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News | Archive (28 May 2009)
Portable device can detect viruses in minutes
— 18:00 GMT | HealthImagine being able to detect in just a few minutes whether someone is infected with a virus. This has now become a reality, thanks to a new ultra-sensitive detector that has been developed by Ostendum, a spin-off company of the University of Twente…
Long-distance brain waves focus attention
— 18:00 GMT | BiologyJust as our world buzzes with distractions - from phone calls to e-mails to tweets - the neurones in our brain are bombarded with messages. Research has shown that when we pay attention, some of these neurones begin firing in unison, like a chorus rising above the noise. Now, a study in the 29 May issue of Science reveals the likely brain centre that serves as the conductor of this neural chorus…
XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge
— 15:24 GMT | AstronomyUsing new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy. The galaxy - known as 1H0707-495 - was observed during four 48-hr-long orbits of XMM-Newton around Earth, starting in January 2008. The black hole at its centre was thought to be partially obscured from view by intervening clouds of gas and dust, but these current observations have revealed the innermost depths of the galaxy…
New Rockefeller faculty member studies mechanisms of DNA repair
— 15:22 GMT | HealthAgata Smogorzewska, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on DNA repair and on the molecular basis of Fanconi anaemia, a genomic instability syndrome that leads to leukaemia and other forms of cancer, has been named assistant professor and will join The Rockefeller University as head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance in July 2009…
Mayo researchers help discover genetic cause for primary biliary cirrhosis
— 15:17 GMT | HealthResearchers have discovered a novel molecular path that predisposes patients to develop primary biliary cirrhosis, a disease that mainly affects women and slowly destroys their livers. Primary biliary cirrhosis has no known cause…
Dementia drugs may put some patients at risk, Queen's study shows
— 15:12 GMT | HealthSide effects associated with several commonly-prescribed dementia drugs may be putting elderly Canadians at risk, says Queen's University Geriatrics professor Sudeep Gill…
Breastfeeding duration and weaning diet may shape child's body composition
— 15:07 GMT | HealthVariations in both milk feeding and in the weaning diet are linked to differences in growth and development, and they have independent influences on body composition in early childhood, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM)…
NASA selects student's entry as new Mars rover name
— 15:02 GMT | AstronomyNASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa submitted the winning entry, 'Curiosity.' As her prize, Ma wins a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where she will be invited to sign her name directly onto the rover as it is being assembled…
Roommate assignments key in increasing interracial college friendships
— 14:57 GMT | HealthWhite students generally increased their number of interracial friendships during their first year of college, while black students showed a slight decrease, according to a study at one highly selective private university…
New therapy enlists immune system to boost cure rate in a childhood cancer
— 14:52 GMT | HealthA multicentre research team has announced encouraging results for an experimental therapy using elements of the body's immune system to improve cure rates for children with neuroblastoma, a challenging cancer of the nervous system…
R Coronae Australis: A cosmic water-colour
Zapping Titan-like atmosphere with UV rays creates life precursors