Archive: 11/22/2006
Getting to the heart of the heart
Helping to change scientists' thinking about how the heart is formed, investigators at Children's Hospital Boston have identified a type of stem cell that gives rise to at least two different cell types that make up the heart's ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Zinc plays important role in brain circuitry
To the multitude of substances that regulate neuronal signaling in the brain and spinal cord add a new key player: zinc. By engineering a mouse with a mutation affecting a neuronal zinc target, researchers have demonstrated ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2006 |
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On the cutting edge: Carbon nanotube cutlery
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder have designed a carbon nanotube knife that, in theory, would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer.
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food
Children who were allergic to eggs were able to essentially overcome their allergy by gradually consuming increased quantities of eggs over time, researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Arkansas ...
Nov 22, 2006 |
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NIST Test Fans the Flames for High-Rise Fire Safety
Reseearchers from NIST, the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Housing Authority recently set controlled fires in an abandoned Chicago apartment building to test a new fire-fighting technique -- using ...
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Mind the gap: New information on the hydrophobic water gap
Researchers have found a gap between water and a water-repelling surface that can give new insight into the way water and oil separate. By using high-energy X-rays at the ESRF, an international team defined ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Researchers target multiple sclerosis
U.S. scientists say they have developed a substance that inhibits the progress of multiple sclerosis in an animal model.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Researcher talks turkey on Thanksgiving dinner droop
When it comes to the myth that Thanksgiving dinner makes us sleepy, Judith Wurtman takes the side of the big roast bird.
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Plague proteome reveals proteins linked to infection
Recreating growth conditions in flea carriers and mammal hosts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have uncovered 176 proteins and likely proteins in the plague-bacterium Yersinia pestis whose numbers rise ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2006 |
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The evolution of intelligence, and why our brains have shrunk
One of the main differences between humans and other animals is our larger brain size—but what prompted and guided this growth? Wanting to better understand the origins of human uniqueness, scientists from ...
Biology /
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance observes inhibitors bound to enzymes
A team of researchers led by Professor Paul Malthouse, principal investigator with the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology and UCD Conway Institute, uses state-of-the-art NMR equipment to study a range ...
Biology /
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Researchers shine light on atomic transistor
Researchers from TU Delft and the FOM Foundation (Netherlands) have successfully measured transport through a single atom in a transistor. This research offers new insights into the behaviour of so-called dopant ...
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Patterns on tropical marine mollusc shell mirror gene expression patterns
Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and colour patterns on the shell of the tropical marine mollusc referred to as ‘abalone’. A study published today in the open ...
Biology /
Nov 22, 2006 |
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'Nymph of the sea' reveals remarkable brood
The scientists discovered the mother complete with her brood of some 20 eggs and 2 possible juveniles inside, together with other details of her soft part anatomy including legs and eyes.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 22, 2006 |
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