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Off-the-wall workout: Modified yoga poses help with stretching, balancing

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Many yoga classes use a wall as an occasional prop. But in Nancy McCaochan's classes, the wall is the star.


Strike a yoga pose to strike down stress

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When hyperventilating sometimes seems the only option to stress, Petri Brill has a healthier suggestion: yoga.





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Saved by junk DNA

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

VIB researchers linked to K.U.Leuven and Harvard University show that stretches of DNA previously believed to be useless 'junk' DNA play a vital role in the evolution of our genome. They found that unstable pieces of junk ...


Large DNA stretches, not single genes, shut off as cells mature

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Experiments at Johns Hopkins have found that the gradual maturing of embryonic cells into cells as varied as brain, liver and immune system cells is apparently due to the shut off of several genes at once rather than in individual ...


Scientists find a fingerprint of evolution across the human genome

Biology /

created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (37) | comments 6

The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion “letter” DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what ...


Scientists build a better DNA molecule

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created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Building faultless objects from faulty components may seem like alchemy. Yet scientists from the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Biological Chemistry Departments have achieved just that, ...


Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ...


New driver of brand extension success found by UM professor

Other Sciences / Other

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Brand extensions, like Jeep’s strollers, Maxim’s hair color, or Apple’s iTunes are lucrative ways that a brand can increase its revenue and customer base-or confuse and alienate them. In an increasingly borderless world in ...


The five day track forecast cone for Tropical Depression ONE

Season's first tropical depression forms in Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The first tropical depression of the north Atlantic's hurricane season formed Thursday and forecasters said it would likely reach tropical storm strength before petering out over open seas.


Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group, DNA study confirms

Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group, DNA study confirms

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 2

For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral ...


Traditional stretching doesn't help, studies find

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 9

Arvelle White lifts weights three or four times a week. Before he even looks at a dumbbell, though, he hops on a treadmill and runs for 20 minutes.


The Sun Shows Signs of Life

The Sun Shows Signs of Life

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (28) | comments 1

After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway ...



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