Culture and science news from SciGuru.com for latest developments http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3764/The-World's-Smallest-Cup-of-Water:-Location-of-water-relative-to-prototypic-protein/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:40:15 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3764 By combining theoretical and experimental expertise in the United States, Japan, and France, a team of scientists determined that a water molecule (gu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3715/Scientists-Discover-Human-Sperm-Gene-is-600-Million-Years-Old/ Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:59:54 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3715 What do a trout, sea anemone, rooster, fly and man have in common? Just as styles in sexy clothes or fashion change from year to year and culture to c http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3679/More-oil-spills-to-come,-says-WUSTL-anthropologist-/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:34:52 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3679 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not simply a random accident. There will be more of these spills to come, as the days of easy http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3672/Magnets-trump-metallics:-Magnetic-fields-can-block-conductivity-of-carbon-nanotubes/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:31:49 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3672 Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electron http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3669/Amid-the-Murk-of-'Gut-Flora,'-Vitamin-D-Receptor-Emerges-as-a-Key-Player/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:16:12 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3669 Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us d http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3657/Tradition-explains-why-some-meerkats-are-late-risers/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:26:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3657 Just as afternoon tea is traditional in England but not in France, different groups of meerkats have different ways of doing things, Cambridge zoologi http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3606/Normal-adult-blood-can-generate-pluripotent-stem-cells,-study-reports/ Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:52:08 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3606 In findings likely to make it easier and faster for stem cell biologists to generate patient-specific embryonic-like stem cells, researchers at Childr http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3567/Virus-'explorers'-probe-inner-workings-of-the-brain/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:23:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3567 Imagine an exceedingly complex circuit board. Wires often split -- seemingly at random -- and connect in strange and unexpected ways. This is how Prin http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3553/Miniature-bits-of-ancient-plant-material-offer-insights-into-Andean-history-/ Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:11:01 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3553 The particles beneath your couch cushions, the dirt in your vacuum cleaner, and the crumbs on your kitchen floor say much more about you than you migh http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3530/Living,-breathing-human-lung-on-a-chip/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:37:01 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3530 Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a mi http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3473/Fly-Cells-Flock-Together-Follow-the-Light/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:49:21 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3473 Scientists at Johns Hopkins report using a laser beam to activate a protein that makes a cluster of fruit fly cells act like a school of fish turning http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3400/The-Secret-Life-of-Isaac-Newton-Revealed/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:46:02 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3400 Sir Isaac Newton, an icon of scientific revelation, led a secret life as a scholar of the mysterious art of alchemy. For the last six years, William http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3382/New-type-of-human-stem-cell-may-be-more-easy-to-manipulate/ Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:32:15 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3382 Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine (MGH-CRM) have a developed a new http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3318/New-method-manipulates-particles-for-sensors,-crime-scene-testing/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:26:30 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3318 Researchers at Purdue University have developed a potential new tool for medical diagnostics, testing food and water for contamination, and crime-scen http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3283/Stanford-students'-new-electric-car-breaks-the-mold,-not-the-bank/ Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:23:46 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3283 In a matter of weeks, Stanford graduate students have built an electric car they hope will make daily travel more environmentally friendly, efficient http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3279/Children-and-Market-Exploitation-of-Public-Media/ Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:08:13 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3279 SciGuru.com: Were you ever annoyed by the advertisements with inappropriate contents when you watch TV with your family? Ever since the advent of publ http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3270/Chromatin-May-Explain-How-Few-Genetic-Changes-Lead-to-Pediatric-Kidney-Cancer-/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:32:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3270 In adults, tumors display hundreds of genetic mutations that have led the way to cancer. Yet among children, just a few mutations can unleash abnormal http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3256/New-culture-dish-could-advance-human-embryonic-stem-cell-research/ Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:15:07 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3256 A new synthetic Petri dish coating could overcome a major challenge to the advancement of human embryonic stem cell research, say University of Michig http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3211/Breakthrough-in-stem-cell-culturing/ Mon, 31 May 2010 06:07:53 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3211 For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been cultured under chemically controlled conditions without the use of animal substances, which i http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3200/Blocking-Tumor's-Death-Swtich-Stops-Tumor-Growth/ Sat, 29 May 2010 16:56:28 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3200 Every cell contains machinery for self-destruction, used to induce death when damaged or sick. But according to a new research study, a receptor thoug