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Gene therapy for chronic pain gets first test in people

Gene therapy for chronic pain gets first test in people

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

This week, University of Michigan scientists will begin a phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of cancer-related pain, using a novel gene transfer vector injected into the skin to deliver a pain-relieving ...





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Researcher wants to tip the scales for northern lizard

Researcher wants to tip the scales for northern lizard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Armed with eyelash glue, a walking stick and a faithful horse, University of Alberta researcher Krista Fink is hoping to help Canada's most northern lizard get off the species-at-risk list.


Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot

Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The research, led by Wolfgang Fink, will aid both people with visual impairments and scientists involved in planetary exploration.


'Feel-good' hormone serotonin regulates blood sugar concentration

'Feel-good' hormone serotonin regulates blood sugar concentration

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diabetes is the most prevalent metabolic disease in developed countries and one that engenders - in addition to its high fatality - enormous health care costs. The physiological meaning of ...


Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.


Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses

Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual ...


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In amoeba world, cheating doesn't pay

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoebas where natural selection favors the noble.


Ants vs. worms:  New computer security mimics nature

Ants vs. worms: New computer security mimics nature

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (13) | comments 2

In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant.


RNA interference found in budding yeasts

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical ...


Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award

Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research performed at Caltech as part of a collaborative U.S. Department of Energy-funded artificial-retina project designed to restore sight to the blind has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. ...


'Flexible camera' replaces lens with fiber web

'Flexible camera' replaces lens with fiber web

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science ...



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