Noteworthy Web Articles: October 2012
Wellness News You Can Use
- Watermelon shown to boost heart health, control weight gain in mice
- Innovative New Defibrillator Offers Alternative for Regulating Heart beat
- Tomatoes are 'stroke preventers'
- Preventing infection on long flights
- Aspirin’s impact on colorectal cancer
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- National Settings Help the Brain Function
- Scientists prevent heart failure in mice
- Sticky paper offers cheap, easy solution for paper-based diagnostics
- NIST, Columbia Engineering Collaborate on Inexpensive DNA Sequencing Method
- Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell work
- Nobel prize for chromosome find
- EU acts against harm from biofuel crops
- Is language unique to humans?
- Genes and Sneakers
- How silver turns people blue
- Measuring molecules with the naked eye
- How Bees Decide What To Be
- Diseases of aging map to a few ‘hotspots’ on the human genome
- Nanoparticles Detect Biochemistry of Inflammation
- Early life adversity affects broad regions of brain DNA
- Study of research-paper submissions sheds new light
- The body's own recycling system
- Biocompatible electronics for health monitoring vanish when no longer needed
- Scientists Discover that Shape Matters in DNA Nanoparticle Therapy
- New Reactions with Click Chemistry
- Scientists develop affordable way to generate medical isotopes
- Cells control energy metabolism via hedgehog signalling pathway
- Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection
- Notre Dame researcher helps make Sudoku puzzles less puzzling
- Eco-friendly Optics: Spider Silk’s Hidden Talents Brought to Light for Applications in Biosensors, Lasers, Microchips
- Penn Researchers Find New Way to Mimic the Color and Texture of Butterfly Wings
- Air pollution study clears the air on diesel versus gas emissions
- Additive Restores Antibiotic Effectiveness Against MRSA
- The minimal microbe
- Calcium reveals connections between neurons
- Modeling feat sheds light on protein channel's function
- Non-coding antisense RNA can be used to stimulate protein production
- 1000 genomes study is ‘guidebook’ to how genes vary
- Bacteria cocktail eradicates Clostridium difficile infection in mice
- Brain changes suggest a biological basis for loneliness
- Study reveals brain changes in teenage girls with severe antisocial behaviour
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital image of blood-brain barrier wins photo competition
- New Inhibitors of Elusive Enzymes Promise to Be Valuable Scientific Tools
- Scripps Research Institute Study Suggests Caution and Further Studies on Drugs Used to Treat Macular Degeneration
- Scripps Research Institute Discovery of Biological Energy-Sensing Switch Could Have Broad Implications for Biology and Medicine
- New genetic links for Crohn’s, colitis
- eLife Publishes First Research Articles