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Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming
23 Mar 2008
Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits Scripps Climate and Atmospheric Science Professor V. Ramanathan Click here for more...
23 Mar 2008
Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits Scripps Climate and Atmospheric Science Professor V. Ramanathan Click here for more...
UC Davis researchers discover how HIV turns food-poisoning into lethal infection
23 Mar 2008
Animal study reveals mechanism behind rise in salmonella bacteremia in AIDS patients (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Nearly half of all HIV-positive African adults who become infected with Salmonella die from what otherwise would be a seven-day...
23 Mar 2008
Animal study reveals mechanism behind rise in salmonella bacteremia in AIDS patients (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Nearly half of all HIV-positive African adults who become infected with Salmonella die from what otherwise would be a seven-day...
Study finds pitching mound height affects throwing motion, injury risk
23 Mar 2008
Medical College study on pitching mound height provides insight into baseball injuries A study involving several Major League Baseball pitchers indicates that the height of the pitcher’s mound can affect the athlete’s throwing arm...
23 Mar 2008
Medical College study on pitching mound height provides insight into baseball injuries A study involving several Major League Baseball pitchers indicates that the height of the pitcher’s mound can affect the athlete’s throwing arm...
UM physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon
23 Mar 2008
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature....
23 Mar 2008
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature....
Promising new drug targets identified for Huntington's disease
23 Mar 2008
Research funded by the Wellcome Trust has provided a number of promising new drug targets for Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disease. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a number of candidate drugs to...
23 Mar 2008
Research funded by the Wellcome Trust has provided a number of promising new drug targets for Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disease. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a number of candidate drugs to...
Protein protects embryonic stem cells' versatility and self-renewal
23 Mar 2008
M. D. Anderson team connects REST to regenerative medicine, pediatric brain cancer HOUSTON — A protein known as REST blocks the expression of a microRNA that prevents embryonic stem cells from reproducing themselves and causes them to...
23 Mar 2008
M. D. Anderson team connects REST to regenerative medicine, pediatric brain cancer HOUSTON — A protein known as REST blocks the expression of a microRNA that prevents embryonic stem cells from reproducing themselves and causes them to...
Coral's addiction to 'junk food'
23 Mar 2008
Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it. This curious arrangement is one of Nature’s most...
23 Mar 2008
Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it. This curious arrangement is one of Nature’s most...
A switch that controls whether cells pass point of no return
23 Mar 2008
DURHAM, N.C. – Investigators at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy have revealed the hidden properties of an on-off switch that governs cell growth. The Duke team proved that if the switch is on, then a cell will divide,...
23 Mar 2008
DURHAM, N.C. – Investigators at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy have revealed the hidden properties of an on-off switch that governs cell growth. The Duke team proved that if the switch is on, then a cell will divide,...
Yerkes researchers identify language feature unique to human brain
23 Mar 2008
The center's extensive imaging capabilities were critical to this evolutionary language finding Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is...
23 Mar 2008
The center's extensive imaging capabilities were critical to this evolutionary language finding Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is...
K-State contributions to red flour beetle genome sequencing featured in March 27 issue of Nature
23 Mar 2008
MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Most of us hate to find the red flour beetle living happily in the flour sack in our pantries. But for several scientists at Kansas State University, and many others throughout the world, this pest of stored grain and grain...
23 Mar 2008
MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Most of us hate to find the red flour beetle living happily in the flour sack in our pantries. But for several scientists at Kansas State University, and many others throughout the world, this pest of stored grain and grain...
Therapeutic cloning treats Parkinson's disease in mice
23 Mar 2008
NEW YORK, March 23, 2008—Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to treat Parkinson’s...
23 Mar 2008
NEW YORK, March 23, 2008—Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to treat Parkinson’s...
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