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Biology of Tasting Salt

In 1932, plant geneticist Albert Blakeslee and DuPont chemist Arthur Fox determined that taste acuity was a Mendelian trait [MORE]

Automated Eye Scan for Diabetes-Related Lesions

University of Iowa researchers have tested two computerized image analyzer programs and found both comparable for accuracy to expert [MORE]

How Spiders Store their Silk-Making Proteins

Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, researchers at two German universities were able to unravel the process by which spiders [MORE]

Simulation Lab at GWU’s New School of Nursing

George Washington University has spun out a nursing school from its existing School of Medicine & Health Sciences, and located [MORE]

Micromasonry for Artificial Tissue Engineering

Micromasonry is the term researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have coined for encapsulating living [MORE]

Untangling Brain Pathways of Pretzel Syndrome

The mTOR pathway (named for the mammalian target of rapamycin), keys on a protein kinase that is involved in [MORE]

Smell Sensor for Cell Phones to Detect Airborne Toxins

Mimicking sensory cells in the human nose, Michael Sailor, professor of biochemistry at UC-San Diego, and engineers at a [MORE]

Air Pollution Induced Hypertension

Researchers at the University of Dusiburg-Essen in Germany recently reported on their study that links air pollution to hypertension. [MORE]

Metal Foam Mimics Bone

In making both orthopedic and dental implants, the weight-bearing strength of the material is crucial-it ought not be weaker [MORE]

RFID Interference Protocols

About a year ago, alarm surfaced over RFID active tags interfering with hospital equipment, such as infusion pumps.  Only one [MORE]

A Radioisotope Battery

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Jae Kwon, at the University of Missouri, has developed a radioisotope battery about the size [MORE]

The ICEMan Cometh- MD-ICEMAN

Anyone who has visited a seriously sick person in the hospital, or witnessed a major surgery can envision the [MORE]

Mayo-Scottsdale to Stop Taking Medicare Patients

Every hospital in the country is trying to figure out how to break even financially on its Medicare patients.  The [MORE]

Home Monitoring of Hypertension

Medical News Today recently posted a documercial for Omron Healthcare (a leading manufacturer of home blood pressure monitors, in Bannockburn, [MORE]

First Artificial Cellular Organelle

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) have taken lab-on-a-chip thinking to the next level; they have created a microfluidics [MORE]

Stress vs. Strikes

University of Warwick (UK) researcher Bernard Casey recently presenting his analysis showing that work-related stress accounted for more loss of [MORE]

Protein Biochips

Materials scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Germany have developed a thin hydrogel biochip that can [MORE]

Virtual Allergy Sufferer

Researchers in the School of Pharmacy at Keele University (Staffordshire, UK), have created a virtual allergy sufferer that students can [MORE]

“Sentinal” Microbes

Mark Gerstein, a molecular biologist at Yale, reported in the Jan. 19-26, 2009 issue of Proceedings of the National Academies [MORE]

Smoking Cessation

A recent study of smoking cessation in the UK mentioned that smoking was both the leading cause of preventable illness [MORE]