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Animal and biological science highlights: San Antonio Fluid Dyna...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Tue, 11/18/2008 - 23:00

(American Institute of Physics) From dolphins to clams to flying creatures like hummingbirds and bats, many of nature's most fascinating creatures exhibit forms of fluid flow.

When the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics takes place from Nov. 23-25 at the San Antonio Convention Center, researchers from across the globe will describe cutting-edge research with applications in astronomy, engineering, alternative energy, biology, and medicine.


 

Animal and biological science highlights San Antonio Fluid Dynam...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 23:00

(American Institute of Physics) From dolphins to clams to flying creatures like hummingbirds and bats, many of nature's most fascinating creatures exhibit forms of fluid flow.

When the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics takes place from Nov. 23-25 at the San Antonio Convention Center, researchers from across the globe will describe cutting-edge research with applications in astronomy, engineering, alternative energy, biology and medicine.


 

Scientists identify machinery that helps make memories

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 10/29/2008 - 23:00

(Duke University Medical Center) Duke University Medical Center researchers have identified a missing-link molecule that helps to explain the process of plasticity in the brain during memory creation and that could lead to targeted therapies.


 

Barrow researchers identify a new approach to detect the early p...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 08/27/2008 - 23:00

(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center recently participated in a pilot study with the Montreal Neurological Institute that suggests a certain type of MRI scanning can detect when a patient is failing brain tumor treatment before symptoms appear.

The results of the study pave the way for a proactive treatment approach.


 

Looking Beyond The Drug Receptor For Clues To Drug Effectiveness

ScienceDaily  Tue, 08/26/2008 - 09:00

Antipsychotic drugs that are widely used to treat schizophrenia and other problems may not work as scientists have assumed, according to findings from Duke University Medical Center researchers that could lead to changes in how these drugs are developed and prescribed.


 

Major 'missed' biochemical pathway emerges as important in virtu...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 05/21/2008 - 23:00

(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have published a study in Science that provides compelling evidence that the nitric oxide system in cells is very broad-based and important, resembling in its essence the much-studied system of phosphorylation.

The findings may offer new insights into how cells work and the basis of many diseases.


 

Proteins that stop a major signaling pathway can also generate n...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 04/23/2008 - 23:00

(Duke University Medical Center) Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered that a crucial communications pathway in cells not only stops cells from making proteins, it also makes them go.