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NEJM study points to new era in hepatitis C treatment
Jun 05, 2009 |
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For patients with the most common form of hepatitis C, the addition of a hepatitis C-specific protease inhibitor called telaprevir to the current standard therapy can significantly improve the chances of being cured, and ...
Findings uncover new details about mysterious virus
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has determined key structural features of the largest known virus, findings that could help scientists studying how the simplest life evolved and whether the unusual virus ...
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Software Helps Design Energy Stingy Buildings (w/ Video)
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new quick, easy to use and free software tool created by NREL developers seamlessly combines the building energy simulation of EnergyPlus with the popular drawing interface of Google's SketchUp, ...
Scientists get detailed glimpse of chemoreceptor architecture in bacterial cells
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors—the receptors that sense ...
What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: even ...
Sunlight Trap Could Lead to New Generation of Solar Devices
Jun 11, 2009 |
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In the Greek legend of Dionysius' ear, Dionysius made a cave shaped like an ellipse in order to hear the words whispered by a prisoner in one of the foci of the cave. Some science museums today feature a similar ...
Added anti-viral improves response, halves duration of hepatitis C treatment
Apr 30, 2009 |
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The addition of the anti-viral drug telaprevir to a standard treatment for hepatitis C can shorten the duration of therapy and increase the number of patients who can be cured of their disease, according to the results of ...
New drug hope for cystic fibrosis patients
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 09, 2008 |
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A new drug therapy may represent a tremendous step forward in the treatment of some 70,000 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients worldwide, Dr David Sheppard from the University of Bristol will tell an audience at the BA Festival ...
First particles observed in Large Hadron Collider
Aug 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month.
Nano sculptures in gold
Aug 01, 2008 |
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If someone is charged up, the colour of their face might change, but they don't immediately pull off one of their arms, only to reattach it as a third leg. With some molecules, however, the situation is quite ...
Nano-Softball Made of DNA
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 01, 2008 |
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For quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A team led by Günter von Kiedrowski at the Ruhr University in Bochum has now made ...
Large Hadron Collider: VELO -- in you go!
Nov 12, 2007 |
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One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been successfully installed in its final position. LHCb is one of four large experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ...
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