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- Humans
Women’s chromosome division different from men’s
Using fluorescent markers, scientists are discovering that men and women divide chromosomes differently. The research may help explain Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders.
- Physics
Take the time to break quantum encryption
A time-travel scenario permitted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity offers a bit of possibility for breaking quantum encryption.
- Health & Medicine
Gender matters in heart transplants
Heart transplant recipients who get a gender-matched organ fare better than those receiving mismatched organs.
- Health & Medicine
Treating viral heart infections
Viral heart infections respond to interferon treatment, easing cardiomyopathy in some patients.
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- Health & Medicine
Mini heart attack best treated like the big one
Patients admitted to hospitals with mild symptoms of a heart attack may benefit from getting a heart catheterization performed promptly.
- Chemistry
Blueprint to repel oil and water
The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off.
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- Chemistry
Household cleaner makes blood removal simple!
Common household “oxy” cleaners remove blood almost too well.
- Math
Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed
Review by Tom Siegfried.
- Science & Society
All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan
NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.
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