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Longevity, cancer and diet connected: New research in worms could apply to humans

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered a connection between genes that could hold the key to a longer, healthier life.





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Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The larger the number of examinees, the lower the average grade. This is one of the findings of a series of new studies carried out by scientists at the University of Haifa and the University of Michigan. "It is a well-established ...


A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

Technology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...


Spider pill to seek out diseases

Spider pill to seek out diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- A remotely controlled 'spider pill' with eight moving legs and a miniature camera may become the next tool of choice in diagnosing cancers of the stomach and colon.


'Anti-Atkins' low protein diet extends lifespan in flies

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Flies fed an "anti-Atkins" low protein diet live longer because their mitochondria function better. The research, done at the Buck Institute for Age Research, shows that the molecular mechanisms responsible for the lifespan ...


New insights into cardiac aging

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the conserved protein d4eBP modulates cardiac aging in Drosophila (fruit flies). The team also found that d4eBP, which binds to the protein ...


Web site tracks world online censorship reports (AP)

Web site tracks world online censorship reports

Technology / Internet

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message.


Longevity pill on the horizon?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- While applauding findings that an Easter Island compound extends the lives of middle-aged mice, University of Washington longevity researchers caution that healthy people shouldn't start taking the drug in ...


Study pinpoints novel cancer gene and biomarker

Study pinpoints novel cancer gene and biomarker

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists' discovery of a cancer-causing gene - the first in its family to be linked to cancer - demonstrates how the panoramic view of genomics and the close-up ...


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New Opera technology allows simple content sharing

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Norway's Opera Software ASA on Tuesday launched a new feature for its Internet browser allowing users to share photos, music and files directly with one another, without needing to go through outside ...


US mulls stiffer sentences for common Net proxies

Technology / Internet

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(AP) -- "Proxy" servers are an everyday part of Internet surfing. But using one in a crime could soon lead to more time in the clink.



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