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IL-2 immunotherapy fails to benefit HIV-infected individuals already taking antiretrovirals

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Providing a synthetic form of the immune system protein interleukin-2 (IL-2) to HIV-infected individuals already taking combination antiretroviral therapy boosts their numbers of CD4+ T cells, the key white blood cells destroyed ...





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Triple-combo drug shows promise against antiviral-resistant H1N1, researcher says (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An experimental drug cocktail that includes three prescriptions now widely available offers the best hope in developing a single agent to treat drug-resistant H1N1 swine flu, says a virology researcher in the University of ...


Controlling a sea of information

Biology /

created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Curators at one of the world’s most widely used biological databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, or TAIR, have joined forces with the journal Plant Physiology, to solve the “flood of information” dilemma. It is ...


TGen seeks emergency FDA approval of new swine flu test

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Phoenix-based non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) announced today that, along with a business collaborator, it will submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of ...


NY publisher releases Deveraux novel as video book (AP)

NY publisher releases Deveraux novel as video book

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- The latest novel from best-selling romance author Jude Deveraux isn't exactly a book. "Promises" is a reading and viewing experience, a digital text in which videos not only complement the narrative ...


Carbon Nanotube Network Detects DNA Without Labels

Carbon Nanotube Network Detects DNA Without Labels

Nanotechnology /

created Feb 03, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Using a microchip device constructed with carbon nanotubes, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Nanomix, Inc., in Emeryville, CA, have developed a rapid method of detecting specific DNA sequences, ...


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Synthetic biology can help extend anti-malaria drug effectiveness

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this ...


Early California: A killing field

Early California: A killing field

Other Sciences /

created Feb 13, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Research shatters utopian myth, finds Indians decimated bird "The wild geese and every species of water fowl darkened the surface of every bay � in flocks of millions�. When disturbed, they arose ...


Computer scientist reveals the math and science behind blockbuster movies

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 19, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (54) | comments 0

On Feb. 19 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, movie lovers get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the physics-based simulations that breathe life into fantasy.


Researchers launch Smart Parking project at Rockridge BART

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created Dec 07, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drivers on Highway 24 will soon see road signs flashing real-time data on the availability of parking spaces at Oakland's Rockridge BART station. The signs are part of a new "Smart Parking" management field trial launched tod ...



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