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Child safety seat education needs an extra boost

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death among children despite the widespread availability of effective child passenger restraint systems (CPRSs) such as child safety seats. However, even when provided with free ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Panel backs sharing studies of lab-made bird flu

(AP) -- The U.S. government's biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, don't reveal details ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

A camera that peers around corners (w/ video)

In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup that enabled that video was des ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Neurons from stem cells could replace mice in botulinum test

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using lab-grown human neurons, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an effective assay for detecting botulinum neurotoxin, the agent widely used to cosmetically smooth the wrinkles ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Controversial 'bird flu' edits move ahead

Top US scientists on Wednesday defended their bid to stop details of a mutant bird flu virus from being published and called for global cooperation to ward off an uncontrollable pandemic.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists fight back in 'mutant flu' research row

Leading virologists on Wednesday warned of censorship after a US bioterror watchdog asked scientific journals to withhold details of lab work that created a mutant strain of killer flu.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Details of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed (Update)

The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 20

Survey reveals scientists have trouble accessing human embryonic stem cell lines

The promise of stem cell research for drug discovery and cell-based therapies depends on the ability of scientists to acquire stem cell lines for their research.

Biology / Biotechnology

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Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enzymes act like a switch, turning antibiotic resistance on and off in enterococci

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in which enterococci turn their ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

UNH researcher discovers research manipulated to support pro-eugenic beliefs

A University of New Hampshire researcher has discovered that a former Yale professor who espoused pro-eugenic beliefs manipulated his research findings so he could conclude that his Wisconsin home town was ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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