Technology

Genome Editing Brings Possibility Of Gene Therapies Closer To Reality

Researchers have evaluated the safety and reliability of the existing targeted gene correction technologies, and successfully developed a new method, TALEN-HDAdV, which could significantly increased gene-correction efficiency in human induced pluripotent ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 11:30am

Drones Are Not Just For The White House- They Can Help Photographers Too

Though drones have gotten a bad rap lately due to an overzealous American government obsessed with using technology to control the message, they will soon have benefits in the private sector outside bird's eye views of fireworks. Take photography. Li ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 5:30am

Text Messages From The ER Can Reduce Binge Drinking

Imagine getting this text message when you are at the pub tonight: "Looking forward to seeing you at 2 AM- General Hospital". Creepy, but it may work.  Young adults who screened positive for a history of hazardous or binge drinking reduced their ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2014 - 10:12am

England Football Can Still Win In Brazil- The Robot World Cup

Though England football fans stopped singing "Three Lions" after the second game of the opening round at World Cup 2014, there is still hope to bring back hardware: in robotics. The University of Hertfordshire’s robot football team, the ‘Bold Hea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 5:01pm

Women With Sexy Social Media Photos Seen As Less Competent- Psychologists

Young women who post sexy or revealing photos on social media sites are regarded by female peers as less competent to perform tasks, less physically attractive and less socially attractive, a new study indicates. "This is a clear indictment of sexy s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 9:24pm

The Big Data Problem Will Also Be A Problem For Science 2.0

George Dyson. Credit: edge.org If you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: "Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.&qu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2014 - 11:33am

What Google Trends Reveals About Republican And Democrat Climate Change Concerns

Is it true that you can discern how someone votes based on their Google search history related to science and health issues? It seems to be so, in a majority of cases. Republicans search for information about the weather, climate change and global warming ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 1:15pm

Corticosteroid Drugs Used For Asthma Suppress Growth- Systematic Reviews

Corticosteroid drugs used in inhalers by children with asthma may suppress their growth, suggest two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library which focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. The authors fou ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 10:41pm

Birdsongs Decoded

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections, by using recordings of individual birds and of dawn choruses to identify characteristics of bird sounds. They took advanta ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 4:51pm

Mapping Environmental Effects On DNA One Cell At A Time

A new single-cell technique can help investigate how the environment affects our development and the traits we inherit from our parents. It can be used to map all of the 'epigenetic marks' on the DNA within a single cell,which will boost underst ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 11:18am