Despite recent widespread media attention given to studies that have indicated one-third of American children…
Month: January 2009
Weakened RNA Interference Reduces Survival In Ovarian Cancer
Levels of two proteins in a woman’s ovarian cancer are strongly associated with her likelihood…
Spanish Droughts Over Past 500 Years Reconstructed
Scientists have reconstructed the pattern of droughts in Spain between 1506 and 1900 on the…
Toxicity Mechanism Identified For Parkinson’s Disease
Alpha-synuclein is the main component of Lewy bodies, the clumps of aggregated proteins that form…
The Gold Standard: Nanoparticles Used To Make 3-D DNA Nanotubes
Scientists reveal for the first time the 3-D character of DNA nanotubules, rings and spirals,…
Google Store Will Help Android Developers Earn Cash
Google’s Android App Market will begin selling applications early this year. Google had promised a…
Mac OS X Advances as Microsoft’s Windows Drops
Apple secured a larger piece of the operating-system pie in December. Mac OS X, which…
Get a Grip With Griffin iPod-to-TV Cables
Getting video out of your iPod and onto a television screen is often both easy…
Linux Netbooks: What’s on the Menu?
I recently carried out a personal quest for a netbook computer. Relying on a bit…
Traditional Journalists Look Warily Toward 2009
I’m writing this on Tuesday evening Pacific Time, Dec. 30, 2008. It will be published…