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Study explores violent world of raptors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.


Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection.


Geneticists hunt for scleroderma triggers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels, and their internal organs before, ...


Pelvic floor muscle exercises can help manage urinary incontinence in older women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found that a program of pelvic floor muscle exercises, combined with pelvic health education, can be an effective way to manage urinary incontinence in elderly women.


Team develops DNA compounds that could help treat lupus

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

A research team led by a University of Iowa investigator has generated DNA-like compounds that effectively inhibit the cells responsible for systemic lupus erythematosus -- the most common and serious form of lupus. There ...


Sustainable interventions key to successful schistosomiasis control

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A decade after the conclusion of a schistosomiasis control program in Mali, prevalence of the disease had regressed to pre-intervention levels, according to a study published May 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tr ...


Mollusks taste memories to build shells

Mollusks taste memories to build shells (w/Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer.