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Posted 2011-10-08:
- Electricity from the nose: Engineers make power from human respiration
- Imaging agents offer new view of inflammation, cancer
- A new species of 'gigantic' mollusc has been discovered in the Antarctic waters
- Raising 'good' cholesterol levels reduces heart attack and stroke risk in diabetes patients
- Early detection of plant disease
- More insight into the secret life of the American teen
- Reefs recovered faster after mass extinction than first thought
- Alzheimer's research: Researchers watch amyloid plaques form
- Culling can't save the Tasmanian devil, researchers warn
- New targets for treating inflammatory, autoimmune diseases discovered
- Wireless window contacts: No maintenance, no batteries
- Timing is crucial for family consent in brain dead organ donors
Posted 2011-10-08:
- Astrophysics and extinctions: News about planet-threatening events
- Worm 'cell death' discovery could lead to new drugs for deadly parasite
- A new species of fossil silky lacewing insects that lived more than 120 million years ago
- Biological fingerprints improve diagnosis of dementia
- New insight into plant immune defenses
- Jonesing for java: Could caffeine use predict risk for cocaine abuse?
- Natural compound helps reverse diabetes in mice
- Novel mechanism for preventing infection via body's mucosal borders
- Physicists localize 3-D matter waves for first time
- Why anti-rejection drugs for organ transplant patients cause hypertension
- Pregnant mothers at risk from air pollution, California study suggests
- Genetic link to suicidal behavior confirmed
- Ancient supernovas discovered: 10-billion-year-old exploding stars were a source of Earth's iron, researchers say
- Blood tests may hold clues to pace of Alzheimer's disease progression
- Residual damage after heart attack no longer inevitable
- Smoking could lead to 40 million excess tuberculosis deaths by 2050
- Multibeam sonar can map undersea gas seeps
- Workplace sabotage fueled by envy, unleashed by disengagement
- Ionic liquid catalyst helps turn emissions into fuel
- Genetic makeup affects testosterone concentrations in men
- Southern California's tectonic plates revealed in detail
- Mine-hunting software helping doctors to identify rare cells in human cancer
- Practical play: Interactive video games appear valuable for ICU patients
- Marijuana use may double the risk of accidents for drivers, study finds
- Crab pulsar beams most energetic gamma rays ever detected from a pulsar
- New mouse model recreates common form of autism
- Aggression-boldness gene identified in model fish
- Expression of pluripotency-associated gene marks many types of adult stem cells
- One room -- 63 different dust particles? Researchers aim to build dust library
- Why does conflict arise when social identity is threatened?
- Lungfish provides insight to life on land: 'Humans are just modified fish'
- Dioxin-like chemical messenger makes brain tumors more aggressive
- New technique for understanding quantum effects in water
- Biochemists identify how tissue cells detect and perfect
- Hold the phone for vital signs: Researchers turn a smart phone into a medical monitor
- Ability to ride a bike can aid differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in any setting
- Is chivalry the norm for insects?
- New oral drug found to reduce relapses in multiple sclerosis patients
- Technology to make old-age safer
- Scientists find stem cell reprogramming technique is safer than previously thought
- Engineers: Non-compete agreements have high cost for employees
- People without cars, financial assets less likely to marry: study
Posted 2011-10-07:
- Plants may have the genetic flexibility to respond to climate change
- Decade of effort yields diabetes susceptibility gene
- Krypton Hall effect thruster for spacecraft propulsion
- New tool helps identify prostate cancer patients with highest risk of death
- Hundreds of undiscovered artifacts found at Gallipoli battlefield
- How fair sanctions are orchestrated in the brain
- Astronomers find elusive planets in decade-old Hubble data
- 'Genetic biopsy' of human eggs might help pick the best for IVF
- Living species of aquatic beetle found in 20-million-year-old sediments
- Earlier tracheostomies result in better patient outcomes, study finds
- Everest expedition suggests nitric oxide benefits for intensive care patients
- Archaeologist argues world's oldest temples were not temples at all
- Monkeys 'move and feel' virtual objects using only their brains
- Scientists identify cause of severe hypoglycemia
- Death from above: Parasite wasps attacking ants from the air filmed for the first time
- Changes in brain function in early HIV infection: A reliable indicator of disease prognosis?
- Young and thin instead of old and bulky: Researchers report on changes in Arctic sea ice after return of research vessel Polarstern
- Marijuana component could ease pain from chemotherapy drugs, study suggests
- Patient-specific stem cells: Major step toward cell-based therapies for life-threatening diseases
- Baby formula: Inflammatory food toxins found in high levels in infants
- Acoustic cloak: Closer to achieving the acoustic undetectability of objects
- Invasive melanoma may be more likely in children than adults
- Key pathway in the nitrogen cycle uncovered: Bacteria forge nitrogen from nitric oxide
- Think you’re in poor health? It could increase your odds of dementia
- First comet found with ocean-like water
- Antisense therapy delivers long-term correction of severe spinal muscular atrophy in mice
- Colossal aggregations of giant alien freshwater fish as a potential biogeochemical hotspot
- New regimen frees kidney-transplant patients from dependency on immunosuppresant drugs
- Novel math formula can predict success of certain cancer therapies
- You can wash away your troubles, with soap
- Triple rainbows exist, photo evidence shows
- Evidence found for the genetic basis of autism: Models of autism show that gene copy number controls brain structure and behavior
- 'Escaped' genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation regions across North Dakota
- Survival increases in early stage breast cancer after treatment with herceptin and chemo, study finds
- Crash-safe battery protection for electric cars
- Illusory memories can have salutary effects
- Biologists find 'surprising' number of unknown viruses in sewage
- Women exposed to synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) in the womb face increased cancer risk, study finds
- Controlling silicon evaporation allows scientists to boost graphene quality
- Dietary supplements for patients after lung injury do not appear to improve outcomes; may be harmful, study suggests
- Components based on nature’s example
- Research sheds light on origins of greatness
- Arctic sea ice continues decline, hits second-lowest level
- Progression of lung fibrosis blocked in mouse model
- MVA-B Spanish HIV vaccine shows 90 percent immune response in humans
- Lift weights, eat mustard, build muscles?
- Unlocking jams in fluid materials: A theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter
- Athletes' winning streaks may not be all in our -- or their -- heads
- NASA's Aqua satellite sees birth of two tropical cyclones in Eastern Pacific
- 3-D look at Philippe provided clues of transition into a hurricane
- Study finds liver cancer increasing in low risk countries, decreasing in high risk countries
Posted 2011-10-06:
- Pumice proposed as home to the first life forms
- Seeds of destruction in Parkinson's disease: Spread of diseased proteins kills neurons
- HIV: Cell-penetrating peptides for drug delivery act like a Swiss Army Knife
- Does MRI pose more than minimal risk in pediatric research?
- Certain biofuel mandates unlikely to be met by 2022; unless new technologies, policies developed
- People as 'sensors': Twitter messages reveal NFL's big plays and fans
- Sociability may depend upon brain cells generated in adolescence
- Rebooting the system: Immune cells repair damaged lung tissues after flu infection
- Ancient road found at Maya village buried by volcanic ash 1,400 years ago
- Remitting multiple sclerosis: Natalizumab reduces relapses and disability, review suggests
- Pioneering fingermark technology uses mass spectrometry imaging to provide crime scene investigators with key extra details
- Keeping track of reality: Why some people are better at it
- Last universal common ancestor more complex than previously thought
- Immune mechanism blocks inflammation generated by oxidative stress
- Titanic jigsaw challenge: Piecing together a global color map of Saturn’s largest moon
- One quarter of seniors over 70 have had silent strokes
- Potential key found for unlocking biomass energy
- Here, there, everywhere: Reward and penalty processing is widespread in the human brain
- Kepler spacecraft discovers new multi-planet solar system
- Hormone fights fat with fat: Orexin prevents obesity in mice by activating calorie-burning brown fat
- A fish's personality may determine how it is captured
- This is your brain on estrogen
- A 'carbonizing dragon': Construction drives China's growing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions
- Depression uncouples brain's 'hate circuit', MRI study finds
- Physicists move one step closer to quantum computer
- Nanoparticles seek and destroy glioblastoma in mice
- Outsmarting algae: Scientist finds the turn-off switch
- Residential washers may not kill hospital-acquired bacteria
- For common toy breed dog windpipe issue, veterinarians use technology and precision
- Growing up in bad neighborhoods has a 'devastating' impact, study finds
- 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 'Quasicrystals' once thought impossible have changed understanding of solid matter
- Preterm infants exposed to stressors in neonatal intensive care unit display reduced brain size, study finds
- Hyperactive Hartley 2 has a split history, comet-exploring spacecraft finds
- Modeling cancer using ecological principles
- Seaside fortress was a final stronghold of early Islamic power
- In reading facial emotion, context is everything
- Follow the odor and CO<sub>2</sub>: Flight patterns reveal how mosquitoes find hosts to transmit deadly diseases
- Circadian clock may impact organ transplant success
- 'Back-up system' reduces heart disease deaths, research finds
- Smokers twice as likely to have strokes, study suggests
- Grazing zebras versus cattle: Not so black and white
- Fighting prejudice through imitation: Asking white people to mirror the movements of a black person lowers their levels of implicit prejudice
- When water and air meet: New light shed on mysterious structure of world's most common liquid interface
- Newly identified gene may be risk factor for osteoporosis
- Cell transformation from one type of cell to another
- Scientists shut down pump action to break breast cancer cells' drug resistance
- DNA sequences reveal the true identity of the softshell turtle Pelodiscus
- Drunk behavior: A question of immunity
- Longer trips to the ER, especially for minorities and poor
- Nursing home flu shots fall short, especially for blacks
- Guidelines set out for obtaining more efficient latex
- Teaching non-language courses in a foreign language improves language learning, research suggests
Posted 2011-10-05:
- Climate change simulations show which animals can take the heat
- Hysterectomy is associated with increased levels of iron in the brain; Study suggests reducing iron may lower age-related brain disease risk
- Advance offers new opportunities in chemistry education, research
- Combination therapy beneficial for head and neck skin carcinomas, study suggests
- Researchers identifiy more accurate treatment delivery for robotic radiosurgery system
- Intensive training helps children with reading and writing difficulties
- 'Mirage-effect' helps researchers hide objects
- A shot of cortisone stops traumatic stress, study suggests
- Green tea helps mice keep off extra pounds
- Experiments suggest research avenues for treating excess fat storage and obesity
- A hitchhiker's guide to the Galápagos: Co-evolution of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites
- Young children show improved verbal IQ after 20 days of exposure to music-based, cognitive training 'cartoons'
- Alzheimer's might be transmissible in similar way as infectious prion diseases, research suggests
- Vitamin D could lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, study suggests
- Researchers transform iPhone into high-quality medical imaging device
- Cell movement provides clues to aggressive breast cancer
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins new Vesta mapping orbit
- We discount the pain of people we don't like
- Engineers build smart petri dish: Device can be used for medical diagnostics, imaging cell growth continuously
- Faulty intellectual disability genes linked to older dads at conception, research finds
- From compost to sustainable fuels: Heat-loving fungi sequenced
- Study of COX-2 inhibitors could lead to new class of stroke drugs
- Robot brain implanted in a rodent: Researcher implants robotic cerebellum to repair motor function
- .7 billion spent on unnecessary tests and treatments in U.S. in one year
- 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: Discovery of expanding universe by observing distant supernovae
- Pale people may need vitamin D supplements
- Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus shows off for NASA's Cassini
- MRI tests can be safe for people with implanted cardiac devices, study suggests
- Virtual reality worm-tracking challenge leads to new tool for brain research
- Parental weight strongly influences thinness in children
- First images from ALMA telescope: Hidden star-formation in Antennae Galaxies revealed
- Hormonal contraception doubles HIV risk, study suggests
- How gas and temperature controlled bacterial response to Deepwater Horizon spill
- Studies on vein blockages and multiple sclerosis reviewed
- Location matters: For invasive aquatic species, it's better to start upstream
- Certain therapies appear beneficial in reducing PTSD symptoms in some trauma survivors
- Novel energy-storage membrane: Performance surpasses existing rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors
- Overall quality of pregnant woman’s diet affects risk for two birth defects, study shows
- Forest structure, services and biodiversity may be lost even as form remains
- Scientists find mechanism that leads to drug resistance in bacteria causing melioidosis
- Helium raises resolution of whole cell imaging
- Social media sites may reveal information about problem drinking among college students
- Ice Age carbon mystery: Rising carbon dioxide levels not tied to Pacific Ocean, as had been suspected
- Tuberculosis bacterium's outer cell wall disarms the body's defense to remain infectious
- Dawn at Vesta: Massive mountains, rough surface, and old-young dichotomy in hemispheres
- Virtual fly-through bronchoscopy yields real results
- Tick responsible for equine piroplasmosis outbreak identified
- Community effort brings lasting drop in smoking, delinquency, drug use
- Fox Chase Gleason scores better predict prostate cancer's recurrence after radiation, study finds
- Regular exercise improves health of people with long-term kidney disease, study suggests
- Prison education programs reduce inmate prison return rate, study shows
- Developing East Coast fever vaccine
- Compliance by children's hospitals with quality measure for asthma care not associated with reduced readmission rates
- Association between advance directives and U.S. Medicare end-of-life expenditures varies across regions
- Same-day discharge after elective PCI not associated with increased risk of death, rehospitalization, U.S. study shows
- How much should patients in intensive care eat?
- Children with spina bifida need personal 'starter'
- Polar oceans in transition
- Closer to solving the cod mystery
- Terrorist attacks give rise to new research needs
- More children in Europe with Swedish family policy
- Gaps in forest monitoring
- Non-English speaking head and neck cancer patients have significantly worse outcomes
- Stroke rate 25 percent higher for Metis
Posted 2011-10-04:
- Decline and recovery of coral reefs linked to 700 years of human and environmental activities
- Priming with DNA vaccine makes avian flu vaccine work better: Proof of concept for universal influenza vaccine
- Fruity aromas: An aphrodisiac for flies
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy predicts outcomes for Merkel cell carcinoma
- Two early stages of carbon nanotube growth discovered
- Schoolboy rugby: Risk of suffering an injury during a single season can be high, UK study shows
- Cosmic weight watching reveals black hole-galaxy history
- Premature birth may increase risk of epilepsy later in life
- Tenerife geology discovery is among 'world's best': Holiday Island landscape reveals explosive past
- Biomarker for Huntington's disease identified
- Polymeric material has potential for noninvasive procedures
- Mother's investment in the eggs makes zebra finch males attractive
- 'Alarm clock' gene explains wake-up function of biological clock
- Increased fat in children raises their blood pressure risk
- Exotic quantum states: A new research approach
- Researchers discover new enzyme function for anemia
- Killing crop-eating pests: Compounds work by disrupting bugs' winter sleep
- Severely impaired schizophrenics enter dynamic cycle of recovery after cognitive therapy
- Gravitational waves that are 'sounds of the universe'
- Previously unknown cell interaction key in immune system attacks
- Russian and US veterinarians collaborate to solve mysterious wild tiger deaths
- Genomic architecture presages genomic instability
- Pathways of pain-blocking medications modeled by computer
- Everyone's a little bit racist, but it may not be your fault, study suggests
- Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss last winter
- BPA exposure in utero may increase predisposition to breast cancer
- Neuronal stem cells tracked using MRI: Technology could inform treatment for brain injury and neurological disease
- Stress hormones may increase cardiovascular risks for shift workers
- Weeds are vital to the existence of farmland species, study finds
- Baseball's winning formula: Statistical analysis debunks the old adage 'Pitching is 75 percent of the game'
- 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Breakthroughs in understanding how human Immune system is activated
- Fatty acid test: Why some harm health, but others help
- Taking the heat: Asian elephants simply 'ride out' high daytime heat load
- Diabetes and cancer: A shared biological basis
- Physicists consider their own carbon footprint
- Combating mood disorders: New approach simplifies the search for more specific drugs
- Referral to talking therapies may cut use of health services and sick leave, UK study finds
- Significant variation in organ donations across all four UK countries
- Employers less likely to interview openly gay men for job openings in certain parts of U.S.
- Medicare patients at risk of long-term institutionalization after hospital stay
- Suspects of child abuse homicide are convicted at rates similar to suspects of adult homicides, study finds
- American Cancer Society report finds burden of breast cancer deaths shifts to poor
- Mapping immune genes in salmon
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