December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
It’s been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinnest material in the world.
Categories: Science & Nanotechnology | 
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December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
Cells in your body are constantly churning out poisonous forms of oxygen (oxidants) and mopping them up with a countervailing force of proteins and chemicals (anti-oxidants).
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: Abnormally, alzheimer, antioxidant, antioxidants, associate professor, balancing act, beta cells, blood glucose, CTS, diabetes, diabetes center, experimental mice, faseb journal, growth, hadn, haywire, heart disease, initial discovery, insulin, insulin production, M.D., oxidants, oxygen, pancreas, postdoctoral, postdoctoral fellow, principal investigator, proteins, Robert Stanton, Rohit Kulkarni, type 2 diabetes, worldwide scientists | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief – just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: assistant professor, belief, biological psychiatry, brain, center scientists, cocaine, CTS, dr jeffrey, empty stomach, empty wallet, ghrelin, grocery store aisles, hunger, internal medicine, mice, premise, prior research, researcher, rewarding aspects, southwestern medical center, ut southwestern | No Comments »
December 14, 2009 | Posted by admin
Infectious diseases can be transmitted by sneezing, touching, or – for Tasmanian devils – biting each other on the face, a habit that may have driven the dinosaurs to extinction through the transmission of a protozoan parasite.
Categories: Space & Earth | Tags: CTS, dinosaurs, doves, extinction, extreme cases, fossil, fossils, infectious diseases, jaw bones, jawbone, jawbones, organism, pigeons, plos one, protozoan parasite, raptors, similarity, tasmanian devils, turkeys, ulceration, upper digestive tract | No Comments »
December 14, 2009 | Posted by admin
Washu School of Medicine researchers have shown that highly targeted radiation therapy improves survival and lessens treatment-related complications in cervical cancer patients.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: barnes jewish hospital, cancer death, cancer patients, cause of cancer, central nervous system, cervical cancer, chemotherapy drug, CTS, external beam radiation, intensity modulated radiation therapy, international journal of radiation oncology biology physics, part, pelvic region, percent, Physics, postoperative treatment, radiation dose, radiation oncology, radiation therapy imrt, radioactive source, research, siteman cancer center, three dimensional shape, treatment policies | No Comments »
December 13, 2009 | Posted by admin
An investigation by the University of Kansas’ Adrian Melott and colleagues reveals a promising new method of detecting past comet strikes upon Earth and gauging their frequency
LAWRENCE, Kan. — It’s the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth’s atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave [...]
Categories: Space & Earth | Tags: adjunct associate professor, adrian melott, american geophysical union, assistant professor, atmospheric ammonia, brian thomas, central siberia, comet impacts, comet strikes, craters, CTS, disaster epic, Earth, high nitrate, hou, ice cores, impact events, nitrate levels, nitrates, part, Physics, process, research, scientists, shock wave, splitting the sky, stem, tunguska event, University, university of kansas, washburn university | No Comments »
December 13, 2009 | Posted by admin
DURHAM, N.C. – As good as laparoscopy is in preventing some of the stresses of open surgery on the body, it does have drawbacks, including reduced blood flow and organ dysfunction. Laparoscopy is a type of surgery in the abdomen done through small incisions.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: arterial pressure, associate professor, author james, bioactivity, blood gas, carbo, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide gas, cardiac output, cells, chemical parameters, concentration, CTS, duke university, duke university medical, duke university medical center, DURHAM, endosurgery, functioning, hou, incisions, invasive surgery, James D. Reynolds, kidney function, medical procedures, N.C., normal blood, open surgery, organ dysfunction, oxygen, part, research, surgical patients, University | No Comments »