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Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden

A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...

Biology /

created Feb 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Are educators showing a 'positive bias' to minority students?

Remember that teacher you grumbled about back in your school days, the really tough one who made you work so hard, insisted you could do better, and made you sweat for your A's? The one you didn't appreciate until after you ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere

(AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study: paid family leave leads to positive economic outcomes

With a growing need for family-friendly workplace policies, a new study commissioned by the National Partnership for Women & Families, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, concludes that providing paid family leave ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Inhaled nanoparticles deliver potent anticancer cocktail to lung tumors and block resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ideal treatment for lung cancer would be one that could be inhaled deep into lung tissue where it would deliver tumor-killing agents that would then largely stay in the lungs, avoiding the toxicities that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flowing along in four dimensions

In 1988, John Cardy asked if there was a c-theorem in four dimensions. At the time, he reasonably expected his work on theories of quantum particles and fields to be professionally put to the test… But ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Exploring the inner workings of materials

Growing up in an “idyllic” area of farms and orchards in southern New Jersey, Krystyn Van Vliet had little exposure to science or technology. And yet, it was that very environment that she credits with kindling ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists probe the energy transfer process in photosynthetic proteins

Researchers have developed a new method to probe the fundamental workings of photosynthesis. The new experimental technique could help scientists better understand the nitty-gritty details of nature's amazingly efficient ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NJ court: No shield law for message board posters (Update)

(AP) -- People who post to online message boards don't have the same protections as mainstream journalists when it comes to keeping their sources secret, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Rutgers says male, female students can share room

(AP) -- New Jersey's flagship state university has decided to allow male and female students to share rooms in three dorms in an effort to make the Rutgers' New Brunswick campus more inclusive for gay students after a highly ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Impulsive behavior in males increases after periods of heavy drinking

Alcohol is known to cause an increase in impulsive behavior in individuals, which can not only be dangerous for themselves, but for others as well. A new study on adolescent males indicate that risky behavior may actually ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 4


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