 New 'barcode chip' allows cheap, fast blood tests November 25, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new "barcode chip" developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) promises to revolutionize diagnostic medical testing. In less than 10 minutes, and using just a pinprick's ... | |
Where does the gene activity of youth go? New findings may hold the key November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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New evidence may explain why it is that we lose not only our youthful looks, but also our youthful pattern of gene activity with age. A report in the November 26th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, ... | |
Keep big fish in their small ponds -- or in the ocean, says research November 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Toronto analysed Canadian fisheries data to determine the effect of the "keep the large ones" policy that is typical of fisheries. What they found is that the effect of this ... | |
 Can you hear me now? How the inner ear's sensors are made 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia — tiny cellular hairs in the ear that move and transmit signals ... | |
Scientists discover a new way in which epigenetic information is inherited November 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Hereditary information flows from parents to offspring not just through DNA but also through the millions of proteins and other molecules that cling to it. These modifications of DNA, known as "epigenetic marks," act both ... | |
Stephen Hawking named to Canada's Perimeter Institute November 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking has been appointed to the position of distinguished research chair at Canada's leading scientific brain trust, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics announced Thursday. | |
Salmon-tracking network challenges conventional wisdom November 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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They were two of the 1,000 juvenile salmon implanted with almond-sized transmitters as they headed out of the Rocky Mountains, down the Snake River bound for the sea. | |
Researchers create polymer solar cells with higher efficiency levels November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Currently, solar cells are difficult to handle, expensive to purchase and complicated to install. The hope is that consumers will one day be able to buy solar cells from their local hardware store and simply hang them like ... | |
 Wash. biologist hazes swans away from deadly lead November 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Years of collecting dead carcasses and examining lead-poisoned livers have convinced Mike Smith of this: to save Pacific Coast trumpeter swans, he has to haze them. | |
Researchers discover how mosquitoes avoid succumbing to viruses they transmit 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Mosquitoes are like Typhoid Mary. They can spread viruses which cause West Nile fever, dengue fever, or yellow fever without themselves getting sick. Scientists long thought that the mosquito didn't care whether it had a ... | |
 Superglue from the sea: Synthetic sea worm glue may mend shattered knee, face bones November 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version ... | |
 Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops November 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential - rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich ... | |
Oetzi's last supper 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from ... | |
Study of oldest turtle fossil November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be. | |
 A Best Friend of Humanity: The African Giant Pouched Rat November 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The African Giant Pouched Rats, Cricetomys gambianus have been trained to methodically sniff out land mines in war-torn regions of Africa. Apopo International based in Antwerp, Belgium is ... | |
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