Location: Cambridge, United States
Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it
has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly
impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Tactile devices, which translate sound...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones
and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the
cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death...
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Location: Marion Doucet or Nadine Peyrolo: @ pasteur.fr marion.doucet - 01 45 68 89 28, France
Through a study of human genetics in different populations around the world,
researchers at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS have discovered how pathogens may
vary over time the evolution of our immune system.
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Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Researchers in Heidelberg discover new protein that is suppressed in
particularly aggressive cancer cell.
If cancer cells lack a certain protein, it could be much easier for them to
penetrate healthy body tissue, the first step...
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Location: Harvard, United States
Investigators from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of
Puerto Rico asked "Is there a prospective association between obesity and
periodontal disease?"
They evaluated the association between...
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Location: New York, United States
Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a
bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system.
The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular motor
systems, is...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
A miniature telescope implanted into the eye could soon help people with
vision loss from end-stage macular degeneration. Last week, an advisory panel
for the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended that the agency
approve...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself,
but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using
carbon dating to gauge the age of heart cells, scientists have found that low
numbers...
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Location: San Juan, Spain
For the moment no name, a new neurological syndrome was identified and
characterized by an international team of researchers including Dr. Salvador
Martinez of the Instituto of Neurociencas of San Juan Alicante (CSIC).
Consequence of a...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
A novel matrix of neural stem cells and a biodegradable polymer can quickly repair brain damage from stroke in rats. Within just seven days of injecting the concoction directly into the damaged part of the brain, new nerve tissue grew to fill...
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Location: Ohio, United States
Researchers have developed a new way to perform chemical reactions involving only about 1,000 molecules. The method could prove useful in the rapid screening of chemical reactions when searching for new drugs and industrial materials.
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (or manic-depressive psychosis) psychoses are the two most frequent. Most studies treated them as separate diseases. A team from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, conducted a statistical study of
the...
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Location: Montreal, Canada
We knew that reducing the intake of calories, for example because of the
reduction of the amount sugar ingested, could prolong life. According to a new
study by researchers at the University of Montreal whose results are published
in the...
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
Traditionally, stimulating nerves or brain tissue involves cumbersome wiring
and a sharp metal electrode. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve
University is going "wireless."
And it's a unique collaboration...
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Location: washington, United States
DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H.
psychedelica-A juvenile H. psychedelica hops along a coral
reef, its course even more precarious as it is buffeted by currents. Notice
how it curves its tail around to...
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Location: COLUMBUS, United States
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined that a specific gene plays a role
in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet.
The finding in an animal study suggests that blocking this gene could one day
be a therapeutic...
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Location: Wales, United Kingdom
BETHESDA, Md. (Feb. 24, 2009) − When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested, a new study finds.
The...
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Location: Wales, United Kingdom
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Location: Pennsylvania, American Samoa
A simple, chemical materials model may lead to a better understanding of the structure and organization of the cell according to a Penn State researcher.
"Cells are interesting because they show organization even at the level of the cytoplasm,...
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