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'Sloppier copier' surprisingly efficient

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

The "sloppier copier" discovered by USC biologists is also the best sixth man in the DNA repair game, an article in the journal Nature shows.





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Race for Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale

Race for Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from UT Dallas, Clemson University and Yale University are using science on the nanoscale to address one of the most elusive challenges in physics - the discovery of ...


When someone is raised female and the genes say XY

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 38

(AP) -- It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person ...


A Real Dracula Story

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research, discovery and publishing in a prestigious journal are not as easy as 1-2-3. However, an outstanding mentor and a well-equipped lab made this feat possible for doctoral student Fei Jiang.


New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone

New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints.


Arkansas reclaims its status as the Bear State

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The bear cub could be heard but remained unseen among the barren trees and dried leaves blanketing the forest floor.


An outside view of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street

Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 12

There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.


Lead-on-Silicon Growth Over Time

Nanoscale materials grow with the flow (Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine unloading a pile of bricks onto the ground and watching the bricks assemble themselves into a level, straight wall in only a few minutes. While merely a fantasy for builders in the everyday world, ...


Reducing kids' salt intake may lower soft drink consumption

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 20, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Children who eat less salt drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks and may significantly lower their risks for obesity, elevated blood pressure and later-in-life heart attack and stroke, researchers reported in the print ...


Antiretroviral drugs may protect against sexual transmission of HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 05, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study in macaques suggests that antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV could also protect people from getting the AIDS virus, especially if two drugs are taken in combination before exposure to the virus occurs.


Results of definitive study are in: lives are saved when defibrillators are placed in public spaces

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heart experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have evidence that at least 522 lives can be saved annually in the United States and Canada by the widespread placement of automated external defibrillators, the paddle-fitted, ...



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