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Newly modified nanoparticle opens window on future gene editing technologiesAmes IA (SPX) May 29, 2012 The scientific and technological literature is abuzz with nanotechnology and its manufacturing and medical applications. But it is in an area with a less glitzy aura-plant sciences-where nanotechnology advancements are contributing dramatically to agriculture. Researchers at Iowa State University have now demonstrated the ability to deliver proteins and DNA into plant cells, simultaneously. This is important because it now opens up opportunities for more sophisticated and targeted plant genome edi ... read more |
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 Tongue Analysis Software Developed at MU Uses Ancient Chinese Medicine to Warn of Disease For 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body. In this system, the appearance of the tongue is one of the me ... more | .. |
 Engineered microvessels provide a 3D test bed for human diseases Mice and monkeys don't develop diseases in the same way that humans do. Nevertheless, after medical researchers have studied human cells in a Petri dish, they have little choice but to move on to st ... more | .. |
 Earlier detection of bone loss may be in future Are your bones getting stronger or weaker? Right now, it's hard to know. Scientists at Arizona State University and NASA are taking on this medical challenge by developing and applying a technique t ... more | .. |
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  Nuisance seaweed found to produce compounds with biomedical potential A seaweed considered a threat to the healthy growth of coral reefs in Hawaii may possess the ability to produce substances that could one day treat human diseases, a new study led by scientists at S ... more | .. |
  DLR presents innovations in robotics at AUTOMATICA 2012 The Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC) at the German Aerospace Center is exhibiting at AUTOMATICA, the leading international exhibition for automation and mechatronics, which is being held in Mu ... more | .. |
  City's population is counted from space The population of an entire city has been estimated from space to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to b ... more |
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North Korea to soon unveil 'next-stage' nuclear plans, Kim says
Greenland dispute is 'wake-up call' for Europe: Macron
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  New discoveries about severe malaria Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new knowledge related to host-parasite interactio ... more | .. |
  Pakistani jailed for 33 years over bin Laden hunt A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was Wednesday sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason, sparking a warning from US senators over American aid. ... more | .. |
  Stanford bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA Sometimes, remembering and forgetting are hard to do. "It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it," said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, of his latest research, a method for rep ... more | .. |
  North Korea releases Chinese fishermen North Korea has released 28 Chinese fishermen along with their three vessels detained since May 8, China's state run news agency Xinhua reported. ... more |
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  Outside View: America's future An 18th-century Scottish-born British lawyer and writer forewarned the disease eventually would strike. More than two centuries ago, he even explained the sequence by which it would occur. While his warning wasn't specific to the United States, today we see signs it is spreading quickly within the Western world. ... more | .. |
  Iraq anti-terror officer, family shot dead An Iraqi anti-terror officer, his wife and three children have been shot dead by gunmen in north Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Baghdad pet market bombs kill five: officials Three near-simultaneous bomb blasts at a pet market in east Baghdad killed five people on Friday, officials said, just hours after an attack in the city's southeast left five dead. ... more | .. |
  Farewell to the Sun The crew of the French-Italian Concordia research base in the Antarctic saw their last rays of Sun for over four months last weekend. Near the South Pole, the outpost will now continue its research ... more |
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NASA advances space based tracking of marine debris
Trump-era trade stress leads Western powers to China
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 Ultrasensitive biosensor promising for medical diagnostics Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and "personalized medicine" tailored to the specific biochemistry of individua ... more | .. |
  Trapped China miner found after 17 days: state media A miner who was buried underground for 17 days following a colliery flood in northeast China was found alive on Saturday, state media said. ... more | .. |
  Eclipsall Awarded Contract to Supply Solar Panels to Ugandan Government Eclipsall has announced that the company has entered into an agreement to supply 3MW of solar panels to the Government of Uganda, Ministry of Health. The panels will be used for planned solar ... more | .. |
  Astronaut Launches into Texas Tech Doctorate Program The College of Education at Texas Tech announced a NASA astronaut has been accepted to its doctoral program in education. Joseph Acaba launched May 14 for a four-month tour of duty aboard the Russia ... more |
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  China wrests back control after Chen debacle More than 10 days after Beijing and Washington reached a tentative agreement on his departure, Chen Guangcheng remains confined to a hospital bed as China seeks to show it controls the blind activist's fate. ... more | .. |
  A Solution for Medical Needs and Cramped Quarters in Space Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With ... more | .. |
 Iraq's fugitive VP has medical checks in Turkey Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces trial in absentia in Baghdad on charges of running a death squad, has undergone "routine" medical checks in Turkey, his office said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Hip implant for long-term use Hip replacement is one of the most frequent operations carried out in Germany. Each year, doctors implant some 200,000 artificial hip joints. Often the artificial hips need to be replaced just ten y ... more |
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Gold soars towards $5,600 as Trump rattles sabre over Iran
Online platforms offer filtering to fight AI slop; EU lawmakers want AI to pay for using copyrighted work
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  40 die in Chinese hailstorm Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwestern China, the local government said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  1,500 children in Nigeria village suffer lead-poisoning International medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that 1,500 children in a mining village in northwest Nigeria have suffered lead-poisoning and are not receiving care. ... more | .. |
 Increasing speed of Greenland glaciers gives new insight for rising sea level Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limi ... more | .. |
 Twin attacks kill four in central Iraq Insurgents killed four people, including a man and his son, in two attacks in Diyala province in central Iraq on Wednesday, police and medical officials said. ... more |
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  Critics question lese-majeste death Government critics are questioning whether a man jailed for criticizing the monarchy died in hospital because he was given inadequate medical attention. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam 'cancer-cure' horn habit threat to world rhinos For desperate Vietnamese cancer patients ground rhinoceros horn is seen as an elixir of life - a medically unproven and illegal obsession that threatens the very survival of the world's wild rhinos. ... more | .. |
  Modern hybrid corn makes better use of nitrogen Today's hybrid corn varieties more efficiently use nitrogen to create more grain, according to 72 years of public-sector research data reviewed by Purdue University researchers. Tony Vyn, a professo ... more | .. |
  Africa's last rhinos threatened by poaching Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching. ... more |
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