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News | Archive (24 September 2010)
Withering well can improve fertility
— 12:05 GMT | BiologyContrary to a thousand face cream adverts, the secret of fertility might not be eternal youth. Research by the ecologist Dr Carlos Herrera, a Professor of Research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Seville, Spain has shown that the withering action of flowers may have evolved to protect their seeds. His research is published in the October 2010 issue of the Annals of Botany…
New views of Saturn's aurora, captured by Cassini
— 12:02 GMT | AstronomyA new movie and images showing Saturn's shimmering aurora over a two-day period are helping scientists understand what drives some of the solar system's most impressive light shows…
Cassini gazes at veiled Titan
— 11:59 GMT | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft will swing high over Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Sept. 24, taking a long, sustained look at the hazy moon. At closest approach, Cassini will fly within 8,175 kilometres (5,080 miles) above the hazy moon's surface. This flyby is the first in a series of high-altitude Titan flybys for Cassini over the next year and a half…
Cancer-associated long non-coding RNA regulates pre-mRNA splicing
— 11:56 GMT | HealthResearchers report this month that MALAT1, a long non-coding RNA that is implicated in certain cancers, regulates pre-mRNA splicing - a critical step in the earliest stage of protein production. Their study appears in the journal Molecular Cell…
Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients say it's 'too easy'
— 11:53 GMT | HealthOne touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence…
UCLA cancer researchers discover new signalling pathway that controls cell development and cancer
— 11:50 GMT | HealthResearchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre have discovered a new cell signalling pathway that controls cell growth and development, a pathway that, when defective, helps promote the formation of several major forms of human cancer, including lymphoma and leukaemia…
Nonstick coating of a protein found in semen reduces HIV infection
— 11:47 GMT | HealthA non-stick coating for a substance found in semen dramatically lowers the rate of infection of immune cells by HIV a new study has found…
High pressure experiments reproduce mineral structures 1,800 miles deep
— 11:44 GMT | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of California, Berkeley, and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a long-standing puzzle: why some seismic waves travel faster than others through the boundary between the solid mantle and fluid outer core…
City living helped humans evolve immunity to TB
— 11:41 GMT | HealthNew research has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban living…
Team of researchers finds possible new genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease
— 11:38 GMT | HealthResearchers have identified a gene that appears to increase a person's risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of the disease. The gene, abbreviated as MTHFD1L, is on chromosome six, and was identified in a genome-wide association study. Details are published September 23 in the journal PLoS Genetics…
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