Archive: 02/15/2007
Researchers discover new details about HIV-1 entry and infection
The primary targets of HIV-1 infection in the human vagina have been definitively identified in a new study published in the February 2007 issue of the journal Immunity, published by Cell Press. The findings are likely to gui ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Researchers untangle nature of 'regressive evolution' in cavefish
"Regressive evolution," or the reduction of traits over time, is the result of either natural selection or genetic drift, according to a study on cavefish by researchers at New York University's Department of Biology, the ...
Biology /
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Coldest lab to simulate hot physics of early universe
Cheng Chin will make a vacuum chamber in his laboratory the coldest place in Chicago in order to simulate the impossibly hot conditions that followed the big bang during the earliest moments of the universe.
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Metabolic disease too easily missed
Dutch researcher Terry Derks has demonstrated that the metabolic disease MCAD deficiency can be detected at an early stage. At present the disease is only found in half of the expected number of patients. With the help of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Rats' senses a whisker away from humans
The sophisticated way in which rats use their whiskers in their surrounding environments show significant parallels with how humans use their fingertips, according to new research carried out at the University ...
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Nanotube, heal thyself
Pound for pound, carbon nanotubes are stronger and lighter than steel, but unlike other materials, the miniscule cylinders of carbon – which are no wider than a strand of DNA – remain remarkably robust even when chunks of ...
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Active lifestyle reduces risk of invasive breast cancer
Six or more hours per week of strenuous recreational activity may reduce the risks of invasive breast cancer by 23 percent, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Scientists on the way to sifting out a cure for HIV
HIV may one day be able to be filtered from human blood saving the lives of millions of people, thanks to a world-first nano-membrane innovation by Queensland University of Technology scientists.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Rosetta correctly lined up for critical Mars swingby
ESA mission controllers have confirmed Rosetta is on track for a critical 250-km Mars swingby on 25 February. Engineers have started final preparations for the delicate operation, which includes an eclipse, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Investigating the trochus 'El Dorado'
Scientific and indigenous knowledge must join together to better manage disappearing marine resources in developing countries, such as shark, trochus, and sea cucumber stocks on the islands to Australia’s north.
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
As a night of bad sleep can have an adverse effect on an adult’s performance at work the next day, an insufficient amount of rest can also have a negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. ...
Feb 15, 2007 |
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MIT Graduate Wins $30,000 Prize for Building Climbing Device
Nathan Ball, graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, won this year's $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for invention of a device that makes the fantasy of leaping tall buildings in a single bound ...
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Grizzly bears feast on diverse diet
There’s no such thing as picky grizzly bears—they’ll eat almost anything they can find. A new University of Alberta study that tracked food habits of the Alberta grizzly bear living in the foothills sheds some ...
Biology /
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles
The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as “Google of the brain.” The atlas now has a companion or the brain’s working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 15, 2007 |
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HEX2 a success: 4-rocket aurora experiment launches from Poker Flat
An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapor trails in an ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2007 |
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