As many as 70 percent of patients were unaware they suffered a minor stroke and…
Month: April 2010
Rock of ages: Clues about Mars evolution revealed
Through the study of a popular Martian meteorite’s age, researchers have made significant discoveries about…
Home entertainment Q1 sales off 8 percent: report (Reuters)
Reuters – Consumer spending on home entertainment products, including DVDs, Blu-ray discs and digitally distributed…
Google 1Q growth accelerates while stock reverses (AP)
AP – Coming off a stellar first quarter, Google Inc. seems to have regained the…
Android App Video Review: CallTrack (Appolicious)
Appolicious – Store a log of all your calls in a place where you’ll actually…
Childhood obesity interventions must begin early, experts say
To be a truly comprehensive and successful anti-obesity program, First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move”…
Grid technology comes to the iPhone and Sony PlayStation 3
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the world’s largest multi-disciplinary computing grid, supporting the research…
Growth curve analyses of Finnish population shed light on the genetic regulation of growth in height
Researchers in Finland have shown that a gene called LIN28B strongly influences height growth from…
Mitochondria: New functions of mitochondrial fusion uncovered
A typical human cell contains hundreds of mitochondria — energy-producing organelles — that continually fuse…
Cataloguing cancer codes: International Cancer Genome Consortium plans to sequence 25,000 cancer genomes
One of the most ambitious biomedical research efforts since the Human Genome Project, the International…