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Multi-Species Genome Comparison Sheds New Light On Evolutionary Proces
An international team that includes researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has discovered that mammalian chromosomes have evolved by breaking at specific sites rather than randomly as long thought - and that many of the breakage hotspots are also involved in human cancer. The Age of Cheap, Plastic Robots
You hear a lot about cutting-edge, high-end bots, but what about a robot you can buy for $30 or less? Time to take a gander at today's budget bots and their many splendors. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. TV Cocks Its Young Guns to Deliver New Media Programming
More and more TV stations are upping their tech ante, hiring thirtysomething wunderkinds to adapt stations' programming to meet the influx of cellphones, PCs and iPods. Wired News Wants Your Photos
Now's your chance to show the world your model USS Enterprise that Shatner signed on your 13th birthday. A call for submissions to our first ever reader-created photo gallery to run next week on the 40th anniversary of Star Trek. UCSF Surgeon Develops New Spinal Surgery Technique
Surgeons at the University of California - San Francisco are using a novel technique to remove tumors from the cervical region of the spine that were previously thought "inoperable."Called a lateral paramedian transpedicular approach, the technique uses advances in spinal instrumentation and reconstructive strategies to provide a direct approach to the removal of cervical spinal tumors with minimal, or no, neural manipulation. Free Science Magazines
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The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Finding Lymph Node Metastases In Cancer
In a paper published in the premier open-access medical journal PloS Medicine this month, Mukesh Harisinghani and Ralph Weissleder describe a technique that could begin to make the staging of cancer both more accurate and less invasive. Positive Results More Likely From Industry-funded Breast Cancer Trials
Industry-funded studies of breast cancer therapies are more likely to report positive results than non-pharmaceutical funded studies, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute have found. In addition, significant differences exist in the design and nature of clinical trials supported by the pharmaceutical industry compared to trials without industry involvement. Novel Gene Transfer Prevents Hypertension-Related Enlarged Heart, Card
Using a novel vector delivery system researchers at the University of Florida designed a "nifty, seemingly simple idea"that turned out to produce significant results in terms of preventing enlargement and hardening of the heart associated with hypertension.
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