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Creating from Scratch
05-14-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT Media Lab's Scratch aims to turn kids from media consumers into media producers. The new software enables kids to create their own interactive stories, games, music, and animation for the Web, but without having to learn complex programming languages.
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- Vax and Pax: Taking turns to build an eye
10-14-2006 · EurekAlert!
Opposing ball clubs don't take the field at the same time, and neither do teams of proteins responsible for creating the eye. That's why researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies were surprised to find the respective team captains -- Vax2, a protein that along with Vax1 builds the optic nerve cord, and Pax6, a protein that drives retinal fate -- playing on the same field.
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- Prediction markets accurately forecast influenza activity
12-21-2006 · EurekAlert!
Influenza experts have borrowed a page from economists, creating a futures market for influenza activity that predicted outbreaks two to four weeks in advance. The influenza prediction market is presented in the January 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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- Ingredient in Big Macs and sodas can stabilize
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
The potential of gold nanoparticles to detect and treat cancer has been hindered by the difficulty of making them in a stable, nontoxic form that can be injected into a patient. New research at the University of Missouri-Columbia has found that a plant extract can be used to overcome this problem, creating a new type of gold nanoparticle that is stable and nontoxic and can be administered orally or injected.
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- Cold Spring Harbor Protocols highlights reliable methods for gene and protein analyses
04-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
This month's release of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols highlights methods for creating and detecting specific proteins, as well as for characterizing the activities of specific genes during embryonic development. Two of the methods are freely available online.
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- Nanotube adhesive sticks better than a gecko's foot
06-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have taken one sticky step in the right direction, creating synthetic "gecko tape" with four times the sticking power of the real thing.
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- Networks create 'instant world telescope'
09-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power of high-speed global networks and effectively creating a telescope almost as big as the Earth.
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- Researchers at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System to study airway bypass treatment for emphysema
12-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System today announced the start of the EASE trial, an international, multi-center clinical trial to explore an investigational treatment that may offer a significant new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering with advanced widespread emphysema. The study focuses on a procedure called airway bypass that involves creating pathways in the lung for trapped air to escape and in turn, relieve emphysema symptoms including shortness of breath.
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- Climate change goes underground
08-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists from around the world have begun to scratch the surface of the impact climate change has on water and soil below the earth's surface. Developing research has exposed the need for more information that will be vital to land and water management agencies and policy makers to better predict and respond to future climate shifts.
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- A salinity study in the Mobile Delta region
10-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
The Mobile Bay Causeway, creating a barrier between the fresher waters of the Delta and the saltier waters of the Gulf of Mexico, may have created persistent low salinity conditions that local conservationists believe have provided refuge for an exotic species of submerged aquatic vegetation, the Eurasian Milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) to survive in during periods when salinity is high throughout this estuary.
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- Wheat can fatally starve insect predators
01-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
A newly identified wheat gene produces proteins that appear to attack the stomach lining of a crop-destroying fly larvae so that the bugs starve to death. The gene's role in creating resistance to Hessian flies was a surprise to U.S. Department of Agriculture and Purdue University researchers, discoverers of the gene and its function.
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