News tagged with small effect

Strong immune response to new siRNA drugs in development may cause toxic side effects

Small synthetic fragments of genetic material called small interfering RNA (siRNA) can block production of abnormal proteins; however, these exciting new drug candidates can also induce a strong immune response, causing toxic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Use of antidepressants associated with improvement in symptoms of fibromyalgia

The use of antidepressant medications by patients with fibromyalgia syndrome is associated with a reduction in pain, sleep disturbances and depressed mood and improvement of health-related quality of life, according to an ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Risks of boomerangs a reality in world of cyberwar

(AP) — The Obama administration is warning American businesses about an unusually potent computer virus that infected Iran's oil industry even as suspicions persist that the United States is responsible ...

Technology / Internet

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapse

In the early 1990s, overfishing led to the collapse of one of the most bountiful cod fisheries in the world, off the coast of Newfoundland. Twenty years later, the cod population still has not recovered, dramatically ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Winds of change for pollution sensing

(Phys.org) -- The Great Smog of London is often upheld as a time when pollution reached appalling levels: over a four-day period in December 1952, the capital came to a standstill, cars were abandoned, airports ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Growing up, 'geeking out'

Mizuko "Mimi" Ito spends a lot of time "geeking out" at her computer. She plays video games, trolls the Internet, chats, and visits social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter for hours on end.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hazy days: Berkeley lab tackles pollution in Mongolia

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human hands leave prominent ecological footprints

Early human activity has left a greater footprint on today's ecosystem than previously thought, say researchers working at the University of Pittsburgh and in the multidisciplinary Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights

(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Grazing snails rule the waves: marine study

(Phys.org) -- Coral reefs and seashores largely look the way they do because large fish and urchins eat most of the seaweed that might otherwise cover them, but a major new study has found that the greatest ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Under the influence of magnetic drugs

(Phys.org) -- For more than three decades scientists have been investigating magnetic nanoparticles as a method of drug delivery. Now by combining three metals - iron, gold and platinum - pharmacists at the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Geoengineering: A whiter sky

One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from the Earth's surface. But scientists theorize that this solar geoengineering could have ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 13 | with audio podcast


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