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Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease

Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Aging is the single greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In their latest study, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that simply slowing the aging process in mice prone to ...


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Google releases Chrome browser for Macintosh computers

Technology / Software

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google on Tuesday released a version of its Chrome Web browser for Macintosh computers in a challenge to Safari software Apple offers users of its machines.


Extended youthfulness as a prevention for Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Therapies that can keep us younger longer might also push back the clock on Alzheimer's disease, suggests a new study of mice in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.


Microsoft to kick off Office 2010 in June

Technology / Software

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

When Microsoft starts selling Office 2010 next year, the company will take its workhorse software suite and move it one step closer to its vision of cloud computing.


FDA-approved drug may slow beta cell destruction in type 1 diabetes patients

FDA-approved drug may slow beta cell destruction in type 1 diabetes patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New findings by UT Southwestern researchers suggest that a drug already used to treat autoimmune disorders might also help slow the destruction of insulin-producing cells in patients recently diagnosed with ...


Movieclips.com launches with studio deals

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Movieclips.com, an online movie clip-sharing service, launched in beta test mode on Wednesday touting the cooperation of six major Hollywood studios amid an industrywide slowdown in DVD sales.


Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.


Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Crack open the latest medical textbook to the chapter on type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, and you'll be hard pressed to find the term "immunology" anywhere. This is because metabolic conditions and immunologic conditions ...


Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...


Noninsulin-producing alpha cells in the pancreas can be converted to insulin-producing beta cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In findings that add to the prospects of regenerating insulin-producing cells in people with type 1 diabetes, researchers in Europe -- co-funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation -- have shown that insulin-producing ...


Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of ...


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WOWD, the real-time search engine

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The beta version of WOWD, the Internet's newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It aims to differentiate itself from other search engines ...


Intel Offers Developer Kit For Future Atom Processor Netbook Apps

Technology / Software

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intel Corporation has made its beta version of the Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK) available for Microsoft Windows and Moblin operating systems developers. The kit helps software companies and ...


Ultrasound enhances noninvasive Down syndrome tests

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The addition of a "genetic sonogram" maximizes the accuracy of non-invasive testing for Down syndrome, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who was lead author of a landmark study in the current issue of Obstetrics an ...


Microsoft Office 2010 beta ready to download

Technology / Software

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you want to try out Microsoft Office 2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.