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UN University launches online OpenCourseWare portal

02-04-2008 · EurekAlert!

The new UN University OpenCourseWare Portal offers open access to courses that have been developed by units of the United Nations University system. These CC-licensed course materials are available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world; the content can be used by educators for curriculum development, by students to augment their current learning resources, and by individuals for independent self-study.

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New cancer weapon: nuclear nanocapsules
08-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Rice University chemists have found a way to package some of nature's most powerful radioactive particles inside carbon nanotubes. Alpha-particle radiation is so powerful that cancer cells can be destroyed with just one direct hit from an alpha particle on a cell nucleus. Rice's researchers hope to use their new technology to target tiny tumors and even lone leukemia cells. Their research is available online from the journal Small.
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University of Alberta researchers find new cause of blindness
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a paper published in the September 5 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Drs. Joe Casey and Yves Sauvé found evidence for blindness associated with a gene involved in retinal pH regulation. Their characterization of a mouse model with a targeted disruption of the Slc4a3 gene has revealed a new cause of blindness.
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Why conservation efforts often fail
09-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
In this week's special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (online), Indiana University political scientist Elinor Ostrom and colleagues argue that while many basic conservation strategies are sound, their use is often flawed. The strategies are applied too generally, they say, as an inflexible, regulatory "blueprint" that foolishly ignores local customs, economics and politics.
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09-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulates appetite. Now, a new study finds that women with anorexia have distinct differences in the insulta -- the specific part of the brain that is important for recognizing taste -- according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh and UCSD researchers currently online in advance of publication in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
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New telomere discovery could help explain why cancer cells never stop dividing
10-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
A group working at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in collaboration with the University of Pavia has discovered that telomeres, the repeated DNA-protein complexes at the end of chromosomes that progressively shorten every time a cell divides, also contain RNA. This discovery, published online Oct. 4 in Science Express, calls into question our understanding of how telomeres function, and may provide a new avenue of attack for stopping telomere renewal in cancer cells.
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11-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
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11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
What is the fundamental creative force behind life on Earth? It's a question that has vexed mankind for millennia, and thanks to theory and almost a year's worth of number-crunching on a supercomputer, Rice University physicist and bioengineer Michael Deem thinks he has the answer: a changing environment may organize the structure of genetic information itself. The research is available online and slated to appear next month in Physical Review Letters.
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