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Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.


Lake Research That Isn't All Wet

Lake Research That Isn't All Wet

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes.


Secret ingredient for the health of tropical rainforests found

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2

A team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists has found for the first time that tropical rainforests, a vital part of the Earth's ecosystem, rely on the rare trace element molybdenum to capture the nitrogen ...


New method for manufacturing radio isotopes

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the message from Prof. Bert Wolterbeek ...


Controlling the size of nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...


Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...