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Turning metal black more than just a novelty

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.


Study Unravels Detail of 'Most Important' Cellular Signal

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study provides crucial details that promise to help researchers better understand, and perhaps fine-tune with drugs, one of the most important signaling mechanisms in human cells, according to a study ...


Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the same artificial intelligence (AI) underlying NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now streamlining patient care at Strong Memorial Hospital, helping radiologists and technologists ...


Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction

Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancestor of the AIDS virus hijacked an entire gene, perhaps from some prehistoric cat it had infected, a gene that makes it much better able to infect humans, according to a study published ...


Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...


Study redefines placebo effect as part of effective treatment

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers used the placebo effect to successfully treat psoriasis patients with one quarter to one half of their usual dose of a widely used steroid medication, according to an early study published online today in the ...


Study identifies those elderly most at risk for major depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression.


Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.


Vitamin D levels associated with survival in lymphoma patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study has found that the amount of vitamin D in patients being treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was strongly associated with cancer progression and overall survival. The results will be presented at the annual ...


Arizona State and Mayo Clinic partner to combat metabolic syndrome

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic in Arizona are joining forces in a partnership to investigate metabolic syndrome - a cluster of high-risk medical factors that include increased blood pressure, elevated insulin levels, ...



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