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Packaging expert sees a social revolution in the evolving barcode

What if you could trace the history of everything you buy back to its origins? Using your smart phone camera, you could learn what factory made the ingredients in your heart medication, what country grew the ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Insulin, nutrition prevent blood stem cell differentiation in fruit flies

UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that insulin and nutrition keep blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood cells in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a finding that has implications for studying inflammatory ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows family solution to teen troubles

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you keep at-risk teens off drugs and out of trouble? According to a new University of Georgia study, family can make a difference.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Climate change downsizing fauna, flora: study

Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 21

Breaking chemistry's bad rap

Breaking Bad, cable channel AMC's popular series chronicling the dark transformation of Walter White from suburban chemistry high school teacher to crystal meth master chef and criminal mastermind, makes chemistry entertaining ...

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diabetes becomes a disease of the young

Some people say aiming to look sleek in your swimsuit or wedding duds is the biggest motivator for losing weight. But Mike Durbin's incentive for dropping pounds beats all.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pilot study examines stress, anxiety and needs of young women with a unique breast cancer

When an aggressive form of breast cancer strikes a young woman, what kind of stress, anxiety and other psychological and social challenges does she face?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Voice-based cell-phone system: Improving the lives of farmers in the developing world?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can mobile phone–based information improve the lives of farmers in the developing world? And can these farmers use their phones to share knowledge and skills with other farmers?

Technology / Other

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UT MD Anderson receives grant for study of acupuncture in cancer

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has been awarded a grant to study whether xerostomia, a debilitating side effect caused by head and neck cancer radiation treatment, can be prevented when acupuncture is part ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer study says it's different for younger women

The stress, anxiety and psychosocial burdens of young women with breast cancer differ from those of older women. Young women are starting careers, relationships and families, and while their peer group is ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds usage of, recommendations for supplements common within various physician specialties

For physicians within several medical specialties, including dermatology, cardiology and orthopedics, personal usage of and patient recommendations for dietary supplements are quite common, according to a study published ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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