Timing is everything in new nanotechnology for medicine, security and research
2013-12-16
Timing is everything in new nanotechnology for medicine, security and research
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers working to advance imaging useful to medicine and security are capitalizing on the same phenomenon behind the lingering "ghost" image that appeared ...
Nuclei in wrong place may be cause, not result, of inherited muscle diseases
2013-12-16
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Nuclei in wrong place may be cause, not result, of inherited muscle diseases
Sunday Driver gene implicated as necessary regulator of nuclear positioning in muscle tissue cells
Incorrectly positioned nuclei ...
Mothers see their youngest as shorter than they are
2013-12-16
Mothers see their youngest as shorter than they are
Many parents say when their second child is born that their first child suddenly appears to have grown overnight. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on December 16 have an explanation: until ...
JCI early table of contents for Dec. 16, 2013
2013-12-16
JCI early table of contents for Dec. 16, 2013
A mouse model to evaluate potential age-promoting compounds
While there are well-established mouse models to identify cancer-causing agents, similar models are not available to readily test and identify age-promoting ...
A mouse model to evaluate potential age-promoting compounds
2013-12-16
A mouse model to evaluate potential age-promoting compounds
While there are well-established mouse models to identify cancer-causing agents, similar models are not available to readily test and identify age-promoting agents. Recently, a mouse strain ...
Hybrid protein deregulates complement in dense deposit disease
2013-12-16
Hybrid protein deregulates complement in dense deposit disease
Dense deposit disease is a rare congenital disorder that is associated with complement dysfunction and often results in end stage renal disease within 10 years of the initial diagnosis. A ...
Fruit fly studies help scientists swat aggressive relapsing leukemia
2013-12-16
Fruit fly studies help scientists swat aggressive relapsing leukemia
CINCINNATI – Using genetic information initially uncovered in fruit fly studies, scientists have developed a unique therapeutic strategy that stops an aggressive and ...
Aging cells unravel their DNA
2013-12-16
Aging cells unravel their DNA
Senescent cells, which are metabolically active but no longer capable of dividing, contribute to aging, and senescence is a key mechanism for preventing the spread of cancer cells. A study in The Journal of Cell Biology ...
Tweaking energy consumption to combat muscle wasting and obesity
2013-12-16
Tweaking energy consumption to combat muscle wasting and obesity
Using a new technique to evaluate working muscles in mice, researchers have uncovered physiological mechanisms that could lead to new strategies for combating metabolism-related disorders ...
Guidelines 2.0: New guideline development checklist for health researchers
2013-12-16
Guidelines 2.0: New guideline development checklist for health researchers
Researchers hope that a comprehensive new checklist will help guideline developers/organizations around the world create and implement better recommendations for health ...
Personalized vaccine for most lethal type of brain tumor shows promise
2013-12-16
Personalized vaccine for most lethal type of brain tumor shows promise
CHICAGO – Patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared ...
Gene variant exacerbates inflammatory arthritis in mice
2013-12-16
Gene variant exacerbates inflammatory arthritis in mice
Study reveals new mechanism for arthritis progression
(SALT LAKE CITY)—University of Utah researchers have discovered a naturally occurring genetic variation in mice that predisposes carriers toward ...
Do degrading TV portrayals of women cause gender harassment?
2013-12-16
Do degrading TV portrayals of women cause gender harassment?
A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly considers whether objectifying women in television and harassment are causally linked. Researchers Silvia Galdi, Anne Maass, and Mara Cadinu designed two ...
5 effective parenting programs to reduce problem behaviors in children
2013-12-16
5 effective parenting programs to reduce problem behaviors in children
All parents want what's best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior ...
Linking social science and ecology to solve the world's environmental problems
2013-12-16
Linking social science and ecology to solve the world's environmental problems
Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) at James Cook University are engaging social science ...
NTU scientists discover potential vaccine for malaria
2013-12-16
NTU scientists discover potential vaccine for malaria
Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and more importantly, found a way to block ...
Alzheimer substance may be the nanomaterial of tomorrow
2013-12-16
Alzheimer substance may be the nanomaterial of tomorrow
Amyloid protein causes diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But amyloid also carries unique characteristics that may lead to the development of new composite ...
Nanoparticles and their orbital positions
2013-12-16
Nanoparticles and their orbital positions
Physicists have developed a "planet-satellite model" to precisely connect and arrange nanoparticles in three-dimensional structures. Inspired by the photosystems of plants and algae, these artificial nanoassemblies ...
VTT: Biorefinery business could put the South Australian forest industry back on the growth track
2013-12-16
VTT: Biorefinery business could put the South Australian forest industry back on the growth track
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, at the request of the South Australian State Government, studied the condition of the forest sector ...
Brain waves encode information as time signals
2013-12-16
Brain waves encode information as time signals
How information is processed and encoded in the brain is a central question in neuroscience, as it is essential for high cognitive function such as learning and memory. Theta-gamma ...
Nanofriction on the tip of the microscope
2013-12-16
Nanofriction on the tip of the microscope
A new research paper from SISSA published in Nature Materials
Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms. This is made possible by the ...
Families urged to get to the heart of their medical histories this Christmas
2013-12-16
Families urged to get to the heart of their medical histories this Christmas
Doctors are encouraging people to take advantage of Christmas gatherings with relatives to discuss family medical histories to help tackle ill-health.
The call from clinical ...
Golden trap: Highly sensitive system to detect individual molecules
2013-12-16
Golden trap: Highly sensitive system to detect individual molecules
Medical diagnostics is searching for substances capable of documenting early on whether a serious disease is developing or what its course will be. In many cases, the treacherous ...
Ultrafast heating of water -- This pot boils faster than you can watch it
2013-12-16
Ultrafast heating of water -- This pot boils faster than you can watch it
Novel method opens new paths for experiments with heated samples of biological relevance
Scientists from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have devised a novel ...
New classification system to improve scheduling of emergency surgery highlighted in BJS issue
2013-12-16
New classification system to improve scheduling of emergency surgery highlighted in BJS issue
Researchers in Finland have implemented a classification system for emergency operations that allows for a fair and efficient way to manage a large volume of such surgery. The system ...
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