picture of dance between protein and binding partners

Using a blend of technologies, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have painted a new picture of how biochemical information can be transmitted through the modification of a protein. Previously, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Untangling a protein's influences

Most proteins have multiple moving parts that rearrange into different conformations to execute particular functions. Such changes may be induced by molecules in the immediate environment, including water ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Severe congenital disorder successfully treated in a mouse model for the first time

Using a mouse model, Heidelberg University Hospital researchers have for the first time successfully treated a severe congenital disorder in which sugar metabolism is disturbed. The team headed by Prof. Christian Korner, ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery of new vaccine approach for treatment of cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a new vaccine to treat cancer at the pre-clinical level. The research team led by Professor Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers identify a novel therapeutic approach for liver cancer

Cancer of the liver – rare in the United States but the third-leading cause of cancer death worldwide – can result from environmental exposures or infections like chronic hepatitis, but the link ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genome-wide study into new gene functions in the formation of platelets

In a study into the genetics of blood cell formation, researchers have identified 68 regions of the genome that affect the size and number of platelets. Platelets are small cells that circulate in the blood and are key to ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

School-in-a-bag reduces drop-out rates

A more flexible approach to teaching methods and better community support could reduce school drop-out in high HIV-prevalence areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter

Brown University physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. The researchers report in Physical Review Le ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 43 | with audio podcast