Archive: 08/01/2007
Scientists Make Flexible, Polymer-Based Data Storage
The future of the electronics industry is believed by many to lie in organic materials – polymers that conduct electricity. Because they are ultra lightweight, flexible, and low-cost, they may lead to a whole new class of ...
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Scientists find why red beans and rice can be nauseating
People cry foul when fowl is undercooked, but what about red beans and rice? Scientists have discovered how lectins, a family of proteins believed to be a natural insecticide that is abundant in undercooked legumes and grains, ...
Biology /
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. University of Chicago scientists describe the finding in a paper ...
Biology /
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Shining light on pancreatic cancer
Using novel light-scattering techniques, researchers have found the first evidence that early stage pancreatic cancer causes subtle changes in part of the small intestine. The easily monitored marker may ultimately ...
Aug 01, 2007 |
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Scientists move closer to bio-engineered bladders
Researchers at the University of York are using an understanding of the special cells that line the bladder to develop ways of restoring continence to patients with serious bladder conditions, including cancer.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 01, 2007 |
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