Archive: 05/25/2009
Web 2.0 application developed to recommend television programmes
A group of researchers from the University of Vigo, Spain, has developed a Web 2.0 application that filters the programming schedules of hundreds of television channels to recommend programmes that viewers ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 25, 2009 |
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Web service Twitter proposes TV competition series
(AP) -- Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody's doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.
May 25, 2009 |
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Heart saves muscle
A heart muscle protein can replace its missing skeletal muscle counterpart to give mice with myopathy a long and active life, show Nowak et al. The findings will be published online on Monday, May 25, 2009 ...
May 25, 2009 |
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More to Second Life than just sex
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3 dimensional virtual world of ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Australian team reveals world-first discovery in a 'floppy baby' syndrome
In a world first, West Australian scientists have cured mice of a devastating muscle disease that causes a Floppy Baby Syndrome - a breakthrough that could ultimately help thousands of families across the globe.
May 25, 2009 |
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Immune genes adapt to parasites
Thank parasites for making some of our immune proteins into the inflammatory defenders they are today, according to a population genetics study that will appear in the June 8 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine (onlin ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 25, 2009 |
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Scientists find shared genetic link between periodontitis and heart attack
The relationship between the dental disease periodontitis and coronary heart disease (CHD) has been known for several years. Although a genetic link seemed likely, until now its existence was uncertain. Now, for the first ...
May 25, 2009 |
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US won't speed up emissions cuts
Domestic politics will not allow the United States to deepen it commitment for cutting carbon pollution over the next decade despite growing international pressure, Washington's top climate negotiator said ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Colorful columns: Simple method for the production of microcylinders with multiple compartments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a microscope they look like tiny pie charts or colorful candy canes: A team led by Joerg Lahann at the University of Michigan has been able to produce micrometer-wide discs and elongated rods precisely ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Researchers reveal six new genome sequences and fundamental insights to the Candida fungus family
An international research collaboration coordinated by UCD (University College Dublin) researchers and involving scientists at 21 institutes including the genome sequencing centres in the Wellcome Trust Sanger ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'
A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 25, 2009 |
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Opposites attract -- how genetics influences humans to choose their mates
New light has been thrown on how humans choose their partners, a scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Maria da Graça Bicalho, head of the Immunogenetics and ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Head movement is more important than gender in nonverbal communication (w/Video)
It is well known that people use head motion during conversation to convey a range of meanings and emotions, and that women use more active head motion when conversing with each other than men use when they talk with each ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 25, 2009 |
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Scientists unlock mystery of potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have pinpointed the cellular defect that increases the likelihood, among eczema sufferers, of developing eczema vaccinatum, a severe and potentially fatal reaction ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 25, 2009 |
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Study says businesses can create clean energy jobs
(AP) -- The organizers of a global business summit on climate change say millions of new jobs would be created in the U.S. alone by relying almost entirely on renewable or low-carbon sources of electricity.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 25, 2009 |
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