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 Brazilian acai berry antioxidants absorbed by human body

Brazilian acai berry antioxidants absorbed by human body

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A Brazilian palm berry, popular health food though little research has been done on it, now may have its purported benefits better understood. In the first research involving people, the acai (ah-sigh-EE) ...





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24-carat gold 'snowflakes' improve graphene's electrical properties

Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.


Engineers create DNA sensors that could identify cancer using material only one atom thick

New DNA sensors could identify cancer using graphene

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material.


WholeSoy yogurt recall is expanded

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 13, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an expanded nationwide recall of WholeSoy & Co. yogurt.


Mystery of fossilized trees is solved

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 18, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 0

An international research team has found evidence of the Earth's earliest forest trees, dating back 385 million years.


Researchers find that healthy, younger adults could be at risk for heart disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even younger adults who have few short-term risk factors for heart disease may have a higher risk of developing heart disease over their lifetimes, according to new findings by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.


Chemopreventive agents in black raspberries identified

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, identifies components of black raspberries with chemopreventive potential.


Artist's impression of the bacterial flagellar motor. Credit: Akihiko Ishijima.

Bacterial motors could inspire nanotechnology

Nanotechnology /

created Feb 20, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 0

An Oxford University physicist sees the future of nanotechnology in the workings of one of Nature's tiniest motors, that which allows some bacteria to swim by rotating slender filaments known as flagella.


21st Century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start

Chemistry /

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray technique has enabled scientists to "play detective" and solve the debate about the origins of a three-billion-year-old rock fragment.


Researchers can read thoughts to decipher what a person is actually seeing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 06, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (42) | comments 1

Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing ...


Controlling drug design through ‘unnatural’ selection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 11, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Darwin probably never envisaged that, 150 years after ‘Origin of the Species’ was published, scientists would be adapting his ideas to improve drug design, but new research from the University of Leeds is doing just that.



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