Archive: 03/05/2008
Physics breakthrough much ado about 'nothing'
How do scientists store nothing? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but the answer is causing a stir in the realm of quantum physics after two research teams, including one from the University of Calgary, have ...
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Sensor necklace aims to increase elderly and clinical trial participant drug compliance
Researchers now have a possible solution for the one in three adults who fail to take their medicines as prescribed by their doctors, as well as for everyone else who occasionally forgets: a sensor necklace ...
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Researcher identifies eye disease in canines
Sinisa Grozdanic, assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Iowa State University, has identified and named an eye disease not previously known. The disease, Immune-Mediated Retinopathy, or IMR, causes loss of function ...
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Researchers validate new model for breast cancer risk assessment in multiple ethnic groups
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a way to quickly estimate a woman's risk for invasive breast cancer. The new model, based on a measure of breast density that is already reported with ...
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Children of alcoholics: different brain regions effect who may or may not develop alcohol problems
Although children of alcoholics (COAs) have a greater risk of developing alcohol-use disorders (AUDs), not all COAs will develop AUDs. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain respon ...
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Newly developed anti-malarial medicine treats toxoplasmosis
A new drug that will soon enter clinical trials for treatment of malaria also appears to be 10 times more effective than the key medicine in the current gold-standard treatment for toxoplasmosis, a disease ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Sky's the limit for bee brain power
Families flocked to see the latest animated hit Bee Movie, but scientists from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have long embraced the bee for very different reasons.
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Cellular Construction Methods Emulated
Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different tasks. Such functional, nanostructured systems would also be useful ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 05, 2008 |
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The Wiimote as an interface bridging mind and body
The Nintendo Wii is an immensely popular source of videogame entertainment, but more recently, it has been adapted for a number of different uses, such as a tool for physical therapy and as a form of exercise for geriatri ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Slow slip and slide dynamics
Kim Psencik, a Ph.D. student in the division of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, was recently awarded the prestigious MARGINS Student Prize ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Warming climate may cause arctic tundra to burn
Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world’s arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought. The findings, published this week in the online journal, PLoS ON ...
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Schistosomiasis more debilitating than estimated
Public health researchers at Brown University have found that the health burden of an Asian strain of schistosomiasis is much more debilitating than previously thought.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Can moths or butterflies remember what they learned as caterpillars?
Butterflies and moths are well known for their striking metamorphosis from crawling caterpillars to winged adults. In light of this radical change, not just in body form, but also in lifestyle, diet and dependence on particular ...
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Hibernation-like behavior in Antarctic fish -- on ice for winter
Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation. Reporting this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the online journal from the Public Library of Sci ...
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