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Article Archive for January 2010

Friday Science Spree 01/29/10
Submitted by on January 29, 2010 – 10:20 am | No Comment

Generation of functional blood vessels from stem cells via Next Big Future and Nature
Altered microbe makes biofuel – naturenews
Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design – Science
FDA Raises Flag On Bisphenol A – C&EN
The Neural …

Fatty Foods Affect Brain Before Weight
Submitted by on January 28, 2010 – 4:50 pm | No Comment
Fatty Foods Affect Brain Before Weight

High amounts of fat in food, such as ice cream, not only affect a person’s stomach but also their brain. Some of the fat travels to the brain, which then causes the brain to send …

New Research Finds Novel Uses for Old Drugs
Submitted by on January 27, 2010 – 9:59 am | No Comment
New Research Finds Novel Uses for Old Drugs

A recent article in C&EN reports that scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to …

Will research journals going web 2.0 really matter?
Submitted by on January 25, 2010 – 5:07 pm | No Comment

Cell published their first ‘Article of the Future‘ a couple of weeks ago; arstechnica has a good summary. The format, while new to scientific publishing, utilizes some of the better technologies that have been available …

Friday Science Spree 01/22/10
Submitted by on January 21, 2010 – 10:42 pm | No Comment

UVa engineers find significant environmental impacts with algae-based biofuel via Slashdot
Using acid/base chemistry to solve a maze via Nature
Lab accident under investigation
11-year-old’s science project leads to school evacuation via Techdirt via Slashdot
Fixing carbon dioxide as …

A Natural Lock on Tumor Growth
Submitted by on January 20, 2010 – 5:08 pm | No Comment
A Natural Lock on Tumor Growth

At the University of California, researchers have been studying RNA interface(RNAi), a naturally occurring system that turns genes on and off, and the proteins drosha and dicer. The research has focused on spacial and …

Chocoholics Beware: Addiction could be worse than you think…
Submitted by on January 20, 2010 – 3:36 pm | No Comment
Chocoholics Beware: Addiction could be worse than you think…

A recent study by the Scripps Research Institute Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders reveals an interesting fact about food addiction. While it has been known that sugary or fatty foods can cause an …