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Random DNA mix-ups not so random in cancer development

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer - ...


Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.


A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

Technology / Energy

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than ...


Turbulence around heat transport

Turbulence around heat transport

Physics / General Physics

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat transport in the earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought.


Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise in Treating Kidney Disease

Medicine & Health / Medications

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(PhysOrg.com) -- An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United ...


Scent signals stop incest in lemurs

Biology / Evolution

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Chemical identifiers secreted from the genital glands of lemurs, allow them to avoid incest and also to engage in nepotism. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have identified the smells ...


Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Medicine & Health / Research

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Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.


Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn

Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to ...


Videos can help cancer patients choose level of care they prefer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Patients with terminal brain cancer who watched a brief video illustrating options for end-of-life care were significantly more likely to indicate a preference for comfort measures only than were patients who listened to ...


Santa's Sleigh: NC State Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick?s Christmas Magic

Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic

Other Sciences / Other

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...



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