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'Digital genome' time capsule stored under the Swiss Alps

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Europe have created a time capsule they call a 'digital genome,' and deposited it in a bunker known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which lies deep beneath the ski slopes of the Swiss ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Adobe embracing Apple-favored online video format

Adobe Systems on Wednesday put aside its tiff with Apple and told thousands of software developers it is embracing the online video format preferred by the maker of iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Technology / Software

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2




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Scientists discover molecular secrets of 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal remedy

For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Without second wave of brown fat, young mice can't live without mama

For all those who have wondered where they'd be without their mothers, a study reported in the February Cell Metabolism puts a whole new spin on the question. Mice whose mothers pass along a mutant copy of a single imprin ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Portable device will quickly detect pathogens

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Cornell professors will combine their inventions to develop a handheld pathogen detector that will give health care workers in the developing world speedy results to identify in the field ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

3Qs: An Apple for the teacher - and student

Last week Apple announced two new eReader platforms – iBooks and iAuthor – that the electronics giant hopes will modernize learning and “reinvent textbooks.” Northeastern University news ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dealing with stress: New research highlights the survival skills of disease-causing E. coli

Escherichia coli bacteria thrive in the lower intestine of humans and other animals, including birds. Most are vital constituents of the healthy gut flora, but certain forms of E. coli cause a range of di ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria to the rescue

At several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites, uranium mining, milling, and processing have led to groundwater contamination that persists above drinking water standards—in spite of natural flushing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

5 Questions: Rando on resetting the 'aging clock,' cell by cell

Advances in the study of stem cells have fueled hopes that someday, via regenerative medicine, doctors could restore aging people’s hearts, livers, brains and other organs and tissues to a more youthful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Metadynamics technique offers insight into mineral growth and dissolution

By using a novel technique to better understand mineral growth and dissolution, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving predictions of mineral reactions and laying the groundwork ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Three is the magic number: A chain reaction required to prevent tumor formation

Protein p53 is known for controlling the life and death of a cell and has a key role in cancer research. P53 is known to be inactive in 50 percent of cancer patients. If researchers succeed in re-establishing the presence ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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