Archive: 08/22/2008
Rapid test for pathogens developed by K-State researchers
Dangerous disease often spreads faster than it takes to diagnose it in the lab. To remedy that, researchers at Kansas State University have developed a test to bring that time from days down to hours.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Elephant legs are much bendier than Shakespeare thought
Throughout history, elephants have been thought of as 'different'. Shakespeare, and even Aristotle, described them as walking on inflexible column-like legs. And this myth persists even today. Which made John Hutchinson from ...
Biology /
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Cancer therapy: A role for MAPK inhibitors combined with mTORC1 inhibitors
Nearly a decade ago, while it was being tested as an immunosuppressive agent to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, the drug rapamycin was also discovered to have anti-tumor properties. Since then, several rapamycin ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Positive thinking may protect against breast cancer
Feelings of happiness and optimism play a positive role against breast cancer. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Cancer suggests that while staying positive has a protective role, adverse life events ...
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Study shows improved quality of life for older women on HRT
New evidence published shows that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can improve the health related quality of life of older women. HRT guidelines should be reviewed in light of this evidence, say the authors.
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Malaria researchers identify new mosquito virus
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute have identified a previously unknown virus that is infectious to Anopheles gambiae—the mosquito primarily respon ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 22, 2008 |
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MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures
MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Earthquakes may endanger New York more than formerly believed
A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2008 |
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FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation
They have worked for almost seven years in secret. Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner's materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information ...
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Sign language over a mobile phone
A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this ...
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention
Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a one-on-one conversation within a cluster of people, switch to another, pick up important comments while tuning out others, change topics and return ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Drugs to inhibit blood vessel growth show promise in rat model of deadly brain tumor
In a landmark study, Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee report that drugs used to inhibit a specific fatty acid in rat brains with glioblastoma-like tumors not only reduced new blood vessel growth and tumor ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 22, 2008 |
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