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Seeing family for the holidays? Scientists discover how the stress might kill you

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If you ever thought the stress of seeing your extended family over the holidays was slowly killing you -- bad news: a new research report in the December 2009 print issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology shows that you mi ...





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Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...


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New Algorithm Ranks Sports Teams like Google's PageRank

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sports fans may be interested in a new system that ranks NFL and college football teams in a simple, straightforward way, similar to how Google PageRank ranks webpages. The new sports algorithm, ...


Study questions true favorability of rare breast cancer type

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

In a large review of breast cancer patients with mucinous carcinoma, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified an association between this rare type of breast cancer long-associated ...


Landmark study confirms chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemotherapy generally improves survival in postmenopausal breast cancer patients, according to a landmark study led by Dr. Kathy Albain of Loyola University Health System.


Obesity linked with poorer breast cancer outcomes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients with a high body mass index (BMI) have a poorer cancer prognosis later in life. Specifically, their treatment effect does not last as long and their risk of death increases.


Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...


Intelligent blood bags

Intelligent blood bags

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These ...


Galician waves are best for producing energy

Galician waves are best for producing energy

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The best coastal areas in the Iberian Peninsula in terms of harnessing wave energy are the Costa da Morte and Estaca de Bares, in La Coruña, Galicia, according to two pioneering studies by researchers from ...


Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal ...


NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.



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