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Cell Phone Turns Into Mobile Medical Lab

Sunday, February 8th, 2009 - 14:13:07 - Sarah Gingichashvili

When Debbie Gordon and her fellow health-care mission workers go to Belize, there's just so much they can do to treat people in the remote village of...

Baffling the Body into Accepting Transplants

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 12:05:38 - Anuradha Menon

An unexpected discovery made by a Sydney scientist has potential to alter the body's response to anything it perceives as not ‘self’, such as a...

Do-it-Yourself Biology

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 - 12:08:19 - Anuradha Menon

Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT...

Why Do Babies Have Blue Eyes?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Why is it that most babies are born with blue eyes, regardless of the eye color of their parents? The answer to this lies in...

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New Type of Laser Discovered

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 - 18:04:00 - Ehud Rattner

A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered an entirely new mechanism for making common electronic materials emit laser beams. The finding...

Prostate Cancer & Cough Medicine Ingredient

Sunday, December 21st, 2008 - 13:57:42 - Ehud Rattner

A study published December 18 in the December issue of the European medical journal Anticancer Research demonstrates that an ingredient used in a...

Next Generation Microscopy

Friday, December 19th, 2008 - 10:07:20 - Anuradha Menon

Microscopes have revolutionized the practice of science, especially in the fields of biology and medicine. Just a few hundred years ago, gaining the...

Summer Brings Bacterial Infections

Sunday, December 7th, 2008 - 11:56:16 - Ehud Rattner

In the same way that winter is commonly known to be the "flu season," a new study suggests that the dog days of summer may well be the "bacterial...

Siemens Anti-Bleeding Cuff for the Military
Friday, November 7th, 2008 - Sarah Gingichashvili
The German conglomerate Siemens announced its plans to develop a prototype of a unique ultrasound device capable of limiting...