If the human immunological system is weakened, yeast fungi that are normally harmless can be…
Month: October 2010
How injured nerves grow themselves back
Unlike nerves of the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves that connect our limbs and organs…
Turning waste heat into power
Physicists have discovered a new way of harvesting waste heat and turning it into electrical…
Iran cleans industrial computers of stuxnet virus (AFP)
AFP – Industrial computers infected by Stuxnet in Iran have been cleaned and returned to…
Exercise associated with lower rate of fractures in elderly women
Home-based exercises followed by voluntary home training seem to be associated with long-term effects on…
NASA’s EPOXI mission sets up for comet flyby
On Sept. 29, 2010, navigators and mission controllers for NASA’s EPOXI mission watched their computer…
c-Met may be a biomarker for metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma
Targeting c-Met may be a promising personalized treatment method for approximately 45 percent of patients…
Digging deep for ways to curb ammonia emissions
Dairy farmers can greatly reduce ammonia emissions from their production facilities by injecting liquid manure…
Early surgery after hip fractures reduces death, study finds
Performing early surgery on elderly hip fracture patients reduces the risk of death by 19…
Adult stem cells that do not age
Biomedical researchers have engineered adult stem cells that scientists can grow continuously in culture, a…