Archive: 01/16/2007
Sunshine pill for prostate cancer in 2009
A tablet designed to emulate the healing power of the sun could be available for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer as early as 2009. But it remains to be seen whether the drug will be the revolution in prostate cancer ...
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Powerful computer models reveal key biological mechanism
Using powerful computers to model the intricate dance of atoms and molecules, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have revealed the mechanism behind an important biological reaction. In collaboration ...
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Webb scope looks out of this world
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the orbiting infrared observatory designed to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope, is set to enable fundamental breakthroughs in our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, ...
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Researchers discover surprising drug that blocks malaria
Northwestern University researchers have discovered how malaria parasites persuade red blood cells to engulf them -- and how to block the invading parasites. The malaria marauders hack into the red cell's signaling system ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Step on the gas -- New fuel cell design adds control, reduces complexity
When Princeton University engineers want to increase the power output of their new fuel cell, they just give it a little more gas – hydrogen gas, to be exact. This simple control mechanism, which varies the flow of hydrogen ...
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Nanotechnology shows promise as next wrinkle fighter
The next big idea in preventing wrinkles is very, very small. Nano small.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Physicists discover structures of gold nanoclusters
Using different experimental techniques, two separate and independent research groups in collaboration with a team from the Center for Computational Materials Science (CCMS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ...
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Patients with amnesia 'live in the present'
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, have shown that people with damage to the hippocampus, the area of the brain that plays a crucial role in learning and memory, not only ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 16, 2007 |
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No proof that growth hormone therapy makes you live longer, study finds
Surveyors of anti-aging elixirs tout human growth hormone as a remedy for all things sagging-from skin to libidos - and claim it can even prevent or reverse aging. But researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Association of tuberculosis with smoking and indoor air pollution
Smokers have an increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection, TB disease, and of dying from TB compared to people who do not smoke.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 16, 2007 |
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40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits
Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week in the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 16, 2007 |
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New study to test Statin-Parkinson's link
Researchers are sufficiently worried by new study results that they are planning clinical trials involving thousands of people to examine the possible link between Parkinson's disease and statins, the world biggest selling ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Why are lions not as big as elephants?
Carnivores are some of the widest ranging terrestrial mammals for their size, and this affects their energy intake and needs. This difference is also played out in the different hunting strategies of small and large carnivores. ...
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