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Researchers uncover potential 'cure' for type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes could be converted to an asymptomatic, non-insulin-dependent disorder by eliminating the actions of a specific hormone, new findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Childhood self-control predicts adult health and wealth

A long-term study has found that children who scored lower on measures of self-control as young as age 3 were more likely to have health problems, substance dependence, financial troubles and a criminal record by the time ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Zero tolerance, zero effect: Stats show laws 'inert'

As college administrators, social scientists and law enforcement officials across the country continue to debate whether the drinking age should be 18 instead of 21, a Sam Houston State University economist challenges a related ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Physicists move one step closer to quantum computer

Rice University physicists have created a tiny "electron superhighway" that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, a new type of computer that will use quantum particles in place of the digital ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Slime design mimics Tokyo's rail system

What could human engineers possibly learn from the lowly slime mold? Reliable, cost-efficient network construction, apparently: a recent experiment suggests that Physarum polycephalum, a gelatinous fungus ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists Develop New Hybrid Database System

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the amounts of data being stored by databases around the world enters the realm of the petabyte (the amount of data stored in a mile-high stack of CD-ROM disks), efficient data management is becoming more ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Drug prevents Type 2 diabetes in majority of high-risk individuals

A pill taken once a day in the morning prevented type 2 diabetes in more than 70 percent of individuals whose obesity, ethnicity and other markers put them at highest risk for the disease, U.S. scientists reported today.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists reveal secrets of drought resistance

A team of biologists in California led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego has solved the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive during droughts. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Chance Observation Leads to Plant Breeding Breakthrough

(PhysOrg.com) -- A reliable method for producing plants that carry genetic material from only one of their parents has been discovered by plant biologists at UC Davis. The technique, to be published March 25 in the journal ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Can evolution outpace climate change?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 69 | with audio podcast

Which plants will survive droughts, climate change?

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by UCLA life scientists could lead to predictions of which plant species will escape extinction from climate change.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Moss helps chart the conquest of land by plants (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on one of the most important events in earth-history, the conquest of land by plants 480 million years ago.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows males are more tolerant of same-sex peers

Women have traditionally been viewed as being more social and cooperative than men. However, there is recent evidence that this may not be the case. In fact, studies have shown that men maintain larger social networks with ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

New role for ancient clock: Study shows direct link between circadian clock in pancreas and diabetes

The pancreas has its own molecular clock. Now, for the first time, a Northwestern University study has shown this ancient circadian clock regulates the production of insulin. If the clock is faulty, the result is diabetes.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rare hibiscus color is achieved after four years

Dr. Dariusz Malinowski is seeing blue, and he is very excited.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1