News tagged with magic bullet


A natural approach for HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For 25 years, researchers have tried and failed to develop an HIV vaccine, primarily by focusing on a small number of engineered "super antibodies" to fend off the virus before it takes hold. So far, these ...


'Plant-eating predator to fight superweed is not magic bullet'

Biology /

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plans to introduce plant-eating predators to fight a superweed spreading throughout Britain should not be seen as a 'magic bullet', says a world expert on Japanese knotweed at the University of Leicester.





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Bullet pulled from woman's head in China after 42 years: report

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors in southwest China have successfully removed a bullet from a woman's head 42 years after she was shot, putting an end to decades of increasingly unbearable pain, state media said Friday.


Drugs may be 'magic bullet' for infants born with rare form of diabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Infants born with a rare form of inherited diabetes might avoid irreversible damage to their pancreases if they are treated immediately with sulfonylurea drugs rather than insulin, according to a new report in the February ...


Viral 'magic bullet' targets cancer cells with help of new compound

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital – along with colleagues at the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI)–report a ...


The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up

The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Together with the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray telescopes. Astronomers can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. ...


Using magic to learn about maths

Using magic to learn about maths

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An academic from Queen Mary, University of London has launched a series of videos featuring magic tricks that are conjured from a mathematical perspective.


Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks

Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Newcastle University are about to give office workers a perfect excuse to play games: it's all in the name of research. Dr Jeff Yan, together with his PhD student Su-Yang ...


Researchers find hope in diabetes battle

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created Sep 16, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Canadian researchers have found what they hope is a magic bullet in combating diabetes.


Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 3

One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers ...


Multivitamins are no magic bullet panacea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

We've been told for years that popping a multivitamin will make us healthier and prolong our lives, but a major study recently found that daily multivitamins don't make a difference in the rate of breast or colon cancer, ...


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300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

Technology / Energy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...



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