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Team finds genetic link between
immune and nerve systems
PhysOrg.com Sep. 19, 2008
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Duke University Medical Center
researchers have discovered genetic
links between the nervous system and
the immune system in a well-studied
worm, and the findings could
illuminate new approaches to human
therapies. They found that NPR-1, a
worm cell receptor linked to
proteins that are similar to
mammalian neuropeptide Y, functions
to suppress...
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Researcher micro-sizes genetics
testing
PhysOrg.com Sep. 19, 2008
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Using new "lab on a chip"
technology, University of Virginia
researchers hope to create a
hand-held device that may eventually
allow physicians, crime scene
investigators, pharmacists, even the
general public to quickly and
inexpensively conduct DNA tests from
almost anywhere, without need for a
complex and expensive central
laboratory. Such a...
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Digital evolution: early fish had
primitive fingers, says study
PhysOrg.com Sep. 22, 2008
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Uppsala University scientists have
traced the origin of fingers and
toes to fish-like creatures that
roamed the seas 380 million years
ago -- not, as previously assumed,
from air-breathing animals that
crawled from sea to land some 10 to
20 million years later. They found
four rudimentary fingers already
present inside the fins of the...
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New Route to Hydrocarbon Biofuels
Technology Review Sep. 22, 2008
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
have developed a simple, two-step
chemical process to convert plant
sugars into hydrocarbon fuels, other
industrial chemicals, and...
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Building a Self-Assembling
Stomach-Bot
Technology Review Sep. 22, 2008
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By using magnetic links between
capsules, a team of European
researchers hopes to build a
snake-like robot that can
self-assemble inside a patient's
stomach to perform different tasks:
imaging, power, taking samples,
etc., and link together, creating a
snake-like device that could slide
through the intestines, performing
more-complex tasks than...
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How telcos and ISPs are prepping
for a pandemic
Network World Sep. 18, 2008
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Telecom carriers and ISPs have
discussed what steps they've been
taking to prepare for the mass
outbreak of a disease such as
influenza. They are dealing with
significant numbers of people living
in shelters or staying at home to
work, and determining where public
safety needs the most help -- for
example, where key 911 facilities
and key...
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More Ingredients For Life Found In
Outer Space
ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION Sep. 20, 2008
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A team of researchers led by
Spanish scientists has published
their discovery of the complex
molecule naphthalene in an
interstellar star-forming cloud,
indicating that many prebiotic
organic molecules necessary for life
as we know it could have been
present when our own solar system...
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Powerful X-ray captures molecular
shape-shifting
NewScientist.com news service Sep. 21, 2008
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University of Copenhagen
researchers have developed a method
to freeze-frame proteins in their
natural, fast-moving state, using
100 picosecond X-ray pulses to
overcome the limits of static X-ray
crystallography. The team has
already found evidence of a
previously unknown hemoglobin
structure, which it adopts for only
a short time as the...
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New industry alliance launched to
promote use of IP in networks of
smart objects
eChannel Line Sep. 18, 2008
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A group of leading technology
vendors has formed the IP for Smart
Objects (IPSO) Alliance, whose goal
is to promote the use of the
Internet Protocol (IP) to connect
"smart objects" in the physical
world that transmit information
about their condition or
environment, ranging from automated
and energy-efficient homes and
office buildings, factory...
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A Maybe Planet, Orbiting Its Maybe
Sun
New York Times Sep. 18, 2008
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Astronomers from the University of
Toronto have published a picture of
what they say might be the first
image of a planet orbiting another
Sunlike star, about 30 billion miles
away from the star, inexplicably.
(Gemini...
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Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It
Frees Our Minds.
New York Times Sep. 20, 2008
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Over the course of human history,
writing, printing, computing and
Googling have only made it easier to
think and communicate, says Times
writer Damon Darlin, challenging an
article in The Atlantic magazine
called "Is Google Making Us...
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