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Test Detects Insect Carriers of Citrus Greening Disease

Test Detects Insect Carriers of Citrus Greening Disease

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With their pleasing flavor, cheerful color, and health-imparting dose of vitamin C, it's not surprising that oranges are one of America's Top 10 favorite fruits. But some of the nation's citrus ...


New microRNA Data Could Classify Bladder Cancer by Type

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, offers new insights into the biology of urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Specifically, microRNA profiles differ ...


Catching a killer one spore at a time

Catching a killer one spore at a time

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A workshop at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama has dramatically improved the ability of conservationists and regulatory agencies to monitor the spread of chytridiomycosis—one of the deadliest ...


Major advance in organic solar cells

Chemistry / Polymers

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Professor Guillermo Bazan and a team of postgraduate researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) today announced a major advance in the synthesis of organic polymers for plastic solar cells. ...


Goodbye 'R' rule? Oyster pathogen test may help make shellfish safer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- The oyster lover’s axiom of edibility -- that this shellfish is safest to eat in any month with an 'r' in it -- may soon become somewhat of a culinary anachronism, thanks to a new food-safety test developed ...


A Hazy View of Early Earth

A Hazy View of Early Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Haze in the early Earth atmosphere could have played a crucial role in the origin of life. By forming a protective shield, the haze would have safeguarded organic substances from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. ...


Transplanted Liver Cells Hold Hope for Treating Inherited Diseases

Transplanted Liver Cells Hold Hope for Treating Inherited Diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mike Gibson, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University, has spent most of his professional life trying to better understand genetic metabolic disorders ...


New beryllium reference material for occupational safety monitoring

New beryllium reference material for occupational safety monitoring

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium. ...


Building a complete metabolic model

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other institutions have constructed ...


Polyclonality of BRAF mutations in acquired melanocytic nevi

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

The polyclonality of BRAF mutations in melanocytic nevi suggests that mutation of BRAF may not be an initial event in melanocyte transformation, according to a new brief communication published online September 14 in the ...


Trust your gut? Study explores religion, morality and trust in authority

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

In a world filled with dogma, doctrine and discipline, it is accurate to say most of us strive to do what we believe is "right." These convictions and beliefs permeate every aspect of our lives, including education, ethics ...


Test developed at UQ diagnosed Australia's first swine flu victim

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When the first cases of H1N1 Influenza (swine flu) were reported in Mexico in April, UQ researchers got to work developing a test to diagnose the virus.


UC San Diego scientist's work will contribute to better understanding of nuclear ignition

New study will contribute to better understanding of nuclear ignition

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

As the nation's nuclear weapons are aging (think the beginning of the Cold War), the U.S. government is turning to researchers and scientists at universities such as UC San Diego to figure out safe and reliable ...


Fatal (fiscal) attraction: Tightwads and spendthrifts tend to marry (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to love and money, opposites really do attract, says a University of Michigan researcher.


A better test to detect DNA for diagnosing diease, investigating crimes

A better test to detect DNA for diagnosing diease, investigating crimes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers in Singapore are reporting development of a new electronic sensor that shows promise as a faster, less expensive, and more practical alternative than tests now used to detect DNA. Such tests are ...