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BUSM researchers encourage use of potassium iodide

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are strongly encouraging prenatal vitamin manufacturers to use only potassium iodide and not other sources of iodine in their products. According to the researchers, ...





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First evidence that a common pollutant may reduce iodine levels in breast milk

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers in Texas are reporting the first evidence from human studies that perchlorate, a common pollutant increasingly found in food and water, may interfere with an infant's availability of iodine in breast milk. Iodine ...


Coal Liquefaction

Other Sciences /

created Jan 09, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (59) | comments 0

The tightening of worldwide oil reserves is causing the price of oil to escalate — and makes coal, which is much more abundantly available, an interesting starting material for liquid fuels and chemical raw materials. Researchers ...


Getting better visualization of joint cartilage through cationic CT contrast agents

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

In its quest to find new strategies to treat osteoarthritis and other diseases, a Boston University-led research team has reported finding a new computer tomography contrast agent for visualizing the special distributions ...


Greenhouse gas burial

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 26, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Deep coal seams that are not commercially viable for coal production could be used for permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by human activities, thus avoiding atmospheric release, according to two stu ...


First use of antibody and stem cell transplantation to successfully treat advanced leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, to successfully treat ...


Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Biology / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A microwave meter that instantaneously measures both moisture and density of in-shell peanuts has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, making it easier and faster ...


Google says its news approach is "fully consistent with copyright law"

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...


Univision programming will now be allowed on YouTube

Univision coming to YouTube

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

YouTube and Univision announced an agreement on Monday to bring short- and long-form programming from the Spanish-language broadcast network to the video-sharing site.


Message gone viral? Blame it on altruistic, yet image-conscious Internet  'e-mavens'

Message gone viral? Blame it on altruistic, yet image-conscious Internet 'e-mavens'

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some online ad campaigns go viral while other online marketing messages gather "cyber-dust" on the information superhighway? The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email ...


The user-pays model is already in place at News Corp's Wall Street Journal

News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.



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