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Month: March 2009
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Google’s openness intensifies focus on e-mail woes (AP)
AP – Google Inc.’s recent pledge to be more open about periodic service outages appears…
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Live Fast, Die Young? Maybe Not
The theory that a higher metabolism means a shorter lifespan may have reached the end…
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Synthetic Gene Circuit Allows Precise Dosing Of Gene Expression
Researchers have crafted a gene circuit that permits precise tuning of a gene’s expression in…
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Migraine Mice Exhibit Enhanced Excitatory Transmission At Cortical Synapses
New research is unraveling the complex brain mechanisms associated with disabling migraine headaches. The study…
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New ‘Pollution Radar’ Developed To Provide Unprecedented Picture Of Urban Smog
Scientists and industrialists have invented a sophisticated new air quality measuring device that can act…
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‘Personalized’ Genome Sequencing Reveals Coding Error In Gene For Inherited Pancreatic Cancer
Scientists have used “personalized genome” sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic…
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Spotless Mind? Fear Memories In Humans Weakened With Beta-blocker Propranolol
Dutch scientists have successfully reduced the fear response. They weakened fear memories in human volunteers…
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Fleeing customers haunt phone co. in New England (AP)
AP – Phone companies fear that customers will increasingly switch off their landlines in favor…
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Climate fears ‘being realised”
International scientists say the worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged just two years ago are…