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New approach to cancer: Find most tightly controlled genes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists at a Duke University medical school in Singapore have found a new way to study cancer that could be very useful for developing targeted therapies against cancer and possibly many other diseases.





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Sewing DNA thread with lasers, hooks and microbobbins

Sewing DNA thread with lasers, hooks and microbobbins

Chemistry /

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a uniq ...


Low-sodium advice for asthmatics should be taken with a grain of salt

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research.


Virtual solution to driving phobias

Virtual solution to driving phobias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.


Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation

Researchers discover a new pathway that regulates inflammation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inflammation, the body's earliest response to damage or infection, can aid the healing process and trigger an immune response against invading pathogens. But inflammation gone awry can also undermine health, ...


The ends of mRNAs may prevent the beginnings of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The tail ends of cellular protein templates, regions often thought relatively inconsequential, may actually play a role in preventing normal cells from becoming cancerous.


Researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power pacemakers, cochlear implants ...


Too much calcium in blood may increase risk of fatal prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Men who have too much calcium in their bloodstreams may have an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer, according to a new analysis from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin.


Direct evidence that bioclocks control chromosome coiling

Direct evidence that bioclocks control chromosome coiling

Biology /

created Nov 21, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work. In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite ...


Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)

Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is nature's thinnest elastic material and displays exceptional mechanical and electronic properties. Its one-atom thickness, planar geometry, high current-carrying capacity and thermal ...


NIST team develops novel method for nanostructured polymer thin films

Team develops novel method for nanostructured polymer thin films

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 14, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

All researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs (chemically distinct polymers linked together) in order ...



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