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Transforming skin cells into cartilage

In this paper, Noriyuki Tsumaki and his team at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, used fibroblasts isolated from adult mouse skin, and expressed proteins used to induce pluripotency along with a factor that ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Titanium coating with protein 'flower bouquet' nanoclusters strengthens implant attachment

Researchers have developed an improved coating technique that could strengthen the connection between titanium joint-replacement implants and a patients' own bone. The stronger connection -- created by manipulating ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Childhood obesity: The increasing vascular drama

Obesity is one of the most important health problems in industrialized countries irrespective of socio-economic status, age, sex or ethnicity. The prevalence of childhood obesity in children has reached alarming levels, even ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How embryo movement stimulates joint formation

A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism that explains why joints fail to develop in embryos with paralyzed limbs. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Developmental Cell, answers a long ...

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created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Smallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair

When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students discover millisecond pulsar, help in the search for gravitational waves

A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a super-fast spinning star, and this one rotates about 324 times per second. The Pulsar Search ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Collaborative research sheds light on new cancer stem cell therapies

A collaborative anti-cancer research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and Nevada Cancer Institute has led to the development of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption

Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Essential protein for the formation of new blood vessels identified

New research explains how cells regulate their bonds during the development of new blood vessels. For the first time, the role of the protein Raf-1 in determining the strength of the bond between cells has ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene offers protection from intense laser pulses

Researchers from Singapore and the UK have jointly announced a new benchmark in broadband, non-linear optical-limiting behavior using single-sheet graphene dispersions in a variety of heavy-atom solvents and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill

(AP) -- Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Powerful pixels: Mapping the 'Apollo Zone'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Grayscale pixels – up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

No brakes on breast cancer cells

Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have discovered a tiny RNA molecule, called miR-520, which at once blocks two important pathways in the development of cancer in cells. In estrogen receptor-negative ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A galaxy blooming with new stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-field view of this object and its surroundings ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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