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Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Chicken capsules good for aching joints

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chicken collagen can provide relief from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms. A randomised, controlled trial, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy, has found that Chicken type II col ...


Flight of fancy

Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...


Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.


Naked mole rats may hold clues to surviving stroke

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blind, nearly hairless, and looking something like toothy, plump, pink fingers, naked mole rats may rank among nature's most maligned creatures, but their unusual physiology endears them to scientists.


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

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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 ...


Study suggests adult stem cells may help repair hearts damaged by heart attack

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Results from t ...


A challenge to improve Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for structural biology

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy. To catalyze improvements ...



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