Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @10:18AM from the nothing-to-see-here-move-along dept. eldavojohn writes with an update to the CRU email leak story we've been following for the past two weeks. The peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature has published an article saying the emails do not demonstrate any sort of "scientific conspiracy," and that the journal doesn't intend to investi
Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Thursday November 19, 2009 @07:12PM from the phalanges-are-fine-thanks dept. Lucas123 writes "Scientists at Intel are working on developing sensors that would be implanted in a person's head in order to harness brain waves that could then be used to control computers, televisions, cell phones and other electronic equipment. Intel has already used Functional Magnetic Resonance
Enzyme Found To Help Formation of New Axons - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Friday November 06, 2009 @12:33PM from the some-nerve dept. Greg George writes "Researchers at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that they have found an enzyme that helps nerves to grow in areas damaged after trauma. In typical injuries, scar tissue forms around the damage point and the body removes the tissue so that new muscle and nerves can
Facial Bones Grown From Fat-Derived Stem Cells - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 17, 2009 @10:53PM from the best-face-forward dept. TheClockworkSoul sends in an article up at Scientific American, from which we quote: "Stem cells so far have been used to mend tissues ranging from damaged hearts to collapsed tracheas. Now the multifaceted cells have proved successful at regrowing bone in humans. In the first procedure of its kind, doctors at
Nanomedicine Kills Brain Cancer Cells - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 09, 2009 @10:02PM from the take-two-nanites-and-call-me-in-the-morning dept. destinyland writes "Scientists from the University of Chicago and the US Department of Energy have developed the first nanoparticles that seek out and destroy GMB brain cancer cells. Nanoparticles killed up to 80% of the brain cancer cells after just five minutes of exposure to white
IBM Researchers Working Toward Cheap, Fast DNA Reader - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:54AM from the reminds-me-of-creepy-ibm-ads dept. nk497 writes "IBM scientists are working on ambitious research where nano-sized holes will be drilled into computer chips and DNA passed through to create a 'genetic code reader.' A DNA molecule would be passed through a hole just three nanometers wide, while an electrical sensor 'reads' the DNA. The
Huge ISS Science Report Released - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 03, 2009 @10:20AM from the see-guys-we-don't-need-the-moon-really dept. Earthquake Retrofit writes "NASA has released an extensive report (PDF) on science results from over 100 experiments performed at the International Space Station. From the summary: 'One of the most compelling results reported is the confirmation that the ability of common germs to cause
Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Friday October 02, 2009 @10:23AM from the getting-at-the-root-or-at-least-the-stem dept. SubtleGuest writes "In the latest issue of Cancer Research, a breakthrough study shows that Metformin, a cheap and common diabetic medicine, kills cancer stem cells — the cells postulated to be responsible for tumor resistance and recurrence after chemotherapy (research abstract here). It
Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @03:36PM from the to-be-aware-of dept. natehoy writes "According to the US News and World Report, a recent study has shown a link between obesity and the loss of neurological tissue. The brains of elderly patients who were obese had on average 8% less tissue than their trimmer counterparts. Overweight patients had brains lighter by about 4%. This coul
Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea - Slashdot
Al writes "A woman with a rare, inherited form of blindness is now able to read, thanks to a gene therapy that caused a new fovea — the part of the retina that is most densely populated with photoreceptors — to grow in her eye. The patient suffers from Leber congenital amaurosis, meaning an abnormal protein makes her photoreceptors have a severely impaired sensitivity to light. She received the ex
Prehistoric Gene Reawakened To Battle HIV - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:23PM from the learning-from-our-distant-cousins dept. Linuss points out research published in PLoS Biology that demonstrates the reawakening of latent human cells' ability to manufacture an HIV defense. A group of scientists led by Nitya Venkataraman began with the knowledge that Old World monkeys have a built-in immunity to HIV: a protein that can p
Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @02:39PM from the sit-up-straight dept. An anonymous reader sends along a piece in Cosmos about new dissension to the current prevailing wisdom on dinosaur posture. The researchers admit that blood pressure presents an unresolved obstacle to their model of dinosaur heads held high. "The current depiction of the way giant sauropod dinosaurs held their neck
Gene Transfer Immunizes Against Monkey HIV Analog - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @12:58PM from the good-to-live-in-the-21st-century dept. Al writes "Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have immunized monkeys against the simian immunodeficiency virus, the animal model that is closest to HIV. They did so by shuttling a gene into the monkeys' muscles, making the muscle cells produce antibody-like molecules that work against SIV.
UV-Resistant Micro-Organisms Discovered In the Stratosphere - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:57AM from the insight-from-above dept. junglee_iitk writes "Three new species of bacteria, which are not found on earth and highly resistant to ultraviolet radiation, have been discovered in the upper stratosphere by some Indian scientists. These bacteria, which do not match any species on earth, were found in samples collected through a balloon sent
Europa Selected As Target of Next Flagship Mission - Slashdot
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @10:00PM from the my-favorite-moon dept. volcanopele writes "NASA and the European Space Agency announced today that they have selected the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next large mission to the outer solar system. For the last year, the Europa mission has been in competition with a proposal to send a mission to Saturn's moon Titan, as rep
Hacking With Synthetic Biology - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @01:35PM from the don't-lick-your-fingers dept. blackbearnh writes "If you've gotten tired of hacking firewalls or cloud computing, maybe it's time to try your hand with DNA. That's what Reshma Shetty is doing with her Doctorate in Biological Engineering from MIT. Apart from her crowning achievement of getting bacteria to smell like mint and bananas,
Web of Trust For Scientific Publications - Slashdot
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @06:08PM from the chickenscratch-my-back-I'll-chickenscratch-yours dept. An anonymous reader writes "PGP and GnuPG have been utilizing webs of trust to establish authenticity without a centralized certificate authority for a while. Now, a new tool seeks to extend the concept to include scientific publications. The idea is that researchers can review
Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned - Slashdot
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 01, 2009 @01:32PM from the intrepid-endeavor dept. jamie points out a story in the Telegraph about a project to clone the Pyrenean Ibex (known also as bucardo), a species that went extinct in 2000. Before the last known member of the species died, scientists took tissue samples to begin a project to clone the animal. "Using techniques similar to those used to
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? - Slashdot
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @06:07AM from the banking-on-future-research dept. Maestro writes "There must be many parents (and soon-to-be parents) here at Slashdot. What are your thoughts on umbilical cord blood banking? This seems like a major question for our newborn; the question is almost as stressful for us as naming the baby. Given Obama's stance on stem cells, the topic
Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria) - Slashdot
Shipud writes "There are ten times more bacterial cells in our body than our own cells. Most of them are located in our guts, and they affect our well-being in many ways. A group at Washington University has recently reported that although our gut microbes perform similar functions, it appears that different people have completely different compositions of gut bacteria: every man is an island, a u
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