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Study shows gene positions may aid cancer diagnosis

Study shows gene positions may aid cancer diagnosis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Certain genes switch their nuclear position in tumor cells, offering a potential new method of diagnosing cancer, say researchers from the National Cancer Institute. The study by Meaburn et al. will be published ...





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DC-SCRIPT found to have prognostic value in breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DC-SCRIPT, or dendritic cell-specific transcript, is a key regulator of nuclear receptor activity that may have prognostic value in breast cancer, according to a new study published online December 14 in the Journal of th ...


INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 7

As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research ...


Nuclear science to fight sleeping sickness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday announced an agreement to help African nations battle the tsetse fly, the main carrier of parasites that causes sleeping sickness with its bites.


Research shows power of FRET-based approach for distinguishing among distinct states of proteins

Medicine & Health / Research

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

In the December 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology, Moss et al. report a comprehensive investigation employing Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study the {gamma}-amino acid (GABA) transporter GAT1, ...


Clearing the way for detecting pulmonary embolism

Medicine & Health / Research

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

When it comes to diagnosing pulmonary embolism—a sudden blockage in the lung artery that could be deadly if not treated—which technique is the most effective? Research published in the December issue of The Journal of Nu ...


Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkable

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 5

If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address ...


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Latest epidemic? High cholesterol, obesity in fruit flies

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How do fruit flies get high cholesterol and become obese? The same way as people do - by eating a diet that's too rich in fats.


Dating the Bronze Age

Dating the Bronze Age

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new findings ...


An unusual light phenomenon above the Norwegian city of Skjeroy

New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 24

Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.


Researchers identify possible imaging method to stratify breast cancer without biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have discovered a possible way for malignant breast tumors to be identified, without the need for a biopsy. The findings were published online ahead of print in the Journal of ...



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