UCLA researchers have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a peptide that mimics the actions of good cholesterol when consumed.
Biotechnology
Mar 19, 2013
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Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever hunt for the condition in mummies.
Archaeology
Mar 11, 2013
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VIB scientists associated to the UGent have developed a mouse model that can advance the research on iPS cells to the next step.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 21, 2013
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Robert C. Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died. He was 75.
General Physics
Feb 20, 2013
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Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs that will allow drug-carrying nanoparticles to navigate tissues and the interiors of cells, but University of Michigan engineers have discovered that these particles ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 5, 2013
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A Murdoch University PhD candidate envisions a future in which everyone wears a low-energy sensor to monitor their health – and he's doing the computing work to make it a reality.
Engineering
Dec 18, 2012
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(AP)—The Obama administration on Friday imposed a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources of pollution in its ...
Environment
Dec 14, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Stanford scientists have developed a fluorescence imaging technique that allows them to view the pulsing blood vessels of living animals with unprecedented clarity. Compared with conventional imaging techniques, ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 2, 2012
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Thomas Webster, the new chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, keeps a titanium hip implant on his desk. "If you look at bone or any natural tissue in the body, it's composed of nanomaterials," ...
Other
Oct 18, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel technology that can fabricate, in mere seconds, microscale three dimensional (3D) structures out of soft, biocompatible hydrogels. ...
Nanophysics
Sep 13, 2012
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