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November 28th, 2008 - 2:46 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 28 (ANI): American researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a master gene that plays a key role in regulating blood sugar levels through experiments on mice.
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November 20th, 2008 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Researchers have made electronics that can bend, stretch and now twist as well, considered the ultimate in the subject.Yonggang Huang, professor of civil engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick ...
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November 14th, 2008 - 5:59 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 14 (ANI): IBM and Purdue University researchers say that future computers and consumer electronics may be based on tiny structures called silicon nanowires, as they form the same way ...
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November 7th, 2008 - 6:13 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 7 (ANI): Ingredients in plastic test tubes can block some biological reactions while testing the efficacy of drugs, and thereby lead researchers to bogus conclusions, according to a new ...
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November 7th, 2008 - 5:32 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Australia is leading the worlds first global initiative to improve the diagnosis of genetic disorders and reduce errors in the reporting of genetic variations.
"There is a staggering ...
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November 7th, 2008 - 4:53 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 7 (ANI): A review of recent studies on social animals like birds and bees suggests that social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain to influence behaviour.
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November 1st, 2008 - 12:21 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 1 (ANI): A new research has determined that climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favoring animals with short lifespans over often bigger rivals that are worse ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
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London, October 10 (ANI): A team of researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, has successfully used a novel microscope to map the behaviour and movements of ...
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October 3rd, 2008 - 11:22 am ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 3 (ANI): Just like humans, Beetles too benefit from ''friendly'' associations, say researchers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison expert Cameron Currie says that adult beetles have a specialized compartment in their bodies ...
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September 19th, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 19 (ANI): A new analysis of dust from the halo of the comet Wild 2, has challenged common views about the history and evolution of the solar system and ...
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September 19th, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 19 (ANI): Experiments on mice conducted at UT Southwestern Medical Center suggest that immature fat cells may play a crucial role in treating obesity.
The researchers have discovered that such ...
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September 15th, 2008 - 3:47 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Sep 15 (IANS) A property of quantum mechanics could pave the way for creating incomparably better detectors and imaging systems than their existing counterparts, according to an MIT researcher.MIT mechanical engineering ...
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September 15th, 2008 - 12:02 pm ICT by ANI
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London, September 15 (ANI): Genetic studies conducted on patients with glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer, in America suggest that this disease should be treated as two disease not ...
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September 12th, 2008 - 6:22 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 12 (ANI): Archaeologists in Israel say that the figs they discovered while excavating at the sit of an 11,400-year-old house near the ancient city of Jericho may be the ...
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September 8th, 2008 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
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Jerusalem, Sep 8 (Xinhua) Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that heavy air pollution reduces rainfall, the Jerusalem Post reported Monday.The research team, led by Daniel Rosenfeld of the ...
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August 15th, 2008 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 15 (ANI): Combining the lithography techniques traditionally used to produce patterns for small electronic devices and novel self-assembling materials called block copolymers may help reduce the time and cost ...
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August 15th, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 15 (ANI): Northwestern University scientists in the U.S. claim to have discovered a major genetic trait which is present in 10 to 20 per cent of colorectal cancer patients, ...
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August 11th, 2008 - 10:05 am ICT by IANS
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Toronto, Aug 11 (IANS) With global warming hastening the shrinkage of the Arctic Ocean ice cover, scientists have warned that the North Pole may face ice-free summers as early as 2013. Further, ...
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August 9th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 9 (ANI): American scientists have gained significant insights into the role that different levels of a brain chemical called dopamine play in Parkinson''s disease and drug addiction.
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August 8th, 2008 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 8 (ANI): A new study funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests that human visual memory is not as sharp as previously believed, but it can be used more flexibly ...
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August 8th, 2008 - 4:31 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 8 (ANI): Penn State researchers believe that refrigerators and other cooling devices sans compressors and coils of piping may soon be a reality.
The researchers say that insights gained ...
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August 1st, 2008 - 3:36 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 1 (ANI): Monash University scientists have achieved a breakthrough that may help make hybrid vehicles more reliable and cheaper to build.
In a research article in the journal Science, the ...
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July 23rd, 2008 - 11:21 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, July 23 (IANS) Human speech skills and possibly all sound production in vertebrates could be traced back to similar abilities in fish, according to a study by US researchers. Researchers from ...
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July 21st, 2008 - 12:31 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, July 21 (ANI): Scientists have determined that the emerging new understanding of the Indus Civilization suggests that it might have been a powerhouse of commerce and technology in the 3rd ...
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July 19th, 2008 - 1:59 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 19 (ANI): Rusi Taleyarkhan, a nuclear engineer of Indian origin, who claimed in 2002 to have achieved nuclear fusion by popping bubbles in a solvent, has been accused of ...
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July 18th, 2008 - 1:09 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, July 18 (IANS) In a pointer to the gravity of the situation, scientists have called for a last-resort conservation measure like the relocation to safer habitats of species endangered by climate ...
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July 18th, 2008 - 11:30 am ICT by IANS
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London, July 18 (IANS) Researchers in Britain have discovered that measuring specific activities of the brain could help the early and more precise detection of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Current diagnosis of the disorder, ...
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July 11th, 2008 - 12:19 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 11 (ANI): Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have achieved a major breakthrough in developing an affordable method to turn ordinary glass into a high-tech solar concentrator.
The ...
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June 22nd, 2008 - 4:08 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 22 (ANI): Individuals often sacrifice their personal self interest for the common good and expecting them to behave selfishly by giving incentives can lead to bad policy, a new ...
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June 20th, 2008 - 4:14 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 20 (ANI): Scientists at Indiana University in Bloomington have found that a bacterium uses a molecular clutch called epsE to disengage its propulsion system, when it wants to settle ...
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