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Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money) or abstract (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature). It can also refer to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much a particular quantity grows over time.

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Failing the sniff test: Researchers find new way to spot fraud

Other Sciences / Economics

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Companies that commit fraud can find innovative ways to fudge the numbers, making it hard to tell something is wrong by just looking at their financial statements. But research from North Carolina State University unveils ...


1930s drug slows tumor growth

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...


Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT's Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion ...


Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs

Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poinsettias can be a lucrative crop for ornamental plant growers, particularly during the Christmas season. In the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere, where poinsettias are grown for both export ...


Early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer patients at increased risk of recurrence

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, compared to those with early-stage disease who do not express the aggressive protein, ...


Study finds lack of VEGF can cause defects similar to dry macular degeneration

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that when the eye is missing a diffusible form of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), i.e. one that when secreted can reach other cells at a distance, the retina ...


Second Law of Thermodynamics May Explain Economic Evolution

Second Law of Thermodynamics May Explain Economic Evolution

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (31) | comments 28

(PhysOrg.com) -- Terms such as the "invisible hand," laissez-faire policy, and free-market principles suggest that economic growth and decline in capitalist societies seem to be somehow self-regulated. Now, ...


Sight gone, but not necessarily lost? Researchers find life in blood-starved retinas

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Like all tissues in the body, the eye needs a healthy blood supply to function properly. Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness. While many of the molecules involved in guiding the ...


Cancer research gets physical

Cancer research gets physical

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer research has traditionally been the realm of biologists, and, more recently, engineers. Now, physicists are getting in on the action.


Protein is linked to lung cancer development

Protein is linked to lung cancer development

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A protein that normally helps defend cells from infection can play a critical role in the development of lung cancer, according to MIT cancer biologists.


Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture.


Latino toddlers lag in cognitive growth

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers find that immigrant Latina mothers, who typically live in poor neighborhoods, give birth to healthy babies, but their toddlers start ...


Lack of Social Interaction Affects Health Outcomes of Breast Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Social environment can play an important role in the biology of disease, including breast cancer, and lead to significant differences in health outcome, according to results of a study published in Cancer Pr ...


Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture

Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a novel enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin -- the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance ...


Global warming may spur increased growth in Pacific Northwest forests

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Global warming in the next century could cause a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests of the Pacific Northwest, a new study suggests. However, forests at lower elevations - which in recent years ...