News tagged with damage control

NRL designs robot for shipboard firefighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers illuminate mechanisms that regulate DNA damage control and replication

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have demonstrated important new roles for the protein kinase complex Cdc7/Dbf4 or Cdc7/Drf1 (Ddk) in monitoring damage control during DNA replication and reinitiating ...

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Too much physical activity may lead to arthritis

Middle-aged men and women who engage in high levels of physical activity may be unknowingly causing damage to their knees and increasing their risk for osteoarthritis, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0