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Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Disease clusters showing up all over the United States

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think of the term 'disease clusters', the cancer cluster in Hinkley, California made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich usually comes to mind. However, the Natural Resour ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene

Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

All genes in one go

The majority of rare diseases are hereditary. But despite significant progress in genome research, in most cases their exact cause remains unclear. The discovery of the underlying genetic defect is, however, ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists design new delivery device for gene therapy

Scientists have designed a nanoparticle that appears to effectively deliver genetic material into cells with minimal toxic effects.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers Present New Sex Evolution Theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harris Bernstein and Carol Bernstein have proposed a new theory on the billion-year-old mystery of sexual reproduction evolution.

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new approach to medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Connecticut researchers are exploring how to take a patient's own cells, re-engineer them, and replace them in the body.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Key to how cells, including cancer, migrate and invade the body discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has identified unexpected and powerful cell-regulating functions in a protease known as ADAM 13, a discovery that holds promise for ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Skin color: Handy tool for teaching evolution

Variations in skin color provide one of the best examples of evolution by natural selection acting on the human body and should be used to teach evolution in schools, according to a Penn State anthropologist.

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 55

Defect in graphene may present bouquet of possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- A class of decorative, flower-like defects in the nanomaterial graphene could have potentially important effects on the material's already unique electrical and mechanical properties, according ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers report progress using iPS cells to reverse blindness

Researchers have used cutting-edge stem cell technology to correct a genetic defect present in a rare blinding disorder, another step on a promising path that may one day lead to therapies to reverse blindness ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genome editing, a next step in genetic therapy, corrects hemophilia in animals

Using an innovative gene therapy technique called genome editing that hones in on the precise location of mutated DNA, scientists have treated the blood clotting disorder hemophilia in mice. This is the first time that genome ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Damaging graphene to create a band gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switch ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists grow pleats in two-dimensional curved spaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- A design feature well known in skirts and trousers has now been identified in curved, two-dimensional crystals. As University of Chicago physicist William Irvine and his colleagues report ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cause of skin cancer that heals itself found

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has identified the key gene causing a rare type of skin cancer that grows rapidly for a few weeks or months but then heals itself.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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