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This Week in the Future, August 30-Septmber 3
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by <a href="http://www.baarbarian.com/">Baarbarian</a>.
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Just agree to a lifetime of hyper-accurate real-time location tracking. The future of incarceration is just one of our favorite posts this week. This week in the future on PopSci: Technological Tracking of Free-Ra...
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Researchers Announce First Implantable Artificial Kidney Prototype
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Rebecca Boyle.
An artificial kidney powered by the circulatory system could be the first implantable device to replace kidney donation and dialysis, scientists say. Led by a University of California-San Francisco scientist, a consortium of about 10 different researc...
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New Method Swaps Pressurized Biomass For Petroleum in Plastics, Cosmetics
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Rebecca Boyle.
An accidental chemistry discovery could lead to a new method for making antifreeze, moisturizer and plastic bottles out of biomass rather than petroleum, according to researchers at Iowa State University. Professor Walter Trahanovsky was using a high-...
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NASA Solar Probe Sets Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Literally
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Rebecca Boyle.
In a mission to learn more about the sun’s inner workings, NASA is planning to launch a specially shielded spacecraft in 2018 that will plunge into the solar atmosphere. The car-sized Solar Probe Plus will explore an area just 4 million miles from t...
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MIT’s Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells
Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by Clay Dillow.
Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. As such, researchers are constantly trying to mimic the tricks that millio...
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Top 10 science papers
- Evolutionary hidden information detection by granulation-based fitness approximation • ArticleApplied Soft Computing, Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 719-729 | Davarynejad, M.; Ahn, C.W.; Vrancken, J.; van den Berg, J.; Coello Coello, C.A. […]
- The Hallmarks of Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 57-70 | Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, R.A. […]
- Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 129-141 | Hafner, M.; Landthaler, M.; Burger, L.; Khorshid, M.; Hausser, J.; Berninger, P.; Rothballer, A.; Ascano, M.; Jungkamp, A.C.; Munschauer, M.; Ulrich, A.; Wardle, G.S.; Dewell, S.; Zavolan, M.; Tuschl, T. […]
- A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 69-80 | Sharma, S.V.; Lee, D.Y.; Li, B.; Quinlan, M.P.; Takahashi, F.; Maheswaran, S.; McDermott, U.; Azizian, N.; Zou, L.; Fischbach, M.A.; Wong, K.K.; Brandstetter, K.; Wittner, B.; Ramaswamy, S.; Classon, M.; Settleman, J. […]
- Immunity, Inflammation, and Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 883-899 | Grivennikov, S.I.; Greten, F.R.; Karin, M. […]
- Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors • ArticleCell, Volume 126, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 663-676 | Takahashi, K.; Yamanaka, S. […]
- The Inflammasomes • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 821-832 | Schroder, K.; Tschopp, J. […]
- Mitochondria Supply Membranes for Autophagosome Biogenesis during Starvation • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 656-667 | Hailey, D.W.; Rambold, A.S.; Satpute-Krishnan, P.; Mitra, K.; Sougrat, R.; Kim, P.K.; Lippincott-Schwartz, J. […]
- Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 805-820 | Takeuchi, O.; Akira, S. […]
- Reconstitution of the RIG-I Pathway Reveals a Signaling Role of Unanchored Polyubiquitin Chains in Innate Immunity • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 315-330 | Zeng, W.; Sun, L.; Jiang, X.; Chen, X.; Hou, F.; Adhikari, A.; Xu, M.; Chen, Z.J. […]
