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More than fish bait: Worms unlock secrets to new epilepsy treatments

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of scientists from The University of Alabama used worms to reel in information that they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular mechanisms that may be exploited to treat epilepsy. In a new research report ...


Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS

Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies published this month in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provide a significant advance in understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green ...


Stick and slide: Computer simulation advances understanding of molecular motors

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study reveals how molecular motors that power important subcellular movements can generate cyclical motion. The research, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the Biophysical Journal, opens a new door t ...


Maryland Farmer grows plants for green roofs around nation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

It is a crisp fall day on Emory Knoll Farms as John Shepley stops at a raspberry bush, picks a few berries and pops them into his mouth on his walk to the greenhouses.


A view of San Francisco

San Francisco vs Amsterdam in green city rivalry

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

San Francisco and Amsterdam set an online stage for an environmental rivalry regarding which city is more nature-friendly.


Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence ...


Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices (AP)

Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, ...


Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as sports doping products

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their ...


Antifibrotic effects of green tea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Several studies have shown that lipid peroxidation stimulates collagen production in fibroblasts and hepatic stellate cells (HSC), and plays an important role in the development of liver fibrosis. Hepatoprotective effects ...


Commuters wait on the platform shrouded by fog in London

Climate change not man-made, say majority of Britons: poll

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 46

Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday.


Wind power turbines in Dali, in China's southwestern Yunnan province

China to become 'global leader in green tech'

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

China can become the world's top exporter of "green technology" if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday.


Drinking green tea helps prevent kidney stones

Drinking green tea helps prevent kidney stones

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking green tea can help prevent the formation of large kidney stones, report Chinese scientists in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm.


Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...


Researchers produce world’s first transgenic sweet sorghum

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ (University of Queensland) researchers are leading green energy technology with confirmation of the world’s first transgenic sweet sorghum plants.


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.