Archive for June 28th, 2008

Cystic Fibrosis - Axentis Pharma Takes Over Patents and Continues

Zurich, 26 June 2008. The rights to key patents for an innovative screening tool for treatments for cystic fibrosis were transferred today to Swiss biotech company Axentis Pharma AG. The company has acquired the rights from an Austrian

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Testing the Toxicity of Nanoparticles

Neurite. Nanoparticles are so handy that they have been showing up everywhere, from tennis balls to genetic tests, but there are few tests that can tell whether they are harmful to humans. Researchers in Dublin and Ann Arbor have

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Earthquake Threatens Pandas

Massive landslides and damage to their forest habitat may endanger as much as 90 percent of China’s panda population.

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

California Traffic: Like a Wildfire Every 9 Days

California_wildfire For every acre of California forest that burns in this week’s one-thousand blazes, about 17 tons of carbon dioxide are being released into the atmosphere. With an estimated 265000 acres scorched already,

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Cosmonauts to Remove Suspect Explosive Bolt from Soyuz During July

Soyuztwo_modules On July 11th, the two cosmonauts on board the International Space Station will venture outside to remove an explosive bolt that holds the Soyuz return capsule to its propulsion module and bring it inside for testing.

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Pieces of Ancient Earth May Be Hidden On the Moon

swestcott brings us a story from Space.com about the possibility of finding evidence for ancient Earth life on the moon. A team of scientists has published work confirming that meteorites originating from Earth could have remained

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking

WSJdpatton writes “Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

A Blogoversary Of Note

Happy Second Blogoversary Janie! Read the comments on this post…

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Summer reading 3: Good Germs, Bad Germs by Jessica Snyder Sachs

Balance is a tricky thing to find in area, and medicine is notorious for its trade-offs. A drug that may make you well in the long run may also have side effects that make taking the medicine difficult. Even drugs that we often think of

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Must go wash eyeballs and ears now

Admit it: you’ve been wondering what Fred Phelps thinks of George Carlin. If you’d rather not click, rest assured: it’s exactly what you might expect. Read the comments on this post…

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008