Volume 6, Number 2 January 8, 2007

Physical sciences and technology Nanotechnology Global warming Supernovae Pulsars Methane on Titan Measurement of gravitational constant "Prompt" Type Ia supernovae Black holes Star formation cycles in dwarf galaxies Dark matter Paleoclimatology Visible light metamaterials Extrasolar asteroid belt Unexpected size of M31 Life sciences Zebrafish and organ development Brain-imaging studies Brain development Flu virus epitopes Dangerous DNA sequences Glutamate and synapses Food deprivation and brain activity Social congnition in dogs Memory formation MicroRNA Stem cells and cancer Hydrogen peroxide and life Health and medicine Cancer Cancer vaccines Bacterial drug resistance Obesity and cancer Alzheimer's disease Parkinson's disease AIDS Avian flu Gender and hypertension Estrogen and appetite Stem cells Diabetes Clearing fats from the bloodstream Cholesterol and heart attack risk Coenzyme Q10

Nanotechnology

1. January 2, 2007 - Easing Concerns About The Toxicity Of Diamond Nanoparticles
2. January 4, 2007 - Nanoscale Cubes And Spheres: Uniform Porous Silicon Oxide Nano-objects Formed By Controlled Disassembly Of A Lattice Structure
3. January 4, 2007 - Cheaper LEDs From Breakthrough In Zinc Oxide Nanowire Research - also here

Global warming

1. January 3, 2007 - Climate change faster in Australia - also here
2. January 3, 2007 - Himalaya's receding glaciers suffer neglect
3. January 4, 2007 - 2007 to be 'warmest on record'
4. January 4, 2007 - 2007 predicted to be world's warmest year
5. January 4, 2007 - 2007 could be warmest year yet: British experts
6. January 4, 2007 - Scientists Say 2007 May Be Warmest Yet - also here
7. January 5, 2007 - 2007 To Be Warmest Year Yet, Say UK Forecasters

Supernovae

1. January 3, 2007 - Brightest supernova discovery hints at stellar collision

Pulsars

1. January 3, 2007 - Swirly Shock Waves May Spin Pulsars like a Top
2. January 7, 2007 - Computer Scientists Discover New Way To Spin Up Pulsars

Methane on Titan

1. January 3, 2007 - Saturn's Moon Titan a World of Rivers and Lakes
2. January 3, 2007 - Titan's Polar Surface Dotted with Lakes of Methane
3. January 4, 2007 - Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Titan
4. January 4, 2007 - 'Proof' of methane lakes on Titan
5. January 4, 2007 - Lost lakes of Titan are found
6. January 4, 2007 - Below Haze, Saturn's Biggest Moon Has Lakes
7. January 5, 2007 - Lakes of methane spotted on Titan

Measurement of gravitational constant

1. January 4, 2007 - Free-Falling Atoms Offer New Test of Gravity's Strength
2. January 13, 2007 - Gravity gets a quantum boost

"Prompt" Type Ia supernovae

1. January 4, 2007 - X-ray Evidence Supports Possible New Class Of Supernova
2. January 5, 2007 - Scientists Discover Stellar Bombs with Short Fuses
3. January 5, 2007 - Stellar Bang with a New Twist

Black holes

1. January 3, 2007 - Scientists Spot Black Hole in Unlikely Place
2. January 4, 2007 - Black Hole Boldly Goes Where No Black Hole Has Gone Before
3. January 4, 2007 - Black hole found in ancient lair
4. January 7, 2007 - Small Galaxy Packs Massive Black Hole
5. January 8, 2007 - Astronomers Detect Black Hole In Tiny 'Dwarf' Galaxy
6. January 9, 2007 - Tiny galaxy hosts huge black hole

Star formation cycles in dwarf galaxies

1. January 5, 2007 - Dying galaxy destined to be reborn

Dark matter

1. January 5, 2007 - Detecting Dark Matter No Longer a Massive Task
2. January 7, 2007 - Dark matter mapped in 3D for first time
3. January 7, 2007 - Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter
4. January 7, 2007 - Hubble makes 3D dark matter map
5. January 8, 2007 - Mapping the Invisible
6. January 8, 2007 - Hubble Maps The Cosmic Web Of 'Clumpy' Dark Matter In 3-D
7. January 8, 2007 - Dark-matter map points to galaxy formation
8. January 8, 2007 - The universe gives up its deepest secret
9. March 5, 2007 - The first 3-D map of the universe

Paleoclimatology

1. January 5, 2007 - A Bumpy Shift From Ice House To Greenhouse - also here
2. January 5, 2007 - Ancient global warming was jarring, not subtle, study finds

Visible light metamaterials

1. January 5, 2007 - Metamaterials found to work for visible light - also here

Extrasolar asteroid belt

1. January 6, 2007 - Evidence of Extrasolar Asteroid Belt

Unexpected size of M31

1. January 7, 2007 - Andromeda Galaxy Five Time Bigger Than Thought
2. January 8, 2007 - Vast halo extends galaxy's size
3. January 10, 2007 - Astronomers Discover An Enormous Halo Of Red Giant Stars Around Andromeda

Zebrafish and organ development

1. January 1, 2007 - Zebrafish Study Yield Novel Genes Critical In Organ Development

Brain-imaging studies

1. January 1, 2007 - Scan shows how brains plot future
2. January 2, 2007 - How the Brain "Sees" the Future
3. January 2, 2007 - Time past, time future intricately connected in brain
4. January 4, 2007 - Brain Scans Predict When People Will Buy Products - also here
5. January 4, 2007 - When Your Brain Goes Shopping
6. January 5, 2007 - This Is Your Brain on Shopping
7. January 5, 2007 - Brain Studies Reveal Mechanisms Of Voluntary Control Of Visual Attention - also here, here
8. January 7, 2007 - Imaging Pinpoints Brain Regions That 'See The Future' - also here, here
9. January 8, 2007 - Brain science shows which brands excite us but it doesn't mean we'll buy them

Brain development

1. January 2, 2007 - Regulatory Pathway In Brain Development Possible Basis For Malformations

Flu virus epitopes

1. January 2, 2007 - Researchers complete world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data
2. January 3, 2007 - New Details On How The Immune System Recognizes Influenza - also here here

Dangerous DNA sequences

1. January 3, 2007 - The DNA so dangerous it does not exist

Glutamate and synapses

1. January 3, 2007 - Bisexual Fruit Flies Show New Role For Neurochemical - also here

Food deprivation and brain activity

1. January 3, 2007 - How appetite-stimulating brain cells work overtime during fasting
2. January 3, 2007 - New Year, New Understanding of How Fasting Affects the Brain
3. January 4, 2007 - Brain triggers hunger during fasts

Social congnition in dogs

1. January 4, 2007 - Fido Can Place Your Face

Memory formation

1. January 5, 2007 - What Memories Are Made Of: Researcher Studies Plasticity Of Recall - also here

MicroRNA

1. January 6, 2007 - Renegade RNA: Clues To Cancer And Normal Growth - also here, here

Stem cells and cancer

1. January 7, 2007 - Cancer warning over stem cell therapies

Hydrogen peroxide and life

1. January 7, 2007 - Report Suggests Mars Microbes Overlooked - also here, here
2. January 8, 2007 - Did We 'Kill' Martian Microbes? New Analysis Of Viking Mission Points To Life On Mars
3. January 8, 2007 - Mars Mission Missed Microbes, Report Claims

Cancer

1. January 1, 2007 - Gene doubles breast cancer risk
2. January 1, 2007 - New Model To Aid Pancreatic Cancer Research
3. January 3, 2007 - Gene test predicts lung cancer relapse
4. January 3, 2007 - Diet seen to affect liver cancer risk
5. January 3, 2007 - Fast growing melanomas have distinct traits
6. January 3, 2007 - Berry Compound Thwarts Enzyme Linked To Cancer
7. January 3, 2007 - Poniard says to begin late-stage trial for lung cancer
8. January 4, 2007 - Gene Test May Help Lung Cancer Patients - also here, here
9. January 4, 2007 - Gene linked to childhood kidney cancer identified
10. January 4, 2007 - Risk Of Soft Tissue Sarcomas In Hereditary Retinoblastoma Survivors - also here
11. January 4, 2007 - Hybrid Molecule Causes Cancer Cells To Self-destruct - also here, here
12. January 4, 2007 - Men With No Sons More At Risk For Prostate Cancer, According To New Study - also here
13. January 5, 2007 - Herceptin does cut cancer deaths
14. January 5, 2007 - Researchers find new gene associated with Wilms tumor - also here, here, here, here, here

Cancer vaccines

1. January 2, 2007 - New Vaccine Stimulates Colorectal Cancer Patient's Immune Systems To Fight Cancerous Cells

Bacterial drug resistance

1. January 2, 2007 - How Bacteria Can Escape Destruction: Scientists Discover Mechanism Used To Pump Out Drugs

Obesity and cancer

1. January 3, 2007 - Body Composition May Be Key Player In Controlling Cancer Risks

Alzheimer's disease

1. January 3, 2007 - Cold Sore Virus Might Play Role In Alzheimer's - also here, here
2. January 3, 2007 - Can Fish Intake Predict Chances Of Developing Dementia?

Parkinson's disease

1. January 3, 2007 - Skin patch eases Parkinson's symptoms
2. January 3, 2007 - Drug Improves Tremors, Involuntary Movements In Parkinson Patients - also here, here

AIDS

1. January 3, 2007 - Rats Join Search for AIDS Drugs
2. January 7, 2007 - Drug-resistant HIV battled in a new way
3. January 7, 2007 - New HIV test may predict drug resistance - also here
4. January 7, 2007 - Researchers develop new HIV test
5. January 8, 2007 - New Assay Test Exposes Tiny Pockets of Drug-Resistant HIV in the Blood
6. January 9, 2007 - Researchers Hail New HIV/AIDS Test - also here

Avian flu

1. January 3, 2007 - Researcher Develops Avian Flu Vaccine For Poultry
2. January 4, 2007 - DNA Vaccine For H5N1 Avian Influenza Enters Human Trial - also here, here
3. January 4, 2007 - Avian Flu Virus Unlikely To Spread Through Water Systems - also here, here
4. January 5, 2007 - Dead bird in Hong Kong tests positive for H5N1 virus

Gender and hypertension

1. January 4, 2007 - Gender affects genes' influence on blood pressure

Estrogen and appetite

1. January 4, 2007 - Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way As The Hormone Leptin - also here

Stem cells

1. January 5, 2007 - Cancer-killing Invention Also Harvests Stem Cells
2. January 7, 2007 - 'Ethical' stem cells that arrive with baby
3. January 7, 2007 - 'New stem cell source' discovered
4. January 7, 2007 - New Source of Stem Cells: Amniotic Fluid
5. January 7, 2007 - Stem cells derived from amniotic fluid show great promise in the lab
6. January 8, 2007 - Scientists Discover New, Readily Available Source Of Stem Cells
7. January 8, 2007 - Amniotic Fluid Yields Stem Cells
8. January 8, 2007 - Stem Cells Discovered in Amniotic Fluid - also here, here
9. January 8, 2007 - Human stem cells found in amniotic fluid
10. January 8, 2007 - Stem cells in amniotic fluid show promise
11. January 9, 2007 - Stem Cells Found in Amniotic Fluid

Diabetes

1. January 5, 2007 - Glucose Levels Trigger Compensation For Type 2 Diabetics - also here

Clearing fats from the bloodstream

1. January 5, 2007 - Sugars In Liver Found To Clear Fats From The Bloodstream - also here

Cholesterol and heart attack risk

1. January 5, 2007 - Study Links Form of 'Bad' Cholesterol with Heart Attack Risk

Coenzyme Q10

1. January 7, 2007 - Coenzyme Q10 benefits people with heart failure

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