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My first car was a Ford Gran Torino. It was a chocolate brown, 8-cylinder mess…

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have broken the magic barrier of one million revolutions per minute in collaboration with motor manufacturer ATE and ball bearings manufacturer myonic. It is the highest rotational speed ever achieved by an electric drive system.

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The painstaking process of detecting toxic species of platinum and palladium mixed in with the form of platinum essential to certain pharmaceuticals could be reduced to one simple step, University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the Nov. 14 online edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Understanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation and COST ‘Frontiers of Science’ conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two new approaches to the problem. The first applies complex systems theory to the chemistry that preceded early life. The second involves studying Mars, which may yield ample evidence about what Earth was like when life evolved.

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Arbor Vita presented new data today on its rapid, point-of-care prototype HPV test with a high positive predictive value for cervical cancer and pre-cancer. “Development of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Cervical Pre-Cancer and Cancer,” was presented during the “Molecular Markers” session at Eurogin 2008, an international conference providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific advances in the field of cervical cancer control, including early detection.

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We’ll hear about new work in the field of discovering exosolar planets — including research that used the Hubble Space Telescope to take optical images of a planet orbiting a star some 25 light years away.

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ASHG will host a press briefing session to highlight some of the top research presentations at the Society’s 58th Annual Meeting that report findings on important breakthroughs in the successful treatment of disease through novel genetic therapies and treatments, as well as new pharmacogenetics research findings that provide insights into appropriate drug dosage based on genetic variants. This session will take place on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 at 11:15 a.m. in the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

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Scientists have unraveled in unprecedented detail the cascade of events that go wrong in brain cells affected by HIV, a virus whose assault on the nervous system continues unabated despite antiviral medications that can keep the virus at bay for years in the rest of the body.

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University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have found a way to improve existing estimates of the amount of carbon absorbed by plants from the air, thereby improving the accuracy of global warming and land cover change estimates, according to a paper published in the Nov. 13 issue of the journal Science.

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