December 2008 (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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Archived news stories published in December 2008 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Roadkill study could speed detection of kidney cancer
Roadkill study could speed detection of kidney cancer — Large-scale data mining of gene networks in fruit flies has led researchers to a sensitive and specific diagnostic biomarker…
Dinosaur fossils fit perfectly into the evolutionary tree of life
Dinosaur fossils fit perfectly into the evolutionary tree of life — A recent study by researchers at the University of Bath and London's Natural History Museum has found that scientists' knowledge…
New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells
New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells — Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurones…
Gene's past could improve the future of rice
Gene's past could improve the future of rice — In an effort to improve rice varieties, a Purdue University researcher was part of a team that traced the evolutionary history…

Cell movements totally modular, Stanford study shows

— 1 Dec 2008 | Health

A study describing how cells within blood vessel walls move en masse overturns an assumption common in the age of genomics - that the proteins driving cell behaviour are doing so much multitasking that it would be near impossible to group them according to a few discrete functions…

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