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Gallery: The Future's at NextFest
Wired's geek festival comes up big this year with lifelike robots, homes of the future and immersive games. Peep a preview of this weekend's activities. Positive Emotions Slash Bias, Help People See Big Picture Details
Positive emotions like joy and humor help people "get the big picture,"virtually eliminating the own-race bias that makes many people think members of other races "all look alike,"according to new University of Michigan research. Scientists Use Transcription Factors To Increase Insulin Production In
A group of Japanese scientists has used gene therapy to deliver three insulin transcription factors, MafA, PDX-1, and NeuroD, to the livers of diabetic mice. As a result, the mice experienced an increase in insulin gene expression and insulin production, raising the possibility that this could eventually be used to treat diabetes. Weed Gave Up Sex Long Ago
The ability of plants to self-pollinate -- a big factor in the spread of weeds -- is much older than previously thought in one widely studied species, biologists from five leading institutions say. The findings show that at least in plant evolution, sex with others may be more trouble than it's worth. Life Inside the Biosphere Bubble
Jane Poynter spent two years in the world's most famous artificial environment. Her new book, The Human Experiment, throws open the Biosphere 2 airlock to the world -- the good science, the hard work and the raging conflict among crew members. A Wired News interview by Erica Gies. Study Will Identify Lung Cancer Patients For Upfront Iressa Treatment
Earlier this year researchers at two Boston hospitals announced their discovery of a genetic marker that could predict which lung cancers would respond to treatment with the targeted-therapy drug Iressa (gefitinib). Now members of the same teams have launched a study using this marker to identify at the outset patients most likely to respond to the drug. UF Study: Bigfoot Myth Persists Because It Depicts Humans' Wild Side
There's plenty to debunk about the Bigfoot myth, but people may not listen because they have a love-hate relationship with the gigantic hairy monster, says a University of Florida researcher. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Mauritania
A report about human rights practices in this Islamic republic located in Africa. Some of the topics discussed in this report based on research done in 2005 include religious freedom, participation in elections, government corruption, gavage (force-feeding of adolescent girls, "practiced only among White Moor tribal groups"), and the rights of women. From the U.S. Department of State. Formula Against Infertility
Stem cell research has the potential to one day treat female infertility or repair damaged nerves and thus help paraplegias. This was agreed by more than one hundred researchers discussing the latest trends in stem cell research at a workshop in Kobe, as part of the Germany Year in Japan. The workshop was jointly organized by the Ernst Schering Research Foundation (Berlin), the Max Planck Society (Munich) and the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe). How Cell Suicide Protects Plants From Infection
Researchers at Yale have identified a gene that regulates the major immune response in plants, programmed cell death (PCD), according to a recent report in the journal Cell.
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