Volume 6, Number 15 April 9, 2007

Physical sciences and technology Carbon nanotubes Observations of individual photons Water on Mars Nanotechnology Superconductors and dark energy Global warming Climate change report Solar cells Dark matter and black holes Quantum tunnelling Wolf-Rayet supernova Computer vision Earth's magnetic field Laser-targeted SETI Recycling material from dead stars Detection of exotic particles in cosmic ray debris Magnetars Lab-on-a-chip Controlled fusion Optoelectronics Imaging Earth's internal structure Robotics Life sciences Early modern humans Computer simulation of ocean ecosystems Proteomics Brain encoding of information Computer simulation of human vision Social learning and memory Oxytocin Brain-imaging studies Selective erasure of memories Geometry of viruses Gregarious genes Control of neural activity with light Natural vs. sexual selection T cells Regulation of long-term memory Cancer biology Religiosity and genetics Bacterial communication Cellular energy production under low-oxygen conditions Health and medicine Stem cells Avian flu Regeneration of bone tissue Genetics of addiction breaking Cancer Multiple sclerosis The immune system and serotonin production Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's disease Telomere length, diabetes, and heart disease Melatonin production Aging and glycation Hypertension Antibiotics Diabetes Insulin from plants AIDS Autism Digestion and metabolism of fats Effects of lead on learning and memory Glucose and brain cell death Metabolic syndrome and cancer Immune system response to infectious disease Effects of nicotine on learning and memory Lack of efficacy of dieting Caloric restriction, aging, and longevity Glucose and brain cell death Flavonoids and cancer Therapy-induced TGF-β and metastasis Hepatitis C superinfection Tuberculosis Allergies and autoimmune diseases Statins and sepsis Nanoparticle drug delivery for cancer Leptin Leptin and cancer

Physical sciences and technology

Carbon nanotubes

1. April 2, 2007 - Linear Arrays Of Nanotubes Offer Path To High-performance Electronics
2. April 6, 2007 - Nanotube-Tipped Probe Considered Vital to Cell Treatment

Observations of individual photons

1. April 2, 2007 - Life And Death Of A Photon 'Filmed' For The First Time

Water on Mars

1. April 2, 2007 - The MARSIS radar estimates the volume of water in the south pole of Mars

Nanotechnology

1. April 2, 2007 - Researchers Synthesize Brightest Fluorescent Particles Ever
2. April 5, 2007 - Golden Nano-Dumbbells
3. April 5, 2007 - Nano-generator could power tiny devices
4. April 6, 2007 - Nanowires Turn Vibrations into Electricity
5. April 6, 2007 - Nanogenerator Provides Continuous Power By Harvesting Energy From The Environment - also here, here
6. April 7, 2007 - Nanometer-Scale Generator Demonstrated
7. April 8, 2007 - Scientists Assemble Single Atoms Into Predefined Nanostructures

Superconductors and dark energy

1. April 3, 2007 - Superconductors inspire quantum test for dark energy

Global warming

1. April 4, 2007 - Winter Arctic sea ice near record low
2. April 4, 2007 - NASA Finds Arctic Replenished Very Little Thick Sea Ice In 2005 - also here
3. April 5, 2007 - Arctic Sea Ice Narrowly Missed Record Low In Winter 2007 - also here, here
4. April 5, 2007 - Return of the dust bowl?
5. April 5, 2007 - Serious drought may strike western US
6. April 5, 2007 - Dust Bowl 2.0: Is the Southwest Drying Up?
7. April 5, 2007 - Climate change threatens new dust bowl in Southwest
8. April 5, 2007 - Climate change threatens new dust bowl in Southwest - also here, here
9. April 5, 2007 - Climate change threatens world natural wonders: WWF
10. April 6, 2007 - Permanent drought predicted for Southwest
11. April 6, 2007 - Global Warming Threatens Natural Wonders - also here, here, here, here

Climate change report

1. April 3, 2007 - Tropical losers, northern winners from warming? - also here
2. April 4, 2007 - Key report to say global warming already happening
3. April 5, 2007 - U.N. experts near accord on bleak climate warning
4. April 5, 2007 - Accord is near on bleak climate warning
5. April 5, 2007 - U.N. Draft Cites Humans in Current Effects of Climate Shift
6. April 5, 2007 - UN experts near agreement on bleak climate warning - also here
7. April 6, 2007 - Climate predictions grim, but no surprise
8. April 6, 2007 - Worse to Come From Global Warming
9. April 6, 2007 - Experts agree bleak warning on climate
10. April 6, 2007 - Experts warn warming will damage society
11. April 6, 2007 - Bleakest warning issued on climate
12. April 6, 2007 - Stark climate change warning
13. April 6, 2007 - Scientists issue bleak forecast for warming world
14. April 6, 2007 - Climate change is here now, says major report
15. April 6, 2007 - Billions face climate change risk
16. April 6, 2007 - Wrangling delays climate report
17. April 6, 2007 - Stark picture of a warming world
18. April 6, 2007 - Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics
19. April 6, 2007 - Effects of climate change tallied up
20. April 6, 2007 - Water Shortages Predicted in Global Warming Report - also here
21. April 8, 2007 - Experts Weigh In On New Climate Change Report
22. April 9, 2007 - Scientists Get Last Say in Climate Study

Solar cells

1. April 3, 2007 - New Technology For Manufacturing Flexible Solar Cells
2. April 6, 2007 - Taking Nature's Cue For Cheaper Solar Power - also here

Dark matter and black holes

1. April 3, 2007 - Hey, WIMPs: Beware of Dwarf

Quantum tunnelling

1. April 4, 2007 - Electrons caught tunnelling out of atoms
2. April 4, 2007 - Escape from the Nucleus: Ionization via Quantum Tunneling Observed
3. April 4, 2007 - Electron tunnelling seen in real time
4. April 5, 2007 - Electron Tunneling in Atoms Has Now Been Observed in Real Time
5. April 12, 2007 - Electrons Caught in the Act of Tunnelling - also here, here

Wolf-Rayet supernova

1. April 4, 2007 - Surprising Star Explosion Upsets Theory
2. April 5, 2007 - Supernova Imposter Goes Supernova - also here, here
3. April 6, 2007 - Star's odd double explosion hints at antimatter trigger

Computer vision

1. April 4, 2007 - Easy on the eyes

Earth's magnetic field

1. April 5, 2007 - Earth's magnetic field grew strong at a young age
2. April 5, 2007 - 3.2 Billion-year-old Surprise: Earth Had Strong Magnetic Field - also here, here

Laser-targeted SETI

1. April 5, 2007 - Look Out for Alien Lasers

Recycling material from dead stars

1. April 5, 2007 - Dust clouds in cosmic cycle - also here, here
2. April 9, 2007 - New Thinking on the Death of Sun-Like Stars

Detection of exotic particles in cosmic ray debris

1. April 5, 2007 - Searching for Exotic Particles from Cosmic-Ray Collisions

Magnetars

1. April 6, 2007 - Magnetar Does A Gigantic Stellar 'Hiccup' - also here

Lab-on-a-chip

1. April 6, 2007 - No Foolin' -- 'Lab on a Chip' Works!

Controlled fusion

1. April 6, 2007 - Twisted Flux Tubes Expel 'Wrong-Way' Ions

Optoelectronics

1. April 6, 2007 - Buffer boosts optical integration

Imaging Earth's internal structure

1. April 7, 2007 - High-resolution images herald new era in Earth sciences - also here, here, here

Robotics

1. April 7, 2007 - Air & Light-Driven Robotic Device More Precise Than Human Hand - also here

Life sciences

Early modern humans

1. April 2, 2007 - Interspecies Tryst While out of Africa?
2. April 2, 2007 - Ancient human unearthed in China
3. April 3, 2007 - Out of Africa, then romping into China?
4. April 3, 2007 - China's Earliest Modern Human

Computer simulation of ocean ecosystems

1. April 2, 2007 - Ocean Model Precisely Mimics Microbes' Life Cycles

Proteomics

1. April 2, 2007 - Titanium Dioxide -- It Slices, It Dices ... - also here, here

Brain encoding of information

1. April 2, 2007 - Leading Theory Of Perception Called Into Question - also here

Computer simulation of human vision

1. April 3, 2007 - Visual-cortex simulator sees animals as humans do
2. April 3, 2007 - Computer Model Behaves Like Humans On Visual Categorization Task

Social learning and memory

1. April 3, 2007 - How we remember each other
2. April 3, 2007 - Scientists study social memory formation
3. April 4, 2007 - Where Social Memories Form In The Brain

Oxytocin

1. April 4, 2007 - Ecstasy really does unleash the love hormone
2. April 5, 2007 - To recognize their friends, mice use their amygdalas

Brain-imaging studies

1. April 4, 2007 - Poor brains light up with small cash rewards
2. April 4, 2007 - A Brain Image of a Microeconomic Theory
3. April 4, 2007 - Rich Brain, Poor Brain
4. April 4, 2007 - Study identifies 'braking' mechanism in the brain - also here, here
5. April 5, 2007 - Measuring The Brain's 'Rich Switch' - also here

Selective erasure of memories

1. April 4, 2007 - Selective Amnesia: How A Traumatic Memory Can Be Wiped Out - also here

Geometry of viruses

1. April 4, 2007 - Mathematician Probes Geometric Route To Combat Viruses - also here

Gregarious genes

1. April 5, 2007 - In Young Mice, Gregariousness Seems To Reside In The Genes - also here

Control of neural activity with light

1. April 5, 2007 - Scientists Directly Control Brain Cell Activity With Light - also here, here

Natural vs. sexual selection

1. April 5, 2007 - More flight than fancy? - also here, here, here, here

T cells

1. April 6, 2007 - New Regulatory Mechanism For Critical Protein Signaling Domain Identified - also here, here

Regulation of long-term memory

1. April 6, 2007 - Genetic Switch Can Control Memory
2. April 6, 2007 - Mutation improves memory, may lead to memory-enhancing pill - also here

Cancer biology

1. April 6, 2007 - Discovery In Plants Suggests Entirely New Approach To Treating Human Cancers - also here, here
2. April 6, 2007 - New Connection Between Cancer and Sugars - also here

Religiosity and genetics

1. April 6, 2007 - Good Behavior, Religiousness May Be Genetic

Bacterial communication

1. April 6, 2007 - Bacteria Communication: Counting Heads or Measuring Space? - also here

Cellular energy production under low-oxygen conditions

1. April 8, 2007 - Need Oxygen? Cells Know How To Spend And Save - also here

Health and medicine

Stem cells

1. April 2, 2007 - Human heart tissue grown from stem cells
2. April 2, 2007 - Heart valve grown from stem cells
3. April 2, 2007 - British researchers grow heart tissue from stem cells
4. April 5, 2007 - 'In 10 years we will be able to grow a heart'
5. April 6, 2007 - Isolation Of Stem Cells May Lead To A Treatment For Hearing Loss - also here, here

Avian flu

1. April 2, 2007 - Bird flu may spread from Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria: FAO
2. April 3, 2007 - WHO probes into siblings with bird flu in Egypt
3. April 3, 2007 - No human transmission in Egypt bird flu case: WHO
4. April 3, 2007 - Indonesian woman dies of bird flu: health ministry
5. April 3, 2007 - New Study Finds Drug-Resistant Flu Type
6. April 4, 2007 - New study tracks the spread of bird flu between farms
7. April 5, 2007 - Indonesia, Egypt to develop bird flu vaccine
8. April 6, 2007 - New flu strains 'resisting drugs'
9. April 6, 2007 - Man from Indonesia's Central Java dies of bird flu
10. April 6, 2007 - Indonesia reports another bird flu death

Regeneration of bone tissue

1. April 2, 2007 - Intelligent Materials To Regenerate Bone Tissue

Genetics of addiction breaking

1. April 2, 2007 - Genes Identified That Might Help Some People Abstain From Smoking
2. April 2, 2007 - Genes found for successful smoking cessation

Cancer

1. April 2, 2007 - Targeting Tumors The Natural Way
2. April 3, 2007 - Gender Linked To Development Of Skin Cancer
3. April 3, 2007 - Fat Overrides Effects Of Vitamin C - also here, here
4. April 3, 2007 - With rat genome as guide, human breast cancer risk refined
5. April 3, 2007 - Red meat 'ups breast cancer risk'
6. April 4, 2007 - Combined treatment ups survival of breast cancer
7. April 4, 2007 - PSA is poor predictor of lethal prostate cancer - also here
8. April 4, 2007 - Study: Red meat raises breast cancer risk
9. April 4, 2007 - Major clinical breast cancer study begins
10. April 5, 2007 - Bladder Cancer Linked To Androgens And Androgen Receptor In Mice
11. April 6, 2007 - Male breast cancer worse for blacks than whites
12. April 6, 2007 - Aspirin Discovery May Improve Cancer Treatments - also here
13. April 6, 2007 - Combining Therapies Can Improve Survival For Early-stage Breast Cancer Patients - also here
14. April 7, 2007 - Major Advance In Treatment Of Multiple Myeloma - also here, here
15. April 8, 2007 - Red Meat Linked To Breast Cancer
16. April 8, 2007 - Fat 'counters vitamin C benefits'

Multiple sclerosis

1. April 2, 2007 - Cannabis could hold the key to ending multiple sclerosis misery

The immune system and serotonin production

1. April 2, 2007 - Getting dirty may lift your mood

Parkinson's disease

1. April 3, 2007 - Drug Reduces Daily 'Off' Time For Parkinson Patients - also here
2. April 5, 2007 - Parkinson's Disease: Nicotine Could Help; Pesticides Harm - also here

Alzheimer's disease

1. April 3, 2007 - Can An Omega-3 Fatty Acid Slow The Progression Of Alzheimer's Disease?

Telomere length, diabetes, and heart disease

1. April 3, 2007 - New Genetic Biomarkers Could Predict Coronary Heart Disease - also here

Melatonin production

1. April 3, 2007 - New Insight Into Melatonin Production - also here

Aging and glycation

1. April 3, 2007 - Novel Strategies For Healthy Aging

Hypertension

1. April 3, 2007 - Lowering Blood Pressure Improves Diastolic Dysfunction In Hypertensive Patients

Antibiotics

1. April 4, 2007 - Weak drug combos find new use
2. April 5, 2007 - Drug-resistant bacteria can be controlled

Diabetes

1. April 4, 2007 - Adding new diabetes drug may aid glycemic control
2. April 4, 2007 - Insulin Receptors Play A Critical Role In Promoting Islet Growth - also here
3. April 4, 2007 - New Direction For Pancreas Cell Regeneration - also here, here
4. April 4, 2007 - Blood sugar's manufacture limited by building blocks' supply - also here, here
5. April 5, 2007 - Pancreatic Cells Show Variable Plasticity

Insulin from plants

1. April 4, 2007 - Firm in GM insulin breakthrough

AIDS

1. April 4, 2007 - AIDS drug Prezista performs well in new study
2. April 4, 2007 - Rabies-based Vaccine Could Be Effective Against HIV - also here, here

Autism

1. April 4, 2007 - Combination Of Early Detection, Timely Treatment Hold Promise For Autism

Digestion and metabolism of fats

1. April 4, 2007 - New Molecule Involved In The Body's Processing Of Dietary Fat Identified - also here

Effects of lead on learning and memory

1. April 4, 2007 - How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits - also here

Glucose and brain cell death

1. April 4, 2007 - Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Sugar?
2. April 5, 2007 - Glucose Triggers Brain Cell Death In Rats After Hypoglycemic Coma - also here

Metabolic syndrome and cancer

1. April 5, 2007 - Metabolic syndrome tied to cancer in black men

Immune system response to infectious disease

1. April 5, 2007 - Researchers Identify Key Protein In Immune Response To Malaria And TB

Effects of nicotine on learning and memory

1. April 5, 2007 - Nicotine Enhances Learning And Memory: Could This Lead To New Alzheimer's Medications? - also here, here

Lack of efficacy of dieting

1. April 5, 2007 - Dieting Does Not Work, Researchers Report - also here

Caloric restriction, aging, and longevity

1. April 5, 2007 - It's Never Too Late To Get It Back! Aging Interrupted

Flavonoids and cancer

1. April 5, 2007 - Flavonoids: Now Chemists Can Synthesize This Anti-cancer Agent - also here, here

Therapy-induced TGF-β and metastasis

1. April 5, 2007 - Treatment may fuel cancer's spread, study finds
2. April 6, 2007 - Tumors Stopped From Spreading In Mice - also here
3. April 6, 2007 - Tumors stopped from spreading to new sites

Hepatitis C superinfection

1. April 5, 2007 - Hepatitis C virus blocks 'superinfection'

Tuberculosis

1. April 5, 2007 - New Tuberculosis Strain in South Africa Causing Concern - also here

Allergies and autoimmune diseases

1. April 6, 2007 - Connection Between Allergic Diseases And Autoimmune Diseases - also here, here

Statins and sepsis

1. April 6, 2007 - Statins Linked To Lower Risk Of Infection - also here

Nanoparticle drug delivery for cancer

1. April 6, 2007 - Why Nanocylinders Deliver Medicine Better Than Nanospheres - also here

Leptin

1. April 7, 2007 - Leptin Gives Itself Some Negative Feedback

Leptin and cancer

1. April 7, 2007 - Fat hormone 'boosts colon cancer'

Copyright © 2007 by Charles Daney, All Rights Reserved