Chemists' Designer Molecules Closer To Reality. By making use of model compounds in drug design, chemists at the University of California, San Diego identified a class of molecules that could lead to treatments for a wide range of diseases, including cancer, arthritis, and heart disease. Enzymes--protein catalysts--in the body that help break do... [Science Blog - Science News Stories]
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genetics. Antioxidants during pregnancy may help prevent birth defects tied to alcohol [Science Blog - Science News Stories]
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Physicists reveal first 'nanoflowers'. Today the Institute of Physics releases some of the most beautiful science images of the year so far, a collection of photomicrographs of tiny ''flowers'' and ''trees'' less than one thousandth the width of a human hair. The images are published in the Institute journal Nanotechnology. These stunni... [Science Blog - Science News Stories]
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Nanoshells cancer treatment proves effective in first animal test. A revolutionary new form of cancer therapy in development at Rice University and its licensee, Nanospectra Biosciences Inc., has proven effective at eradicating tumors in laboratory animals during the first phase of animal testing. The noninvasive cancer treatment uses a combination of harmless, ne... [Science Blog - Science News Stories]
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Study confirms 'chemobrain' effect from cancer treatment. In a series of studies in breast cancer patients, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have confirmed the presence of ''chemobrain'' after chemotherapy treatment - but they also discovered that a significant portion of patients have cognitive declines even before chemo... [Science Blog - Science News Stories]
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