News tagged with reaction
Research indicates toddlers can become ageists by three
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places. For Sheree Kwong See, it happened during a testing session with a subject while conducting a study on language and cognitive changes ...
Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of ACS symposium (w/ Video)
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history — next year's initial attempts at ...
Older Drivers Recognize Their Shortcomings, Except One
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many drivers over age 70 realize that their reaction time is slower so they naturally compensate by driving more carefully, says Matthew Romoser, who studies age-related physical and cognitive ...
Fine-tuning an anti-cancer drug
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Cancer remains a deadly threat despite the best efforts of science. New hopes were raised a few years ago with the discovery that the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells could be thwarted by blocking the action ...
Math model accurately mimics cell division in carbon-cycling bacterium
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Department of Biological Sciences and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have developed a quantitative, mathematical model of DNA replication and cell division for the bacterium ...
A new way to prepare fluorinated pharmaceuticals
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of MIT chemists has devised a new way to add fluorine to a variety of compounds used in many drugs and agricultural chemicals, an advance that could offer more flexibility and potential cost-savings ...
Bone-cell control of energy generation is regulated by the protein Atf4
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Bone cells known as osteoblasts were recently shown to have a role in controlling the biochemical reactions that generate energy via secretion of the molecule osteocalcin. Gerard Karsenty and colleagues, at Columbia University ...
How to make negative services less unpleasant for consumers
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Service quality beliefs are usually positively related to customer satisfaction - the higher the perceived service quality, the higher the customer's satisfaction. However, an article published in the August issue of the ...
Do promises matter to employees? Not as much as we once thought
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Years of research suggest that the promises organizations make to employees matter in establishing and maintaining a "psychological contract" between the two parties. However, new research by Samantha Montes and co-author ...
New links between lucid dreaming and psychosis could revive dream therapy in psychiatry
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Similarities in brain activity during lucid dreaming and psychosis suggest that dream therapy may be useful in psychiatric treatment, a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop has found. This is strengthened by the potential ...
Monitoring Cancer Cell Changes With Quantum Dots
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 23, 2009 |
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One of the earliest events that changes a normal cell into a malignant one is known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hypermethylation, a biochemical alteration that inactivates critical tumor-suppressor genes. A team of investigators ...
Researchers Suggest New Approach in Development Efforts for Parkinson’s Therapeutics
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers outline today a new approach in the potential development of drugs to counter a cellular defect that triggers Parkinson’s and other diseases.
Faster, more cost-effective DNA test for crime scenes, disease diagnosis
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Scientists in Japan are reporting development of a faster, less expensive version of the fabled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) a DNA test widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, biological ...
World's first as fuel cell aircraft takes off in Germany
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The world's first piloted aircraft capable of taking to the air using only power from fuel cells took off in Germany Tuesday, producing zero carbon dioxide emissions, its makers said.
Ultrasensitive detector promises improved treatment of viral respiratory infections
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes ...
