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Scientists track neurons to predict and prevent diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are looking at how developing nerve cells may hold a key to predicting and preventing diseases like cancer ...





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New CReAM research on the factors that shape individual attitudes towards migration policy

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new research paper from CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at UCL) investigates the factors which determine individual attitudes towards migration policy.


Should Humans Give Overheated Species a Lift?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 24, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As the Earth warms up (2006 was the hottest year on record in America and the hottest in Britain since 1659), ecologists expect many plants and animals to move up, too -- up north and uphill, to locations where temperatures ...


We're off then: the evolution of bat migration

We're off then: The evolution of bat migration

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, ...


New discovery about the formation of new brain cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The generation of new nerve cells in the brain is regulated by a peptide known as C3a, which directly affects the stem cells' maturation into nerve cells and is also important for the migration of new nerve cells through ...


Sophisticated monitoring array to address mystery of uranium plume

Sophisticated monitoring array to address mystery of uranium plume

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 17, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists have puzzled for years about why uranium contamination in groundwater continues to exceed drinking water standards in an area located at the south end of the Hanford Site. The Department of Energy ...


DIAMOND to tackle UK nuclear waste issues

Other Sciences / Other

created May 01, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The long-term problem of how to manage and dispose of Britain’s nuclear waste is to be tackled by a UK consortium headed by the University of Leeds.


Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia

Biology / Other

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations. Now, for the first time, these studies have been extended to 73 Southeast Asian (SEA) and East Asian (EA) populations.


U.S. Rep.: Best Jobs May Soon Be Found Overseas

Technology / Business

created May 13, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Tennessee Congressman Bart Gordon demands more reliable data on the effects of offshoring on the tech work force, and urges science and technology workers to acquire skills that will differentiate them from foreign competitors.


Is it too late to save the great migrations?

Biology /

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Long gone are the days when hundreds of thousands of bison grazed the Great Plains, millions of passenger pigeons darkened the skies while migrating to and from their breeding grounds, and some 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain ...


Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research

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created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 2

A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ...



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