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Engineers find inspiration for new materials in Piranha-proof armor

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Stanford develops new tool for teaching doctors to treat sepsis

Jack was sinking fast, his vital signs registering alarming numbers. With every passing second, his doctor, Charles Prober, could see his patient being overwhelmed by sepsis, a deadly complication of infection ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Storm warning: Financial tsunami heading this way

In today's global village, national coffers are more interconnected than ever before. And as the current economic crisis has proven, a downturn in one country can travel in a wave across the globe, like a financial tsunami. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 7

New method makes culture of complex tissue possible in any lab

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance, published online in ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists build highly efficient 'no-waste' laser

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" laser that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

DNA test that identifies Down syndrome in pregnancy can also detect trisomy 18 and trisomy 13

A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome). The ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How do you fight fire in space? Experiments provide some answers

Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Need muscle for a tough spot? Turn to fat stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells derived from fat have a surprising trick up their sleeves: Encouraged to develop on a stiff surface, they undergo a remarkable transformation toward becoming mature muscle cells. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs

Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dabigatran associated with increased risk of acute coronary events

The anticoagulant dabigatran is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) or acute coronary syndrome in a broad spectrum of patients when tested against some other medicines, according to a ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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