News tagged with model system
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Advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases
Multiple sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, and other conditions caused by a loss of myelin insulation around nerves can be debilitating and even deadly, but adequate treatments do not yet exist. That's in large part because ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Disruption of immune-system pathway key step in cancer progression
Human immune cells communicate constantly with one another as they coordinate to fight off infection and other threats. Now researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine have shown that muffling a key voice in this ...
May 18, 2009 |
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Birds of a feather: Study finds particles, molecules prefer not to mix
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, according to findings from a new study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 04, 2009 |
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Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism
Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Fire influences global warming more than previously thought
Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Pesticide exposure found to increase risk of Parkinson's disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fertile soil of California's Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation's prime crop-growing regions. But it's not just the soil that allows for such productivity. Crops ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 21, 2009 |
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UH team helps NASA improve navigation systems for lunar exploration
If NASA is going to successfully establish a permanent human presence on the moon, it must be able to accurately track and direct its crew members and exploration vehicles, and the space agency has charged a University of ...
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Researchers break the animal kingdom's colour code
Charles Darwin was fascinated by the colours of animals - he once wrote to his colleague Alfred Russell Wallace asking why certain animals were "so
beautifully and artistically coloured".
Apr 16, 2009 |
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SIMONE's email feel-good factor
A computer model called SIMONE, for Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, could help solve ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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New method to stimulate immune system may be effective at reducing amyloid burden in Alzheimer's
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a novel way to stimulate the innate immune system of mice with Alzheimer's disease (AD) - leading to reduced amyloid deposits and the prevention of Alzheimer's disease ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Data from NYHOPS assists rescue efforts in Flight 1549 emergency
With its unique location along the western bank of the Hudson River, Stevens Institute of Technology provided a dramatic front row venue for the emergency landing and successful rescue of U.S. Airways Flight 1549.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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