Pioneering landscape-scale research releases first findings 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The May issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research presents the preliminary findings of 23 scientists involved in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa ... | |
 How small molecule can take apart Alzheimer's disease protein fibers 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a small molecule is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to ... | |
Study shows that administering calcium and magnesium effectively reduces neurological sensitivity 12 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Researchers in the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) have shown that patients who receive intravenous calcium and magnesium before and after the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin for the treatment of advanced colon ... | |
Researchers identify proteins that help develop mammalian hearts 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The absence of two proteins in mammalian embryos prevents the development of a healthy heart, a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has found. | |
Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A world-renowned team of experts in biomechanics and physiology from six universities, led by Professor Hugh Herr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, refute scientific claims that the prostheses worn ... | |
Protein predicts Gleevec resistance in gastrointestinal tumors 12 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Excess amounts of a protein called IGF-1R in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) could indicate that the patient would be less responsive to the drug imatinib mesylate (known as Gleevec), according to Andrew ... | |
Lung cancer patients can tolerate post-surgery exercise, and can benefit from it 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Patients who have undergone surgical procedures for the removal of lung cancer can tolerate and benefit from exercise regimens started just a month after surgery, according to a new study led by researchers at the Duke Comprehensive ... | |
General practitioners filling the gap left by inadequate dental services, says doctor 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A shortage of NHS dentists means that general practitioners (GPs) have been left to do dentists’ work without adequate remuneration, argues a doctor in a letter in this week’s BMJ. | |
Common virus may serve as target for vaccine in fight against deadly brain tumors 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
By targeting a common virus, doctors may be able to extend the lives of patients diagnosed with the most prevalent and deadly type of brain tumor, according to a study led by researchers in Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain ... | |
 Strange star stumps astronomers 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
HIV infection stems from few viruses 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail. | |
 A baseball cap that reads your mind 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ... | |
Sulfur in marine archaeological shipwrecks -- the 'hull story' gives a sour aftertaste 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Advanced chemical analyses reveal that, with the help of smart scavenging bacteria, sulfur and iron compounds accumulated in the timbers of the Swedish warship Vasa during her 333 years on the seabed of the Stockholm harbour. ... | |
Biosensor for measuring stress in cells 12 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Cancer, nervous system disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular disorders and old age have one thing in common: Both in afflicted tissue and in aging cells, scientists have observed oxidative changes in important ... | |
Scientists unveil new tool to understand evolution of multi-domain genes 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Carnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins ... | |
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