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No 'Death NET'? That May Explain Why Millions of Infants are at Risk for Potentially Deadly Blood Infection

(PhysOrg.com) -- When locked in mortal combat with infection, some mature white blood cells have a formidable weapon: they literally cast a DNA net-called a neutrophil extracellular trap (NET)-that captures ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Coinstar's stock soars on strong 4Q for Redbox

(AP) -- Coinstar's fourth-quarter earnings soared past analyst estimates as the company's Redbox kiosks for renting DVDs picked up customers who stopped getting their discs through Netflix's rival service.

Technology / Business

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global experts question claims about jellyfish populations

Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations – clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Arctic is already suffering the effects of a dangerous climate change

Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system", the Arctic shows the first signs of a dangerous ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Study finds leukemia cells are 'bad to the bone'

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have discovered new links between leukemia cells and cells involved in bone formation, offering a fresh perspective on how the blood cancer progresses and raising the possibility ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data

Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

GABA signaling prunes back copious 'provisional' synapses during neural circuit assembly

Quite early in its development, the mammalian brain has all the raw materials on hand to forge complex neural networks. But forming the connections that make these intricate networks so exquisitely functional is a process ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New take on impacts of low dose radiation

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), through a combination of time-lapse live imaging and mathematical modeling of a special line of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Online tool helps predict college costs

Choosing a college is one of the most important financial decisions that a teenager - and his or her parents - will ever make. But families that are going through the college-application process have usually had little in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rising air pollution worsens drought, flooding, study shows

Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud development in ways that reduce precipitation in dry regions or seasons, while increasing rain, snowfall ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Physicists turn liquid into solid using an electric field

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 12 | with audio podcast


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