March 18, 2010
Long-term hominin evolution is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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March 17, 2010
As MIT's Media Lab moves into bigger and better premises, its director discusses the social benefits of the lab's front-line research
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March 15, 2010
Sending signals across skin could make it much easier to monitor a person's vital signs round the clock outside hospital
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March 14, 2010
Nanoscale polyethylene fibres conduct heat better than pure iron – good news for circuit board designers
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March 13, 2010
The polymer, called Nafion, can "remember" three distinct shapes when heated – the best yet for a shape-memory polymer
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March 11, 2010
For the first time, researchers have used whole-genome sequencing to track down disease genes in people who have rare inherited disorders.
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March 8, 2010
BMC Medical Genetics , Vol. 10, No. 1. , 6. Abstract BACKGROUND:The number of genome-wide association studies is growing rapidly leading to the discovery and replication of many new disease loci.
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March 5, 2010
Tags Ethical, legal, and practical concerns about recontacting patients to inform them of new information: the case in medical genetics.
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