Archive: 04/30/2007
Fast Search Sides with Newspapers in Web Sales War
A Norwegian company that supplies search technology to business users is looking to help newspaper publishers make more money from online advertising without sharing it with big Internet services.
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Unicellular microRNA discovery
In the May 15th issue of Genes & Development, an international collaboration of researchers, led by Dr. Yijun Qi (National Institute of Biological Sciences, China), report on their discovery of microRNAs in the unicellular green ...
Biology /
Apr 30, 2007 |
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A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors
Tart cherries may be good for more than just making pie, according to new data from an animal study conducted by University of Michigan Health System researchers and presented today at a major scientific meeting.
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Your brain and hormones may conspire to make you fat
Why do some people get fat even when they eat relatively little? What creates that irresistible urge for a bag of potato chips or a hunk of chocolate cake, as opposed to a nice crisp apple? Can food urges be irresistible?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, the human version of mad cow disease, and other degenerative diseases are more closely related at the molecular level than scientists realized, a ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Mice with a migraine show signs of brain damage
Migraines may be doing more than causing people skull-splitting pain. Scientists have found evidence that the headaches may also be acting like tiny transient strokes, leaving parts of the brain starved for oxygen and altering ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Artificial snot enhances electronic nose
Researchers at The University of Warwick and Leicester University have used an artificial snot (nasal mucus) to significantly enhance the performance of electronic noses.
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Scientists find new agent to fight genetic disorders -- Zorro-Locked Nucleic Acid
A study to appear in the June 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal describes a new agent, called "Zorro-LNA," which has the potential to stop genetic disorders in their tracks. In the study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute ...
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Manipulating Magnetism for Future Data-Storage Devices
In an important step toward future data-storage technologies based on magnetism, a research group has determined how to control the magnetization of a “magnetic vortex,” a curling nanometer-sized magnetic ...
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Fish oil may help kidney disease sufferers
Fish oil, it's been touted as an answer to Alzheimers, arthritis and even weight-loss but now a Queensland University of Technology researcher will test its health benefits in people with chronic kidney disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2007 |
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How to look at dinosaur tracks
A new study appearing in the May issue of The Journal of Geology provides fascinating insight into the factors geologists must account for when examining dinosaur tracks. The authors studied a range of larger tracks from t ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Drama can help educate and motivate, research shows
Drama certainly has the power to entertain, but can it also change behavior? A play about substance abuse was successful at prompting audience members to participate in substance abuse prevention activities, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 30, 2007 |
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'Supermap' of avian flu yields new info on source, spread
Scientists here have designed a new, interactive map of the spread of the avian flu virus (H5N1) that for the first time incorporates genetic, geographic and evolutionary information that may help predict ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2007 |
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South Florida heading for serious drought
Despite heavy rains during the past month, scientists say South Florida is on its way to a serious drought.
Apr 30, 2007 |
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