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Magic box for mission impossible
| 11/25/2009 | On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, tackled fires and evacuated as many people as they could in an area which contained an estimated 17,000 people. And making their jobs even harder was the problem of poor comm... [Comments] |
Johnson & Johnson award goes to research of the cause of brain cell damage in Parkinson's
| 11/25/2009 | Dr. Sarit Larisch, Head of the Cell Death Research Laboratory in the University of Haifa's Department of Biology, has been awarded the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Focused Funding grant for her research exploring the cause of brain cell damage in Parkinson's disease. The award, which is grant... [Comments] |  |
| 11/25/2009 | MADISON, WI, NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Soil is the linchpin of the environment, where atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere meet. Despite that, many students see soil as "just dirt" a place to grow plants, but nothing more. Soil science educators are challenged with the task of helping students and the public recognize the critical importance of soil in the environment. A collaborative project... [Comments] |
New genetic cause of cardiac failure discovered
| 11/25/2009 | Over the course of a lifetime, the heart pumps some 250 million liters of blood through the body. In the order to do this, the muscle fibers of the heart have to be extremely durable. The research group headed by Dr. Wolfgang Rottbauer, vice chair of the Department of Medicine III at Heidelberg... [Comments] |  |
Kent State University professors focus research on the environment with grants totaling $890,000
| 11/25/2009 | Two Kent State University assistant professors recently received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue research beneficial to understanding the environment. The three grants total $890,000. Christopher Blackwood, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded grants to support two separate research projects. His first project, titled... [Comments] |
| 11/25/2009 | LA JOLLA, CAWhen you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liverthe body's metabolic clearinghouseis mostly contro... [Comments] |  |
Got a pain? -- Have a cup of Brazilian mint
| 11/24/2009 | For thousands of years it has been prescribed by traditional healers in Brazil to treat a range of ailments from headaches and stomach pain to fever and flu. Now for the first time, researchers at Newcastle University have been able to scientifically prove the pain relieving properties of Hyptis crenata otherwise known as Brazilian mint. Testing this ancient South American herb on mic... [Comments] |
Lupus Research Institute announces 2009 novel research grants
| 11/24/2009 | The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) today named 12 new grant recipients for 2009. The awards, totaling $3.6 million, recognize innovative work across a broad spectrum of lupus research. All were selected for their creativity, novelty, and potential to drive scientific discovery to ultimately prevent, treat, and cure the complex disease of systemic lupus. The 2009 grants go to both new and e... [Comments] |
Rocket science leads to new whale discovery
| 11/24/2009 | Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal or if they hear it at all. The same type of large industrial sized X-ray scanners that NASA uses to detect flaws in the space shuttle's behemoth solid fuel... [Comments] |  |
A sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics
| 11/24/2009 | Scientists have crystallised a protein that may help gut bacteria bind to the gastrointestinal tract. The protein could be used by probiotic producers to identify strains that are likely to be of real benefit to people. "Probiotics need to interact with cells lining the gut to have a beneficial effect, and if they attach to surfaces in the gut they are more likely to stick around long enoug... [Comments] |
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