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Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a new approach for treating and healing skin abscesses caused by bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The study ...


Ski Runs Are Not Created Equal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a new ski run by bulldozing a mountainside rather than only cutting its shrubs and trees is far more damaging ecologically, yet might offer only a week's earlier start to the downhill season, says ...


IKK may act as both inhibitor and promoter of Huntington's disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The kinase IKK phosphorylates the protein mutated in Huntington's disease to promote its removal and neuron survival, but IKK may be a double-edged sword that increases neurotoxicity in later stages of the disease. The study, ...


Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, says study

Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, study says

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use and control of fire are behavioral characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Now, a new study by Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports that savanna ...


Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP)

Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...


Oceans' Uptake of Manmade Carbon May Be Slowing

Oceans' Uptake of Manmade Carbon May Be Slowing

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (20) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism ...


Pay babysitter on iPhone, says Twitter

Pay babysitter on iPhone, says Twitter

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Microblogging service Twitter has branched into the market for electronic payments, unveiling a mini credit card swiper that plugs into the iPhone, at a European internet fair on Wednesday.


Don’t Blame Cows for Climate Change

Don't Blame Cows for Climate Change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate ...


Researchers restore some function to cells from cystic fibrosis patients

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In an encouraging new development, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has restored partial function to lung cells collected from patients with cystic fibrosis. While there is still much work to be done before ...


Defects in T cells make West Nile virus more deadly in older adults

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- West Nile virus is more deadly in older adults due to defects in T cells, according to a study conducted by researchers from the UA College of Medicine.



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