Like tuning a violin to produce strong, elegant notes, researchers at The Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on the outside of the body's killer immune system cells which they believe can be selectively targeted to keep the cells in superb infection- and disease-fighting condition.
In a study published online November 30 in Nature Immunology, the researchers describe their discovery of seven different receptors on T cells that can tamp down immune responses during a prolonged battle with an infectious pathogen or against...
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The walking dead may or may not be coming to eat your flesh. But there's no doubt zombies are a rising part of Portland culture.
Last Sunday brought the fourth-annual Portland Zombie Walk, in which hundreds of fake-blood-drenched ghouls marched through downtown. Among the lumbering ranks were undead clowns, cops — even an Obama zombie moaning for "chaaaaange."
Saturday saw 58 zombies perform the dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video at an Oaks Park fundraiser as part of a global re-enactment. And only about six months remain...
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LONDON - Fifty-year-old restaurant chain Pizza Hut is temporarily changing its name to Pasta Hut in a radical £100m relaunch.
Although it plans to keep the same number of pizzas on the menu, from this week Pizza Hut will introduce eight pasta dishes across its 700 restaurants to support its new positioning. Nine restaurants will change their signage immediately.
Pizza Hut marketing director Claudia Nicholls-Magielsen said it was making the change because research showed that consumers wanted more variety when eating out, and that, on...
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GeoEye Inc said it successfully launched into space on Saturday its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide the U.S. government, Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.
"It was a picture-perfect launch and we've now gotten confirmation that ... we have commanded the satellite and it has responded," GeoEye Chief Executive Matthew O'Connell told Reuters in a telephone interview from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where the satellite was launched at 11:50 a.m....
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In a 'rare' unexpected behind the scenes clip, Bill O'Reilly loses his cool...
DARPA is close to awarding a contract for the initial development phase of an unmanned aircraft capable of staying aloft for five years at a time, according to the aviation magazine Flight.
"Aviation has a perfect record--we've never left one up there. We will attempt to break that record," DARPA Vulture program manager Daniel Newman told Flight Global. "We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft."
Call it a "persistent pseudo-satellite capability in an aircraft package"--DARPA does. Documents from the R&D...
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Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarised Scientology from a 1934 German book called "Scientology: Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge" The text seems to map to various hoo-haw from the cult's official doctrine, too.
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Here are the official pictures of the production Alfa Romeo 8C spider which won’t hit the showrooms before next year.
Following the example of the coupé, the 8C Spider will be powered by the 450bhp 4.7-litre V8 engine derived from the Maserati’s V8. The engine will likely hooked up to the same six-speed gearbox used in the coupé. The 8C Spider also features ceramic brakes and Alfa engineers have improved the in-house traction control system called VDC.
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The Devil May Cry 4 demo was released today by Capcom on the Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Marketplace and PS3’s PlayStation Network as a 613MB download. That’s worldwide everywhere, except for Europe where Capcom said the PS3 download will arrive a week later.
Devil May Cry 4 Collector's Edition for PS3Is his power that of a demon, or of a god? New main character Nero and his demonic devil bringer add speed and style to the Devil May Cry series! Experience advanced gameplay along with gorgeous cutting-edge graphics. Thanks to the power of the...
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