Posted by Umar on March 18, 2011 ·
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. At a time when earthquakes are on everyone’s mind, a new study indicates that there may be help in predicting earthquakes.
Underground quartz deposits worldwide may be behind earthquakes, mountain building and other continental tectonics, a discovery that may aid in predicting tremblers, [...]
Posted by Umar on March 15, 2011 ·
A new study that took place a while ago regarding Tumor growth now suggests that combining two experimental anticancer peptide agents might simultaneously block formation of new tumor blood vessels while also inhibiting the growth of tumor cells.
Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center said that this early test of the two agents in a breast cancer model suggests that [...]
Posted by Umar on March 14, 2011 ·
At Monash University, scientists have discovered further details about male puberty and how it begins. These details are centered on a protein called SMAD3 and the rate at which it is produced.
Researchers, Associate Professor Kate Loveland and Dr. Catherine Itman from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences have discovered through laboratory testing that half as much SMAD3 protein results [...]
Posted by Umar on March 8, 2011 ·
It has been quite a while that the researchers at University of Maryland were allowed to talk about their work identifying the anthrax strain used in the 2001 deadly letter attacks. In a recent report it’s been told that they now have the other key members of the high-powered science team have published the first account of the pioneering work, which launched the new field of “microbial [...]
Posted by Umar on March 8, 2011 ·
The no-hiding theorem says that if any physical process leads to bleaching of quantum information from the original system, then it must reside in the rest of the Universe with no information being hidden in the correlation between these two subsystems. A new research was conducted where scientists were able to confirm Quantum no-hiding theorem experiment for the first time ever.
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Posted by Umar on March 7, 2011 ·
Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide through mitosis and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types or can self renew to produce more stem cells. Researchers from NorthWestern University for the first time have transformed a human embryonic stem cell into a critical type of neuron that dies early in Alzheimer’s disease and is a major cause [...]
Posted by Umar on February 22, 2011 ·
In a new study, US scientists suggest that people who have oral sex with 5 or more partners during their lifetime have a much greater chance of having throat cancer and they suspect the cause is a well known strain of the Human papillomavirus (HPV) that is linked to a number of anogenital cancers. US scientists have said there is strong evidence linking oral sex to cancer, and urged more study of how [...]