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Smart drug delivery system -- Gold nanocage covered with polymer
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Why do animals, especially males, have so many different colors?
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Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit
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Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy
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Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling
quasicrystals
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Help your kidneys: Pass on salt and diet soda
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AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/
Video)
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Colombia volcano rumbles back to life
Father of China's space tech program dies at 98
(AP) -- Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's
space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua
News Agency said. He was 98.
Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced'
Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding
clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a
lingering drought, state media reported.
Typhoon Mirinae already raining on the Philippines
Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon
Mirinae's cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the
central and northern Philippines on October 30 at 4:53 p.m.
(Asia/Manila) local time. Mirinae is also known as "Santi" in the
Philippines.
Tanker spills oil in San Francisco Bay
A ruptured fuel line on a Panamanian-registered tanker released oil into
San Francisco Bay before dawn on Friday, authorities said.
Bridge opens China's 'last virgin island' for development
China on Saturday opens a new bridge over the Yangtze that will pave the
way for rapid development of the country's "last virgin island,"
Chongming -- now just an hour's drive from booming Shanghai.
Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions
Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but
scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep
into the bowels of Mother Earth.
Geologists monitor landslide in Washington state for further movement
It's hard to picture a bigger landslide than the one that buried a
quarter-mile of Highway 410 in Yakima County, Wash., in mid-October.
Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone
more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like
those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.
Colombia volcano rumbles back to life
Officials in southern Colombia have issued a code orange alert for the
newly-active Galeras volcano which they said could erupt in a matter of
days or weeks, according to the state-run Geological and Mining
Institute.
Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Going smaller could bring better results, especially
when it comes to cancer-fighting drugs.
Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling
quasicrystals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all
ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions
or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life are
arranged in crystals of repeating, three -- dimensional patterns.
Smart drug delivery system -- Gold nanocage covered with polymer (w/
Video)
In campy old movies, Lucretia Borgia swans around emptying powder from
her ring into wine glasses carelessly left unattended. The poison ring
is usually a confection of gold filigree holding a cabochon or faceted
gemstone that can be broken to empty the ring's contents. It is
invariably enormous — so large it is rather odd nobody seems to notice
it.
University research worth $187 billion over 12 years, group says
In what it calls a first-of-its-kind study, the nation's leading
biotechnology trade group this week put a dollar figure on the value of
university-driven research, asserting that economic output grew $187
billion from 1996-2007 through university technology license agreements
alone.
Growth in secular attitudes leaves Americans room for belief in God
(PhysOrg.com) -- The nature of the American religious experience is
changing as a rising number of people report having no formal religious
affiliation, even though the number of Americans who say they pray is
increasing, according to a new survey from the University of Chicago.
PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens
(AP) -- Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the
recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might
also find laptops are missing a familiar component. You could experiment
with new ways of controlling some computers. And you'll see portable PCs
slimming down.
School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix
(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they
were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during
their summer vacation.
AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the
Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot
that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a
collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab,
MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America’s
Electronics Research Lab.
Study finds stroke risk from anemia drug Aranesp
(AP) -- A new study raises fresh safety concerns about widely used
anemia medicines, finding that the drug Aranesp nearly doubled the risk
of stroke in people with diabetes and chronic kidney problems who are
not yet sick enough to need dialysis.
Hepatitis B does not increase risk for pancreatic cancer
A Henry Ford Hospital study found that hepatitis B does not increase the
risk for pancreatic cancer - and that only age is a contributing factor.
Study spotlights efficacy of questionnaire to identify patients at high
risk for lung cancer
A study featured in the November issue of the Journal of Thoracic
Oncology confirms the success of a simple questionnaire designed to
identify patients at high risk of lung cancer. Initiated in 2001, the
current study confirmed 18 cases of cancer of the original 430 patients
who qualified as high risk after completing a five-minute questionnaire.
Women with chronic kidney disease more likely than men to go undiagnosed
Woman are at particular risk of their primary care physicians delaying
diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a paper being
presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting
and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, California. The findings suggest
that educating practitioners about CKD could increase the timely
diagnosis of CKD, thereby leading to improvements in care to patients
and savings in Medicare dollars.
Extending treatment after liver transplant may benefit patients with
hepatitis C recurrence
Extending hepatitis C treatment for liver transplant patients beyond
current practice results in high rates of clearance of the hepatitis C
virus from the blood, as well as a low rate of relapse, according to a
Henry Ford Hospital study.
Govt says swine flu vaccine catching up to demand
(AP) -- A senior adviser to President Barack Obama says the government
will catch up to the demand for swine flu vaccine within a week.
Med, nursing schools teaching alternative remedies
(AP) -- Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and
herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical
schools. It's another example of how alternative medicine has become
mainstream. And it's often done with Uncle Sam's help.
Pandemic flu vaccine campaigns may be undermined by coincidental medical
events
The effectiveness of pandemic flu vaccination campaigns - like that now
underway for H1N1 - could be undermined by the public incorrectly
associating coincidental and unrelated health events with the vaccines.
Side effects not always due to swine flu shot
(AP) -- Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the
paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and
that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was
to blame, a new study says.
Australian woman dies after 60 years in iron lung
An Australian woman who spent a record-breaking 60 years confined to an
iron lung after contracting polio died Saturday in a Melbourne nursing
home, aged 83.
MRSA strain linked to high death rates
A strain of MRSA that causes bloodstream infections is five times more
lethal than other strains and has shown to have some resistance to the
potent antibiotic drug vancomycin used to treat MRSA, according to a
Henry Ford Hospital study.
Ukraine calls for help fighting swine flue
Ukraine made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling swine
flu on Sunday, after 60 people died from respiratory problems in a week.
Help your kidneys: Pass on salt and diet soda
Individuals who consume a diet high in sodium or artificially sweetened
drinks are more likely to experience a decline in kidney function,
according to two papers being presented at the American Society of
Nephrology's annual meeting in San Diego, California.
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