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CD97 gene expression and function correlate with WT1 protein expression and glioma invasiveness

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's VCU Massey Cancer Center and Harold F. Young Neurosurgical Center (Richmond, VA) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) have discovered that suppression ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China bans airlines from paying EU carbon charges

China said Monday it has banned its airlines from complying with an EU scheme to impose charges on carbon emissions opposed by more than two dozen countries including India, Russia and the United States.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Combination drug therapy urged to battle lung cancer

Combination drug therapy may be needed to combat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Van Andel Research Institute (VARI).

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Colorful solar instrument treks east for a new career

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the world's most colorful solar instruments is moving across country for a new life dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth

Solar radiation from a massive sun storm -- the largest in nearly a decade -- collided with the Earth's atmosphere, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

PRINTed nanoparticles deliver multiple punches to treat prostate cancer

Using technologies common to the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Liquidia Technologies has created a polymer nanoparticle that can encapsulate large loads ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research shows 1992 earthquake in Pakistan was due to rare horizontal shift

(PhysOrg.com) -- The media (and school teachers, of course) has done a very good job of informing most people about how earthquakes work. We can all very easily imagine two great plates rubbing against one ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Taking another look at the roots of social psychology

(Medical Xpress) -- Psychology textbooks have made the same historical mistake over and over. Now the inaccuracy is pointed out in a new article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Associ ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff

(AP) -- Dozens of workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over job transfers that was defused but highlights growing labor ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Twin Cities light rail project presents both opportunities and risks for health, according to report

The rezoning around a planned light rail line in the Twin Cities would create both opportunities and potential risks for the health of the people in the communities it would pass through, according to a health impact assessment ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After quakes, owner to lower pressure in Ohio well

(AP) -- The owner of a northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling plans to remove material from it to help lower its inner pressure following 11 minor earthquakes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes

A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 18

Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined

Lead pipes once used routinely in municipal water distribution systems are a well-recognized source of dangerous lead contamination, but new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Survey reveals scientists have trouble accessing human embryonic stem cell lines

The promise of stem cell research for drug discovery and cell-based therapies depends on the ability of scientists to acquire stem cell lines for their research.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Early lineage of Larkspur and Monkshood plants rediscovered in Southern Europe

Larkspurs, monkshoods, and aconites are plants, widely cultivated for their beauty and medicinal properties. They all belong to the Delphinieae, a natural group of 650-700 species ranging from Eurasia into ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0