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Brown rot shrivels prune production in California
03-30-2007 · EurekAlert!Brown rot is one of the most economically and ecologically important diseases affecting California’s $100 million prune industry, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS).
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- Genomic variation easier to identify with UCSD/Brown software
12-22-2006 · EurekAlert!
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Brown University have created a software system that more accurately detects "microinversions," mutations that consist of tiny sequences of reversed DNA. The software gives biologists a powerful new tool to study genomic variation between and within species. The system is explained in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- 28 new planets, 7 new brown dwarfs reported by California, Carnegie team
05-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
The combined California and Carnegie Planet Search team and Anglo-Australian Planet Search team announced at this week's American Astronomical Society meeting the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, a 12 percent increase in the number of known exoplanets. The bounty of new planets, not to mention seven new brown dwarfs, allows the astronomers to draw conclusions about how planets form and how planet systems evolve.
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- Changes in west coast marine ecosystems significant
02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
The California Current system has experienced significant changes during the past decade, resulting in dramatic variations in the ecosystem, characterized by shifts in phytoplankton production, expanding hypoxic zones, and the collapse of marine food webs off the western coast of the United States. These changes, driven by new wind patterns, are consistent with predictive models of global climate change.
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- Why liver cancer is more prevalent in males than in females
07-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Production of a protein that promotes inflammation appears to be linked to the higher incidence of liver cancer in men than in women, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have determined in mouse studies.
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- Toward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music
10-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers in California report development of the world's first working radio system that receives radio waves wirelessly and converts them to sound signals through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes. The 'carbon nanotube radio' device is thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The development marks an important step in the evolution of nano-electronics and could lead to the production of the world's smallest radio, the scientists say.
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- Feeling the heat
01-10-2008 · EurekAlert!
Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. The far-ranging potential applications of this technology include DOE's hydrogen fuel cell-powered "Freedom CAR," and personal power-jackets that could use heat from the human body to recharge cell-phones and other electronic devices.
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- UC San Diego physicists observe new property of matter
11-01-2006 · EurekAlert!
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors to function as novel electronic devices.
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- Scientists find brown fat master switch
07-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a long-sought "master switch" in mice for the production of brown fat, a type of adipose tissue that generates heat and counters obesity caused by overeating. The findings suggest that turning up the equivalent switch in people might be a new strategy for treating overweight and obesity.
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- Slow but sure -- Burned forest lands regenerate naturally
04-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study of forest lands that burned in the 1990s in northern California and southwestern Oregon has concluded there is a "fair to excellent" chance that an adequate level of conifers will regenerate naturally, in sites that had no manual planting or other forest management. Whether lands should be planted and weed competition controlled is more a question of short-term timber production, tree species control and forest management goals than the regeneration of the forest, the study indicated.
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- USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
06-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified specific molecular markers that may help to predict tumor recurrence in stage II and III colon cancer patients.
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