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Researcher Finds New Method to Create Cancer Drugs

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

When fixing a car, it’s a good idea to have more than one type of wrench. Similarly, when doctors treat cancer patients, they like to have different “tools” available. Cancer tumors can be big or small. Some tumors grow very ...





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Drop in cancer deaths tied primarily to gains in behavior and screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Improvements in behavior and screening have contributed greatly to the 13 percent decline in cancer mortality since 1990, with better cancer treatments playing a supporting role, according to new research from David Cutler ...


Plants can be used to study how and why people respond differently to drugs

Plants can be used to study how and why people respond differently to drugs

Biology /

created Sep 26, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

While prescription medications work successfully to cure an ailment in some people, in others the same dose of the same drug can cause an adverse reaction or no response at all.


MU researcher finds new method to create cancer drugs

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When fixing a car, it's a good idea to have more than one type of wrench. Similarly, when doctors treat cancer patients, they like to have different "tools" available. Cancer tumors can be big or small. Some tumors grow very ...


Moon Magic: Researchers Develop New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses

Moon Magic: Researchers Develop New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, ...


Betting on hope: Mother of an autistic college professor reaches out to other parents

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Eustacia Cutler sat at a piano, practicing Bach. Her daughter, Temple Grandin, was on the floor -- lost in her own world. Lost inside her 2-year-old mind.


Synthetic chemical offers solution for crops facing drought

Synthetic chemical offers solution for crops facing drought

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Crops and other plants are constantly confronted with adverse environmental conditions, lowering yield and costing farmers billions of dollars annually. Plants use specialized signals, called stress hormones, ...


Moon magic: Researchers develop new tool to visualize past, future lunar eclipses

Moon magic: Researchers develop new tool to visualize past, future lunar eclipses

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears ...


Life expectancy rises for the educated; the less-educated reap no benefit

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

It's no secret that over the last few decades, life expectancy in the United States has been rising. However, recent data shows that not everyone has benefited from this encouraging trend. New findings from Harvard Medical ...


Meet the man behind WhiteHouse.gov

Technology / Internet

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Macon Phillips understands the new media scene, one that combines politics and technology to talk directly to the people. Phillips works for President Barack Obama as the White House's new media director, a new job for an ...


Gorilla goes under the knife for cataract repair

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The patient was a 42-year-old, 160-pound grandmother with thick bilateral cataracts that had left her nearly blind, markedly diminishing her quality of life.



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