Archive: 11/30/2006
Healthy bodies help fight disease? Clues to how diet affects the immune system
Scientists are proposing that dietary fats can affect how well our immune system works and have discoveredthat one of the earliest steps in immune system activation relies on a molecule that binds fats.
Nov 30, 2006 |
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Living view in animals shows how cells decide to make proteins
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have visualized in a living animal how cells use a critical biological process to dice and splice genetic material to create unique and varied proteins.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2006 |
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New wide-angle lens produces pictures without distortion
South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free wide-angle image. Standing in contrast to commonly ...
Nov 30, 2006 |
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Speakers of different languages perceive rhythm differently
Do the sounds of our native languages affect how we hear music and other non-language sounds" A team of American and Japanese researchers has found evidence that native languages influence the way people group non-language ...
Nov 30, 2006 |
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It's Official: Discovery is Go for Launch on Dec. 7
NASA senior managers have wrapped up the two-day flight readiness review at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At a press conference immediately following the review, William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2006 |
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