A team of experts from the Karolinska Institutet, in Sweden, say that they were able to establish a direct link between the onset of metabolic conditions such as blood lipid disorder, diabetes and obesity and a dysfunction occurring in lipid cells.
If put to good use, this discovery could result in the development... |
26 September 2011
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After years in the making, scientists finally announce the creation of the first calibration curve for radio carbon dating. The achievement helps this investigation method achieve its full potential, analysts say, more than 30 years after investigations started. A lot of debate went into this issue, and camps crystal... |
16 January 2010
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Amongst some of the commonest isotopes on Earth, such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13 and oxygen-15, we find the notorious carbon-14 isotope. However, while all the previously mentioned isotopes have half-lives ranging from a few tens of minutes to few seconds, carbon-14 decays much slower having a half-life of about 5730 ... |
29 January 2008
06:33 GMT |
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