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Anti-microbial catheter to cut infection risk for dialysis patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Medical experts at The University of Nottingham have shown that an innovative anti-microbial catheter could vastly improve treatment and the quality of life for many community-based dialysis patients.





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Scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus

Medicine & Health / Research

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Ebola virus, which, though rare, is one of the deadliest viruses on the planet killing between 50 and 90 percent of ...


White, but not pure

White, but not pure

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Even the snow on Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes is polluted with PCBs. An international team of researchers detected low concentrations of these toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds in samples taken from ...


Bella Center in Copenhagen, the venue of upcoming COP15 Climate Summit

Silicon Valley getting greener with Hara

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fresh from signing on to help green Silicon Valley, startup Hara will be at climate talks in Copenhagen this week to urge that corporations not wait for regulations to fight global warming.


Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...


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 ...


Broadband stimulus moves at dial-up speeds

Technology / Telecom

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

Mark Morgenthaler wants nothing more than to hire 15 people to help expand his wireless Internet service, Surfnet Communications in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He can't wait to start accepting applications, interviewing candidates, ...


Turbulence around heat transport

Turbulence around heat transport

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat transport in the earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought.


Videos can help cancer patients choose level of care they prefer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Patients with terminal brain cancer who watched a brief video illustrating options for end-of-life care were significantly more likely to indicate a preference for comfort measures only than were patients who listened to ...


Soy peptide lunasin has anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory properties

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Two new University of Illinois studies report that lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation ...


Arts and sciences join to develop greener, more efficient conferences and exhibits

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Santanu Majumdar spent his years as a graphic design graduate student developing a project that might sound counterintuitive for a student of fine arts - a software program made to simplify information gathering at conferences ...



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