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Highly-specialized, minimally-invasive surgery for lung cancer allows patient to go home sooner

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Minimally-invasive surgery for lung cancer called video-assisted thoracic surgery or VATS is a relatively new procedure performed almost exclusively at academic centers. Now, a preliminary study to be presented this month ...





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Genome sequence published for important biofuels yeast

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane into ethanol for biofuel has had its genome completely sequenced by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.


Get your own beer! Swine flu spreading on campus (AP)

Get your own beer! Swine flu spreading on campus

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the hallway.


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Tick saliva could hold cancer cure: Brazilian scientists

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 7

It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.


US expects far fewer swine flu shots in October

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The U.S. won't have nearly as much swine flu vaccine ready by mid-October as long predicted - 45 million doses instead of the anticipated 120 million, a federal official said Monday.


The use of wooden casks or steel tanks for Chardonnay influences its fermentative aroma

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

After analysing different points of the process of the transformation of grape juice to wine, Ms Ana González Marco concluded that the type of container (wooden cask or steel tank) employed notably influences the fermentative ...


DNA-based gel produces proteins without live cells

DNA-based gel produces proteins without live cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method developed by Cornell biological engineers offers an efficient way to make proteins for use in medicine or industry without the use of live cells. The proteins made in this way ...


Microcoils help locate small lung nodules

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new technique combining computed tomography (CT) with fiber-coated surgical microcoils allows physicians to successfully locate and remove small lung nodules without the need for a more invasive procedure, according to ...


Researchers find traces of mercury in high-fructose corn syrup

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2

A swig of soda or bite of a candy bar might be sweet, but a new study suggests that food made with corn syrup also could be delivering tiny doses of toxic mercury.


New technique makes corn ethanol process more efficient

New technique makes corn ethanol process more efficient

Technology / Energy

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient. They are ...


Rapid escalation characterizes virus/host arms race

Rapid escalation characterizes virus/host arms race

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created May 22, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The interaction between a virus and its host is often portrayed as an arms race, with each new viral attack parried by the host and each new defense by the host one-upped by the virus.



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