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FoxJ1 Helps Cilia Beat a Path to Asymmetry

FoxJ1 helps cilia beat a path to asymmetry

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies reveals how a genetic switch, known as FoxJ1, helps developing embryos tell their left from their right. While at first glance the right and left sides ...





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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...


This curvaceous humanoid made of layers of cardboard is billed as the first eco-friendly robot

Robo-chefs and fashion-bots on show in Tokyo

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Forget the Transformers and Astroboy: Japan's latest robots don't save the world -- they cook snacks, play with your kids, model clothes, and search for disaster victims.


Nano bubble gum for enhancing drug delivery in gut

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Of the many characteristic traits a drug can have, one of the most desirable is the ability for a drug to be swallowed and absorbed into the bloodstream through the gut. Some drugs, like over-the-counter aspirin, lend themselves ...


Swine flu and kids: Heed warning signs, MDs say (AP)

Swine flu and kids: Heed warning signs, MDs say

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(AP) -- Max Gomez was a bright-eyed 5-year-old happy to have just started kindergarten when he developed sniffles and a fever. His mother figured it was only a cold. Three days later, the Antioch, Tenn., ...


Australian study sheds light on kidney repair and disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study by Monash University researchers has shed new light on the microscopic antennas in the kidney that are involved in the organ's repair process.


Photoswitches shed light on spontaneous free swimming in zebrafish (w/ Video)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new way to select and switch on one cell type in an organism using light has helped answer a long-standing question about the function of one class of enigmatic nerve cells in the spinal cord.


Carbon copying the 'Stradivarius' sound

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's every violinmaker's dream to produce an instrument to rival the sound of a Stradivarius but now researchers at The University of Nottingham are trying to do just that… using acoustic physics and carbon ...


Mathematical keys to a sixth sense -- the lateral-line system

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Biophysicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen are leading an effort to develop and apply models of the so-called lateral-line system found in fish and some amphibians. This sensory organ enables an animal, even in ...


Predicting cancer prognosis

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers led by Dr. Soheil Dadras at the Stanford University Medical Center have developed a novel methodology to extract microRNAs from cancer tissues. The related report by Ma et al, "Profiling and discovery of novel ...


Some brain tumors may be mediated by tiny filament on cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

UCSF scientists have discovered that a tiny filament extending from cells, until recently regarded as a remnant of evolution, may play a role in the most common malignant brain tumor in children.



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