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From the tops of thunderstorms: Antimatter

News: Nuclear Physics    January 12, 2011
Gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) emitted from thunderstorms…..Credit: NASA When thinking about particle physics, most people will think about laboratories and human-built devices, especially the monster atom smashers like the Tevatron or Large Hadron Collider. Well, it turns out nature beat us to it. The primal particle accelerator on Earth turns out to be the thunderstorm. Every [...]
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Brain cancer genome sequenced

News: Major Disease Cure    January 29, 2010
The cost of sequencing a human genome has come down, way down; and the value of doing it is going up. Here’s a very good example: scientists at the University of California Los Angeles (USA) recently completed the sequencing of the DNA from a type of brain cancer cell line, a glioblastoma known as U87. [...]
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Formerly, one brain cancer…now it’s four

News: Major Disease Cures    January 22, 2010
One of the things that makes cancer so difficult to ‘cure’ is that it has so many forms. Perhaps most difficult of all, as scientists are learning, are cancers such as the most common and usually fatal brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). As a new study at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA) [...]
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