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Cancer drug delivery research cuts time from days to hours

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a technique that has the potential to deliver cancer-fighting drugs to diseased areas within hours, as opposed to the two days it currently takes for existing ...





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RXR activation -- hope for new Parkinson's disease treatment

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

Following up on their previous work showing the rescue of dopamine neurons by chemicals that interact with the retinoid X receptor (RXR), researchers have now investigated the potential of these chemicals, known as RXR ligands, ...


Helpful or creepy? Overpersonalized Web sites may spook shoppers

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Michael Redding describes the get-to-know-you game between man and machine as a version of "Name That Tune."


Why does percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy fail to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is a common problem in mechanically ventilated patients and contributes to the development of esophageal mucosal injury and even erosive esophagitis. The relationship between percutaneous endoscopic ...


Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...


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Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor Pat Guiry have solved a chemistry problem that has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...


Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of arsenic poisoning usually brings to mind underhanded murder. However, the danger of arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water is far greater. Low concentrations of arsenic are found in ...


Alarming trend -- antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates ...


Factors from common human bacteria may trigger multiple sclerosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Current research suggests that a common oral bacterium may exacerbate autoimmune disease. The related report by Nichols et al, "Unique Lipids from a Common Human Bacterium Represent a New Class of TLR2 Ligands Capable of ...


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...



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