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New Tool Reveals Secrets Of Migrating Cells
Cells migrate in many, if not all, tissues, but their treks have until now been inferred from observations of chemically fixed tissue at different stages of development. A new tool, two-photon imaging, is changing all that. UC Berkeley immunologists Ellen Robey and Colleen Witt report their imaging studies of T cells in an intact, living thymus, which show immature cells wandering randomly until they receive a signal that sends them beelining away. Weill Cornell/Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research Collaboration Ident
Joint research -- conducted by researchers at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Branch in New York -- has pinpointed two proteins that seem ideal targets for a vaccine against multiple myeloma, the second most common, and currently incurable, blood cancer. Sailing The Planets: Exploring Mars With Guided Balloons
Global Aerospace Corporation of Altadena, CA proposes that the Mars exploration vehicle combining the global reach similar to that of orbiters and high resolution observations enabled by rovers could be a balloon that can be steered in the right direction and that would drop small science packages over the target sites. The concept being developed by the Global Aerospace Corporation is funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC). Futuristic Fridge Mimics Tree
The Tree House Fridge looks like a Wile E. Coyote prop -- a multi-chambered whatnot box rather than a big, cold rectangle. Separate branches hold meat, cheese, produce and other stuff -- cool! In Gadget Lab. World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites
British physicists and computer scientists are playing a key role in facing one of the biggest computing problems in the world - how to process the massive data volumes expected from the world's biggest particle physics experiment the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN in Switzerland. When the LHC becomes operational in 2007 it will produce Petabytes (millions of Gigabytes) of data. A New Species of Monkey Is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa
Article about the 2005 discovery in Africa of the "'Highland Mangabey' (Lophocebus kipunji), a long-haired forest primate."Includes photos and audio of the mangabey's "honk-bark."The article also notes that in December 2004 "WCS researchers found a new species of macaque in India, followed by a new variety of titi monkey in Bolivia."From the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Smoking Women Married To Smoking Men Have Higher Stroke Risk
In a study of women smokers, those whose spouses also smoked had a higher risk of stroke than those married to nonsmokers. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Geosciences: Melt rises to Earth's surface up to 25 times faster than
Scientists have successfully determined the permeability of the asthenosphere in the Earth's upper mantle and thus the rate at which melt rises to the Earth's surface: it flows up to 25 times faster than previously assumed. Thermo-mechanical and geochemical models on melt flows in volcanoes now have to be reconsidered. Be Still My Beating Heart: Ilk Gene Underlies Heart Failure
Two independent papers in the September 1 issue of Genes and Development reveal a critical role for the ILK protein in regulating cardiac contractility -- identifying a new genetic component of heart disease.
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