Scientists in Israel have devised a portable breath tester that detects lung cancer with 86 percent accuracy, according to a study released Sunday.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Aug 30, 2009 4.1 / 5 (7) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould.

Technology - Other

Aug 30, 2009 4 / 5 (10) 3

(AP) -- The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world's dominant strain of influenza, and it's putting a shockingly ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A large head-to-head study of two anti-clotting medications for heart patients has found that the investigational compound ticagrelor (Brilinta) was more effective at reducing cardiovascular death than the ...

Medicine & Health - Medications

Aug 30, 2009 4 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- Doctors don't know yet if it will take one dose or two of vaccine to protect against the new swine flu. Add that to vaccine for the regular winter flu, and it could be a multishot season for a lot of people - or ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Aug 30, 2009 4 / 5 (3) 0

(AP) -- Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence - and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world.

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 30, 2009 4.7 / 5 (78) 27

(AP) -- Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were ...

Technology - Internet

Aug 30, 2009 4.3 / 5 (8) 9

(AP) -- Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Aug 30, 2009 4.8 / 5 (16) 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Aug 30, 2009 4.8 / 5 (25) 1

A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.

Biology - Biotechnology

Aug 30, 2009 4 / 5 (3) 0

Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery, collaborating with researchers from other institutions, have contributed to the discovery that a gene called interferon regulator factor-8 (IRF-8) is involved in the development ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Aug 30, 2009 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Scientists have developed a new molecular sensor that can reveal the amount of zinc in cells, which could tell us more about a number of diseases, including type 2 diabetes. The research, published today in ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Aug 30, 2009 4.8 / 5 (5) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies of duplicated genome sequences and in doing initial assessments of their contents, according to a study to be published Aug. ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Aug 30, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Aug 30, 2009 4.3 / 5 (3) 2