Archive: 09/10/2007
How vitamin C stops the big 'C'
Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Embryonic stem cells thrive when shaken
Embryos spend much of their time in the womb bobbing along with a mother’s movement, and, surprisingly enough, new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University suggests that embryonic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Human C-reactive protein regulates myeloma tumor cell growth and survival
Scientists report that a protein best known as a common marker of inflammation plays a key role in the progression of human cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the September issue of the journal Cancer Cell, ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Women less likely than men to change habits that increase heart disease risk
Smoking, eating fattening foods and not getting enough exercise are all lifestyle habits that can lead to poor health and cardiovascular disease – more so if you have a family history. But researchers at UT Southwestern Medical ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Tiny tubes and rods show promise as catalysts, sunscreen
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a material used in a variety of industrial and ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Stem cell research produces a key discovery for Fragile X Syndrome
An important finding has been made by McMaster researchers about Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), a sex-linked genetic disorder that affects approximately one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Implantable device designed to detect, stop seizures under study
A small device implanted in the skull that detects oncoming seizures, then delivers a brief electrical stimulus to the brain to stop them is under study at the Medical College of Georgia.
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Drawing nanoscale features the fast and easy way
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Researchers identify signaling protein for multiple myeloma
Researchers at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute are the first to discover a mechanism that plays a critical role in the multiple myeloma cell cycle and survival. Their research may result in identification of a ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes
While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Magnets can boost production of ethanol for fuel
In a finding that could reduce the cost of ethanol fuel, researchers in Brazil report success in using low frequency magnetic waves to significantly boost the amount of ethanol produced through the fermentation of sugar. ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Blocking formation of toxic plaques implicated in type 2 diabetes
Amid growing evidence that the same abnormal clumping of proteins in Alzheimer’s disease also contributes to type-2 diabetes, scientists in New York are reporting discovery of a potent new compound that reduces formation ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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PCBs may threaten killer whale populations for 30-60 years
Orcas or killer whales may continue to suffer the effects of contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for the next 30 – 60 years, despite 1970s-era regulations that have reduced overall PCB concentrations ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Researchers uncover novel mechanism that balances the sizes of functional areas in the brain
In the cerebral cortex, the brain’s powerful central processing unit responsible for higher functions, specialized subdivisions known as areas are laid out like a map, but little is known about the genetic forces that shape ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Chemotherapy may be culprit for fatigue in breast cancer survivors
A new study finds that, compared to healthy women, breast cancer survivors reported more days of fatigue and more severe fatigue symptoms. The study, published in the October 15, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal ...
Sep 10, 2007 |
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