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Improved Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets
Don't wait until overheating causes servers to fail. Plan the right cooling solution for your IT wiring closet or server room now. There's an improved method for wiring closet cooling...
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Creating plants with a kill switch (photos)
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visits an agriculture start-up in the Boston area that is genetically engineering proteins for energy crops to make biofuels.
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Artificial blood, cartilage, and...brain?
Researchers report a dose of new additions this week to the list of lab-produced versions of biological matter; And, taken together, the trio of announcements below span the gamut of organic...
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Fast and cheap blood tests
According to Technology Review, U.S. researchers have developed an integrated blood barcode chip which can identify what's in your blood in less than 10 minutes. Instead of going to a lab, having...
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A protein version of a Vermeer masterwork
Canadian scientists have recreated a famous painting from Vermeer on the microscale by using a new protein patterning technique. In fact, they've used a new laser method to draw protein pictures....
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Take the CRP in my blood down, or the new statin dance
Many people with low cholesterol have heart attacks anyway, and a drug trial known as JUPITER, bankrolled by a statin maker, found that reducing CRP levels actually cut risks of a stroke or other...
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A new method to study origin of life
U.S. researchers at Penn State University have developed a new computational method to understand how life began on Earth about four billion years ago. According to the scientists, their method...
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Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early...
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Supercomputers fight against bird flu
A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are...
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GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease
What makes GSMs so promising is that, while statins may stop plaque from forming they do nothing about plaque which is there, while with the new drugs "GSM agents actually stick to the Abeta...
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Nanorobots to improve health care
Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team...
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Protein nanotech in next gen storage
The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will allow 10 TB 2.5" disks in a few years. But then what?...
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Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes
A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual...
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The diabetes trial failure
New studies involving enzymes, proteins and genes may well yield new clues as to how the diabetes progresses and how to deal with it. So this "failure" actually represents an enormous opportunity...
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3-D pictures of a cancer-promoting enzyme
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have built a 3-D picture of an enzyme which can promote many types of cancers after mutation. This enzyme, known as PIK3CA, "is mutated frequently in many cancers,...
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Predicting drug side effects
It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of...
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Nanorobots for drug delivery?
The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them....
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A supercomputer to design better plants?
Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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800,000 computers to fight cancer
Canadian researchers have started the "Help Conquer Cancer" initiative. They hope to accelerate their research by using the computers of 330,000 people who volunteered to give their idle computer...
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PS3 gamers are real world heroes
Quick, are gamers socially impaired, violence prone losers or technically hip, socially conscious good guys? The numbers don't lie: Sony Playstation3 participation is 30x that of Windows machines...
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The genetic secrets of the black widow spider
Biologists at the University of California at Riverside (UCR) have identified the genes for two key proteins in the 'dragline silk' of the black widow spider. This silk, one of the seven different...
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