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Plasma levels of GGT and ALB and their genetic correlations with cardiovascular risk factors

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

Two indicators of liver function, Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) and albumin (ALB) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. It is known that the variation in the plasma level of these liver related proteins ...


Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...


NASA's Aqua satellite sees Nida explode into a category 5 Super typhoon

NASA's Aqua satellite sees Nida explode into a category 5 Super typhoon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Typhoon Nida is in a favorable environment that has enabled it to intensify faster and stronger than previously forecast, and has now exploded into a Super typhoon. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Nida and ...


Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.


NASA sees high thunderstorms in newly formed Tropical Cyclone 4A near India

NASA sees high thunderstorms in newly formed Tropical Cyclone 4A near India

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Tropical Cyclone 4A formed yesterday, November 10 off the western coast of India in the Arabian Sea, and NASA's infrared imagery captured some high, powerful thunderstorms developing in the storm's center.


Conserving historic apple trees

Conserving historic apple trees

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The apple trees of yesteryear are slowly disappearing. Many apple varieties common in the United States a century ago can no longer be found in today's orchards and nurseries. But some historic apple trees ...


Bacterial 'ropes' tie down shifting Southwest

Bacterial 'ropes' tie down shifting Southwest

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers from Arizona State University have discovered that several species of microbes (cyanobacteria), at least one found prominently in the deserts of the Southwest, have evolved the trait of rope-building ...


Sylvia atricapilla (Blackcap)

By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 1hour ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...


Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...


Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...



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