Volume 5, Number 41 October 9, 2006

Physical sciences and technology Matter-antimatter asymmetry Neutrino physics Stellar birth rates in early galaxies 2MASS Redshift Survey Galactic structure of M31 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge Extrasolar planets Nanoelectronics Teleportation between light and matter Spintronics Global warming Blue straggler stars Ocean circulation and climate change Carbon nanotubes Giant gas loops of the Milky Way Census of active galactic nuclei Quasars Pressure waves around supermassive black hole in M87 Single-chip terahertz detectors Nanoscale surfaces for biological separations Life sciences Brain-imaging studies Cancer Osteoarthritis and aging Tuberculosis Evolution of bilateral symmetry in flowers Advantages of DNA as genetic material Australopithecus afarensis Evolution of shorebird breeding systems Alzheimer's disease AIDS Avian flu Myosin motor protein 'Protecting virus' anti-virals Brain-stomach interaction in overeating Failure of anti-obesity drugs Appropriate targets for LDL cholesterol reduction Appetite regulation Diabetes Egg fertilization Amnesia Rapid genome sequencing Reshuffling of plant genomes Stem cells Regulation of emotional response Emotions and decision making Drug discovery Variation in rates of evolution West Nile virus Mapping protein interactions Misfolded proteins and neurodegenerative diseases Allergy vaccine Immune response evolution CD8+ T-cells Biological computer models of the brain Timing of brain cell development Improved protein mass spectrometry Evolution of plant life cycles Evolution of multi-chambered hearts Cell fusion Extremophiles

Matter-antimatter asymmetry

1. October 2, 2006 - New Form Of Asymmetry Between Behavior Of Matter And Antimatter Discovered

Neutrino physics

1. October 2, 2006 - CERN Switches On Neutrino Beam To Gran Sasso

Stellar birth rates in early galaxies

1. October 2, 2006 - Stellar Birth Control In The Early Universe - also here
2. October 2, 2006 - Galactic Birth Control: Unknown Factor Prevents Star Formation

2MASS Redshift Survey

1. October 3, 2006 - Largest 3D map of nearby galaxies released

Galactic structure of M31

1. October 3, 2006 - Amazing Andromeda Galaxy

DARPA Urban Grand Challenge

1. October 3, 2006 - Robot cars will race in real traffic
2. October 6, 2006 - CU Team to Build a Self-Driving Car for City Streets

Extrasolar planets

1. October 4, 2006 - Hubble spots planets whose years hurtle by
2. October 4, 2006 - Distant planets orbit stars every 10 hours
3. October 4, 2006 - On Zippy New Planets, a Year is Just Hours Long
4. October 4, 2006 - Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
5. October 4, 2006 - Increasing the odds of the sweep
6. October 5, 2006 - Hubble Captures Evidence of Planets Far Away
7. October 5, 2006 - 'Galactic bulge' yields new exoplanets
8. October 5, 2006 - 16 Probable Planets Found in Milky Way
9. October 5, 2006 - New Planets Astound Astronomers in Speed and Distance
10. October 9, 2006 - Hubble finds 16 candidate extrasolar planets far across our Galaxy

Nanoelectronics

1. October 4, 2006 - Happy snaps from a virus-infested chip

Teleportation between light and matter

1. October 4, 2006 - First Teleportation Between Light and Matter
2. October 5, 2006 - Now you see it, now you don't
3. October 5, 2006 - Scientists teleport two different objects
4. October 6, 2006 - First Quantum Teleportation Between Light And Matter - also here
5. October 10, 2006 - First Quantum Teleportation Made Between Light and Matter

Spintronics

1. October 4, 2006 - Researchers Create Improved Magnetic-semiconductor Sandwich - also here

Global warming

1. October 4, 2006 - Global Warming Will Alter Character of the Northeast
2. October 4, 2006 - Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks As Temperatures Rise - also here
3. October 4, 2006 - Snowball Effect Fuels Arctic Meltdown
4. October 4, 2006 - Scientists issue global warming report - also here
5. October 4, 2006 - Extreme droughts will spread, warn forecasters - also here
6. October 4, 2006 - The century of drought
7. October 5, 2006 - Global Warming Could Spread Extreme Drought
8. October 5, 2006 - Continued warming of the Arctic Ocean

Blue straggler stars

1. October 4, 2006 - Stellar Vampires Unmasked
2. October 5, 2006 - Origin of Strange 'Blue Straggler' Stars Pinned Down

Ocean circulation and climate change

1. October 5, 2006 - Ice Age North Atlantic temperatures, tropical oceans linked
2. October 7, 2006 - Researchers Link Ice Age Climate-change Records To Ocean Salinity - also here
3. October 9, 2006 - Evidence From Ice Age That Climate Change Can Have A Rapid Effect On Ocean Circulation

Carbon nanotubes

1. October 5, 2006 - Here come the nanoSQUIDs
2. October 6, 2006 - Method Could Help Carbon Nanotubes Become Commercially Viable - also here
3. October 6, 2006 - Nanotube network could spot wing weakening
4. October 6, 2006 - Scientists Use Carbon Nanotube Networks To Detect Defects In Composites - also here

Giant gas loops of the Milky Way

1. October 5, 2006 - Giant gas loops found rising above the Milky Way

Census of active galactic nuclei

1. October 5, 2006 - NASA Completes Survey of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes
2. October 6, 2006 - NASA Performs Headcount of Local Black Holes
3. October 9, 2006 - Cosmos packed with black holes

Quasars

1. October 5, 2006 - Black Holes Power the Brightest Cosmic Objects, Study Confirms
2. October 6, 2006 - Astronomers See Inside A Quasar For The First Time
3. October 6, 2006 - Quasars Under the Lens
4. October 14, 2006 - Quasar workings revealed by gravitational lensing

Pressure waves around supermassive black hole in M87

1. October 6, 2006 - Black Hole Belts Out Discordant Musical
2. October 10, 2006 - Chandra Reviews Black Hole Musical: Epic But Off-key

Single-chip terahertz detectors

1. October 6, 2006 - Toward Terahertz Detectors on a Single, Conventional Chip

Nanoscale surfaces for biological separations

1. October 6, 2006 - Researchers to develop active nanoscale surfaces for biological separations

Brain-imaging studies

1. October 2, 2006 - Obese may be food 'junkies' with constant cravings
2. October 2, 2006 - Food may be like a drug for some, study shows
3. October 4, 2006 - Cognitive processing structure helps prevent emotional distractions

Cancer

1. October 2, 2006 - Combo therapy benefits some prostate cancer patients
2. October 2, 2006 - Potential Diagnostic Marker Indicates Effectiveness Of Anti-angiogenic Drugs
3. October 2, 2006 - Scientists Stop Colon Cancer Growth In Mice By Blocking Just One Enzyme - also here
4. October 2, 2006 - Antibiotic Inhibits Cancer Gene Activity - also here
5. October 2, 2006 - Impaired Gene Helps Nonsmall-cell Lung Cancer Resist Drug - also here
6. October 2, 2006 - Super Chow, Laced With Semi-synthetic Vitamin E Derivative, Inhibited Spread Of Cancer In Mice - also here
7. October 3, 2006 - Anti-cancer effect of aspirin clarified
8. October 3, 2006 - Fighting Cancer With Aspirin? - also here
9. October 3, 2006 - Moles Contain Self-Policing Cells against Cancer
10. October 3, 2006 - Molecular Atlas Provides New Tool For Understanding Estrogen-fueled Breast Cancer - also here
11. October 3, 2006 - Encouraging Results In Pancreatic Cancer Research
12. October 3, 2006 - New Angiogenesis Finding May Help Fight Cancer Growth
13. October 3, 2006 - Resistance to chemotherapy in lung cancer
14. October 4, 2006 - Lots of fruit may reduce oral cancer risk in men
15. October 4, 2006 - Antibiotic Treats Lymphoma Of The Eye - also here
16. October 4, 2006 - New Prostate Cancer Marker Helps Identify Men Whose Cancer Is Likely To Spread - also here
17. October 5, 2006 - Pooled Data Examines If SNPs Add To Breast Cancer Risk - also here
18. October 5, 2006 - Potential New Target For Skin Cancer Treatment - also here
19. October 5, 2006 - Why Don't All Moles Progress To Melanoma? - also here
20. October 5, 2006 - Three Molecular Triggers Threaten Leukemia Patients - also here
21. October 6, 2006 - Higher Levels Of Cells Originating In Bone Marrow May Be Useful In Prognosis Of Liver Cancer
22. October 6, 2006 - Natural Anti-viral Enzyme Helps Keep Cancer Cells Alive, Researchers Find

Osteoarthritis and aging

1. October 2, 2006 - Osteoarthritis linked to premature ageing
2. October 2, 2006 - Osteoarthritis May Be Sign Of Faster 'Biological Aging' - also here

Tuberculosis

1. October 2, 2006 - Tuberculosis Strain Subverts Immune Response
2. October 2, 2006 - New blood tests aid detection of latent tuberculosis

Evolution of bilateral symmetry in flowers

1. October 2, 2006 - Geneticists study symmetry in flowers
2. October 5, 2006 - How Did Bilaterally Symmetric Flowers Evolve From Radially Symmetric Ones? - also here
3. October 10, 2006 - Pollinators Power Flower Evolution

Advantages of DNA as genetic material

1. October 3, 2006 - Uncovering DNA's 'Sweet' Secret - also here

Australopithecus afarensis

1. October 3, 2006 - Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia - also here

Evolution of shorebird breeding systems

1. October 3, 2006 - Evolutionary Tug-of-war Decides Which Sex Provides Care - also here

Alzheimer's disease

1. October 3, 2006 - Chemical Found In Curry May Help Immune System Clear Amyloid Plaques Found In Alzheimer's Disease - also here, here
2. October 4, 2006 - Optics Tests For Early Alzheimer's Diagnosis Make Significant Advances - also here, here
3. October 5, 2006 - Marijuana's Key Ingredient Might Fight Alzheimer's
4. October 6, 2006 - Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer's - also here, here
5. October 6, 2006 - Red wine may protect against Alzheimer's
6. October 9, 2006 - Marijuana's Active Ingredient May Slow Progression Of Alzheimer's Disease

AIDS

1. October 3, 2006 - Investigators identify a new protective action for the powerful anti-HIV factor, APOBEC3G
2. October 3, 2006 - Experts Test Drugs That Fight NeuroAIDS - also here
3. October 5, 2006 - Teaching HIV a New Trick
4. October 6, 2006 - Roche AIDS drug shows benefits when combined

Avian flu

1. October 3, 2006 - GPS New Weapon in Fight against Avian Flu
2. October 4, 2006 - Bird flu vaccine shows good results in early trial
3. October 4, 2006 - Baxter says bird flu vaccine safe in early trial
4. October 4, 2006 - Molecule blocks flu infection, U.S. researchers say
5. October 5, 2006 - China reports second bird flu outbreak in a week
6. October 6, 2006 - New Drug Blocks Influenza, Including Bird Flu Virus
7. October 8, 2006 - Final tests confirm bird flu strain in Montana: USDA

Myosin motor protein

1. October 3, 2006 - Tidy motor protein folds away when the job is done

'Protecting virus' anti-virals

1. October 3, 2006 - Treatment 'to neutralise all flu'
2. October 5, 2006 - 'Protecting Virus' Offers Instant Flu Protection And Converts Flu Infections Into Their Own Vaccines - also here

Brain-stomach interaction in overeating

1. October 3, 2006 - Study Offers New Clues To Brain-stomach Interaction In Overeating - also here
2. October 3, 2006 - Overeating 'like drug addiction'
3. October 4, 2006 - Brain's unlikely trigger to overeat

Failure of anti-obesity drugs

1. October 3, 2006 - Another promising obesity drug bites the dust
2. October 5, 2006 - Promising Antiobesity Drug Fails To Produce Clinically Meaningful Weight Loss - also here, here

Appropriate targets for LDL cholesterol reduction

1. October 3, 2006 - How Low Should We Go? Researchers Find No Clear Evidence For Ultra-low Cholesterol Targets - also here

Appetite regulation

1. October 4, 2006 - Food Or Its Expectation Sparks Brain's Hunger Centers - also here, here

Diabetes

1. October 4, 2006 - Power of diabetes 'cure' fades over long term

Egg fertilization

1. October 4, 2006 - Cracking The Egg: Unraveling Our First Transitions - also here

Amnesia

1. October 4, 2006 - Scientists Debate The Neurobiological Underpinnings Of Amnesia - also here

Rapid genome sequencing

1. October 4, 2006 - $10 million prize aims to inspire gene race
2. October 5, 2006 - $10 million prize for fast genome sequencing
3. October 5, 2006 - $10 Million Prize Set Up for Speedy DNA Decoding

Reshuffling of plant genomes

1. October 4, 2006 - Genome Archaeology Illuminates The Genetic Engineering Debate - also here

Stem cells

1. October 4, 2006 - Stem Cell Technique To Arrest Urinary Incontinence - also here
2. October 6, 2006 - Key Regulator For Skin Stem Cells Identified

Regulation of emotional response

1. October 4, 2006 - Serotonin Receptor: A Rheostat In Brain For Emotion That May Be Linked To Depression - also here

Emotions and decision making

1. October 5, 2006 - Sense of justice discovered in the brain
2. October 5, 2006 - Selfish Impulse Set Free by Magnetic Pulse to Brain
3. October 5, 2006 - Brain blast squelches the desire to punish
4. October 5, 2006 - Shocking Makes the Brain More Selfish
5. October 5, 2006 - Brain's Selfishness Spot Revealed
6. October 5, 2006 - Study Spots the Brain's Selfishness 'Off-Switch' - also here
7. October 6, 2006 - Brain region may override economic self-interest
8. October 7, 2006 - Why say no to free money? It's neuro-economics, stupid
9. October 7, 2006 - Three ways science tells us that we're not as rational as we think

Drug discovery

1. October 5, 2006 - U.S. launches program to better pinpoint drugs

Variation in rates of evolution

1. October 5, 2006 - When Genes Evolve, a Staccato Rhythm

West Nile virus

1. October 5, 2006 - Study Unveils How West Nile Virus Evades Immune Defenses, Points To Vaccine Development - also here

Mapping protein interactions

1. October 5, 2006 - Cutting-edge Methods For Analyzing Complex Molecular Interactions - also here

Misfolded proteins and neurodegenerative diseases

1. October 5, 2006 - Researchers Make Major Advancement in Lou Gehrig's Disease and FTD
2. October 6, 2006 - Misfolded Protein Clumps Found To Be Common To Dementia, ALS
3. October 6, 2006 - Key link discovered in dementia, ALS
4. October 8, 2006 - Researchers Find Protein Behind Lou Gehrig's Disease and Dementia

Allergy vaccine

1. October 5, 2006 - DNA allergy vaccine shows promise

Immune response evolution

1. October 5, 2006 - Tiny Tampa Bay Fish Key To Evolution Of Immune System - also here

CD8+ T-cells

1. October 6, 2006 - How White Blood Cells Cannibalize Virus-infected Cells - also here

Biological computer models of the brain

1. October 6, 2006 - Human Brain Region Functions Like Digital Computer

Timing of brain cell development

1. October 6, 2006 - Novel Pathway Regulates Timing Of Brain Cell Development - also here

Improved protein mass spectrometry

1. October 7, 2006 - New Technique Boosts Size Of Proteins That Can Be Analyzed - also here

Evolution of plant life cycles

1. October 8, 2006 - Hail To The Hornworts: New Plant Family Tree Sheds Light On Evolution Of Life Cycles

Evolution of multi-chambered hearts

1. October 8, 2006 - Hearts Or Tails? Genetics Of Multi-chambered Heart Evolution

Cell fusion

1. October 8, 2006 - Researchers Uncover Cell Fusion Mechanism

Extremophiles

1. October 8, 2006 - Life on the edge

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