Archive: 02/20/2007
New research finds people and pigeons see eye to eye
Pigeons and humans use similar visual cues to identify objects, a finding that could have promising implications in the development of novel technologies, according to new research conducted by a University ...
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Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky
Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers have been ...
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Nanotubes transport gene therapy drug into T-cells known to block HIV from entering cells in vitro
A promising approach to gene therapy involves short DNA fragments (interfering RNA) that bind to specific genes and block their "translation" into the corresponding, disease-related protein. A stumbling block has been the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Researchers find that chronic dizziness may be caused by psychiatric and neurologic illnesses
Approximately 9 million to 15 million people in the U.S. suffer from recurrent bouts of dizziness and 3 million experience symptoms of dizziness nearly every day. According to a paper that appears in the February issue of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Gene profiling predicts resistance to breast cancer drug Herceptin
Using gene chips to profile tumors before treatment, researchers at Harvard and Yale Universities found markers that identified breast cancer subtypes resistant to Herceptin, the primary treatment for HER2-positive breast ...
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Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton’s speculations were impossible to test scientifically, until now. A novel Brandeis ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Study links attempted suicide with genetic evidence identified in previous suicide research
A Johns Hopkins-led study has found evidence that a genetic tendency toward suicide has been linked to a particular area of the genome on chromosome 2 that has been implicated in two additional recent studies of attempted ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Spearmint tea -- A possible treatment for mild hirsutism
Women with hirsutism grow hair on their faces, breasts and stomachs. This can cause great distress. The hair grows because they have abnormally high levels of the ‘masculinising’ androgen hormones. Androgens travel around ...
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Potential for malaria transmission higher than previously thought
Each year, malaria results in more than a million deaths. Controlling this disease involves understanding its transmission, and understanding its transmission means understanding its basic reproductive number, R0. For all ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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The mysterious case of Columbus's silver ore
Silver-bearing ore found at the settlement founded by Christopher Columbus's second expedition was not mined in the Americas, new research reveals. The ore that researchers excavated from the settlement, La ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Practice of farming reaches back farther than thought
Ancient people living in Panama were processing and eating domesticated species of plants like maize, manioc, and arrowroot at least as far back as 7,800 years ago – much earlier than previously thought – according to new ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Adobe Ships Photoshop Lightroom 1.0
Adobe Systems announced that its Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 software is now out of beta and available for customers at a special introductory price of US $199. New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the professional ...
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtles
North American marine turtles are at risk if global warming occurs at predicted levels, according to scientists from the University of Exeter. An increase in temperatures of just one degree Celsius could completely eliminate ...
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Why is the heart heart-shaped?
How does the heart attain its characteristic shape? Shape may be sculpted by cell movement, cell division, or changes in cell size and shape, all of which can be influenced by the local environment. The heart appears as ...
Biology /
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Study shows genetic link for schizophrenia
Gene mutations governing a key brain enzyme make people susceptible to schizophrenia and may be targeted in future treatments for the psychiatric illness, according to MIT and Japanese researchers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 20, 2007 |
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