September 2010 (Archive)

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McDonald's recalls Shrek glasses due to potential cadmium risk — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced…
Hogchoker - the new Internet star — A small flatfish living along the coast of North America is the…
Cancer deaths are projected to double by 2030 — Cancer deaths are projected to double in the next two decades.…

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Wasps clock faces like humans — Face recognition in golden paper wasps may be an adaptation to…
Entangled diamonds vibrate together — Objects big enough for the eye to see have been placed in a weirdly…
How animals predict earthquakes — Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur…
New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact — Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there…

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News | Archive (30 September 2010) [Page 5]

Archived news stories published on 30 September 2010 [chronologically, reverse order]
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The dusty disc of NGC 247
The dusty disc of NGC 247 — The spiral galaxy NGC 247 is one of the closest spiral galaxies of the southern sky. In this new view from the Wide Field…
Planet formation in action?
Planet formation in action? — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material…
Reflected glory
Reflected glory — Messier 78 is a fine example of a reflection nebula. The ultraviolet radiation from the stars that illuminate it is not intense…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds — Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los…

Screening tool can detect colorectal cancer from a small blood sample

— 11:20 GMT | Health

A new microRNA (miRNA) screening assay detected the majority of early-stage colorectal cancers with good specificity and sensitivity…

Novel test following prostate surgery could detect cancer recurrence earlier

— 11:17 GMT | Health

A new test could reliably detect early increases in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels - a biomarker commonly used to measure the recurrence of prostate cancer - in men who have undergone prostate cancer-treating surgery. Earlier detection of these rising levels would allow men with cancer recurrence to undergo earlier, more effective treatment for potentially better outcomes…

MicroRNA panel provides a more precise lung cancer diagnosis

— 11:14 GMT | Health

A test based on a panel of microRNAs under development by Rosetta Genomics, Ltd., in Rehovot, Israel, may allow for more precise diagnosis and better targeted therapy for patients with lung cancer…

Dual-capture CTC chip efficiently captures breast cancer cells

— 11:11 GMT | Health

Researchers have identified a novel, dual-platform technology, the On-Q-ity Circulating Cancer Capture and Characterisation Chip (C5), which they believe is more efficient than the commonly used single-platform device in identifying circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in breast cancer…

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