http://en.redtram.com/ eurekalert.org Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:16:57 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 5821 | Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034 http://en.redtram.com/go/232942103/top100/ 232942103 In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will double and spending on diabetes will triple, rising from $113 billion to $336 billion. This will add to the existing strains on an overburdened health care system. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:33 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232942103/top100/ 5821 | Tough yet stiff deer antler is materials scientist's dream http://en.redtram.com/go/232942088/top100/ 232942088 John Currey from York University explains that it is almost impossible to make materials that are tough yet stiff: stiff materials tend to break easily and cannot absorb impacts. But not so dry deer antlers. Surviving impacts that are six Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:20 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232942088/top100/ 5821 | Wide heads give hammerheads exceptional stereo view http://en.redtram.com/go/232942074/top100/ 232942074 Why hammerhead sharks have their distinctively shaped heads has puzzled scientists for generations, but now Michelle McComb and Stephen Kajiura from Florida Atlantic University and Timothy Tricas from the University of Hawaii at Manoa have discovered that hammerheads' wide heads Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:13 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232942074/top100/ 5821 | School closure could reduce swine flu transmission by 21 percent http://en.redtram.com/go/232942030/top100/ 232942030 A survey carried out in eight European countries has shown that closing schools in the event of an infectious disease pandemic could have a significant role in reducing illness transmission. Researchers writing in the open-access journal BMC Infectious Diseases compared Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:15:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232942030/top100/ 5821 | Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species http://en.redtram.com/go/232942007/top100/ 232942007 Ecologists have worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate estimates of bird species' populations. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:15:42 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232942007/top100/ 55832 | Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics http://en.redtram.com/go/232712456/top100/ 232712456 Purdue University) A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:53:19 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232712456/top100/ 94231 | Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA http://en.redtram.com/go/232636160/top100/ 232636160 Institute of Physics) Two prototype devices have been developed: one for efficient disinfection of healthy skin (e.g. hands and feet) in hospitals and public spaces where bacteria can pose a lethal threat; and another to shoot bacteria-killing agents into infested Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:03:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232636160/top100/ 5821 | Physician-scientist proves stem cells heal lungs of newborn animals http://en.redtram.com/go/232632386/top100/ 232632386 An international team led by Dr. Bernard Thébaud, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Clinical Scholar, demonstrates that stem cells protect and repair the lungs of newborn rats.The study finds that rats treated with stem cells ran twice as far, Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:50:23 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232632386/top100/ 5821 | Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug http://en.redtram.com/go/232632309/top100/ 232632309 The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. That much is known. Very little, however, is Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:50:02 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232632309/top100/ 5821 | Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes http://en.redtram.com/go/232632266/top100/ 232632266 Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of "On the Origin of Species" debate continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New research finds sexual selection to greatly enlarge the Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:49:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232632266/top100/ 5821 | Building real security with virtual worlds http://en.redtram.com/go/232632219/top100/ 232632219 Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of possible military and policy actions, say University of Maryland Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:49:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232632219/top100/ 5821 | First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected http://en.redtram.com/go/232632167/top100/ 232632167 In three papers published back-to-back today in Science, scientists in a partnership between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Centre de Regulacio Genòmica in Barcelona, Spain, provide the first comprehensive picture of a minimal cell, based Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:49:42 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232632167/top100/ 5821 | Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets http://en.redtram.com/go/232632132/top100/ 232632132 Whitehead researchers have developed a new approach for genetics in human cells and used this technique to identify specific genes and proteins required for pathogens. With the ability to generate knockout cells for most human genes, the authors were able Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:49:38 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/232632132/top100/