News tagged with beta
Planet hunters no longer blinded by the light
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona astronomers have developed a way to see faint planets previously hidden in their star's glare. The new mode enables scientists to search for planets closer to the star ...
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Studies demonstrate link among Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome and atherosclerosis
Nearly 20 years ago Huntington Potter kicked up a storm of controversy with the idea that Down syndrome and Alzheimer's were the same disease. Now the evidence is in: He was right.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 16, 2010 |
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Glasgow scientists predict mass of new particle
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the University of Glasgow has predicted the mass of a new particle which would help explain one of the fundamental forces of the universe.
Jan 26, 2010 |
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WOWD, the real-time search engine
(PhysOrg.com) -- The beta version of WOWD, the Internet's newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It aims to differentiate itself from other search engines ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice
Crack open the latest medical textbook to the chapter on type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, and you'll be hard pressed to find the term "immunology" anywhere. This is because metabolic conditions and immunologic conditions ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Stalking the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hunt for the elusive neutrino mass has officially begun. This difficult-to-detect elementary particle travels close to the speed of light, is electrically neutral, and can pass through ...
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Proteins linked to longevity also linked to Alzheimer's
Over the past 20 years, scientists have learned that proteins called sirtuins play a vital role in longevity and stress response in organisms as diverse as humans, yeast and mice. A new paper from MIT biologists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Drug prevents Type 2 diabetes in majority of high-risk individuals
A pill taken once a day in the morning prevented type 2 diabetes in more than 70 percent of individuals whose obesity, ethnicity and other markers put them at highest risk for the disease, U.S. scientists reported today.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Exoplanet caught on the move (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. It is located about 60 light-years away towards the ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Peptides Can Repair Damaged Heart Tissue
(PhysOrg.com) -- A startup company, CardioHeal, based in Brookline, MA has developed peptide drugs that can speed up the growth of new heart muscle cells.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 16, 2010 |
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E. coli metabolism reversed for speedy production of fuels, chemicals
In a biotechnological tour de force, Rice University engineering researchers this week unveiled a new method for rapidly converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. In a paper published ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Google Chrome 5 beta released
(PhysOrg.com) -- Internet search engine giant Google has released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, and it is visibly much faster than the previous version, and faster than most other browsers.
May 06, 2010 |
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Brain implant reveals the neural patterns of attention
A paralyzed patient implanted with a brain-computer interface device has allowed scientists to determine the relationship between brain waves and attention.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Insulin-releasing switch discovered
Johns Hopkins researchers believe they have uncovered the molecular switch for the secretion of insulin — the hormone that regulates blood sugar — providing for the first time an explanation of this process. In ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2011 |
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'Magic number' 695 opens up new areas for Alzheimer's research
Alzheimer's disease is widely believed to be caused by the gradual accumulation in the brain of amyloid-beta peptide which is toxic to nerve cells. Amyloid beta peptide is formed from a protein known as APP, which is found ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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