News tagged with escape system
NASA Successfully Tests Alternate Launch Abort System for Astronaut Escape
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next generation of spacecraft will have the safest-ever astronaut escape system, a modern-day version of the reliable Apollo system. Like Apollo, the Orion launch abort system will ...
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Novel computational model describes the speed at which HIV escapes the immune response
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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Researchers from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, have developed a model that illustrates how HIV evades the immune system. The study, published July 18th in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, incorp ...
HIV uses several strategies to escape immune pressure
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 19, 2009 |
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A study of how HIV mutates in response to immune system pressure by Emory Vaccine Center researchers shows that the virus can take several escape routes, not one preferred route.
Tree lizard’s quick release escape system makes jumpers turn somersaults
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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If you've ever tried capturing a lizard, you'll know how difficult it is. But if you do manage to corner one, many have the ultimate emergency quick release system for escape. They simply drop their tails, leaving the twitching ...
Ancient geologic escape hatches mistaken for tube worms
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Tubeworms have been around for millions of years and the fossil record is rich with their distinctive imprints. But a discovery made by U of C scientists found that what previous researchers had labeled as tubeworms in a ...
Windows 7 to make public debut May 5
May 01, 2009 |
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Microsoft said Thursday that a nearly-final version of its next-generation Windows 7 operating system will be publicly released on May 5.
NASA Launch Tests Alternate Concept for Astronaut Escape System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2009 |
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NASA's Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, is scheduled to be tested June 15 at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The launch window extends from approximately 5:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. EDT.
Catching the blood cell bus gives fatal yeast infection a clean getaway
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Sep 09, 2008 |
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Yeast fungus cells that kill thousands of AIDS patients every year escape detection by our bodies' defences by hiding inside our own defence cells, and hitch a ride through our systems before attacking and spreading, scientists ...
NASA Conducts Full-Scale Test Firing of Orion Jettison Motor
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA completed a full-scale rocket motor test on Thursday, July 17, to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft's launch abort system from the crew ...
Viral recombination another way HIV fools the immune system
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 21, 2008 |
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When individuals infected with HIV become infected with a second strain of the virus, the two viral strains can exchange genetic information, creating a third, recombinant strain of the virus. It is known that the presence ...
Fishy fight-or-flight response may hold answers to human nerve damage
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Alberta are looking to the tiny zebrafish for a way to regenerate damaged nerve cells in people.
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