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for the Week of August 15 to August 22, 2010
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Posted 2010-08-21:
- Nanoscale DNA sequencing could spur revolution in personal health care
- Virus may act as 'evolution-proof' biopesticide against malaria
- Newly identified RNA sequence is key in microRNA processing
- Today's superheroes send wrong image to boys, say researchers
- Researchers identify two FDA approved drugs that may fight HIV
- New targets for anti-angiogenesis drugs revealed
- Disturbances in certain genes play a role in autism
- Drug addicts get hooked via prescriptions, keep using 'to feel like a better person,' research shows
Posted 2010-08-21:
- Autism linked to multisensory integration
- Frozen flies may yield secrets for human organ transplants
- Smart fungus disarms plant, animal and human immunity
- Innovative imaging system may boost speed and accuracy in treatment of heart rhythm disorder
- Male menopause affects more than five million men
- Cigarette smoke causes harmful changes in the lungs even at the lowest levels, study finds
- Diabetes risk in children increases risk for weak bones
- Blood pressure drugs could help fight frailty, experiments show
- Victims of bullying suffer academically as well, psychologists report
- Natural lung material is promising scaffold for engineering lung tissue using embryonic stem cells
- Blood stem cell, leukemia link illuminated in new study
- Italian youths who drink with meals are less often adult problem-drinkers
- Earliest steps of common form of muscular dystrophy pinpointed
- Old drug holds promise against opportunistic lung bug
- Input-output trade-offs found in human information processing
- Homework wars: How can parents improve the odds of winning?
- Stomach bacteria need vitamin to establish infection, research finds
- Secrets of 'magic' antidepressant revealed
- Green leafy vegetables reduce diabetes risk, study finds
- Link between walking, cycling and health
- Brain gene expression changes when honey bees go the distance
- Scientists pry new information from disease-causing, shellfish-borne bacterium
- Cervical cancer: Drug and radiotherapy treatment saves lives, researchers find
- Male scientists regret parenthood decisions more than female counterparts, sociologist finds
- Human neural stem cells restore motor function in mice with chronic spinal cord injury
- Genetics underlie formation of body's back-up bypass vessels
- Proof that a gut-wrenching complaint -- irritable bowel syndrome -- is not in your head
- New biological find gives consequences for doping offence
- Workplace wellness plan saves money over the long-term, new study shows
Posted 2010-08-20:
- Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to attention problems in children
- Dogs' family status depends on family's locale
- Common hypertension drugs can raise blood pressure in certain patients
- Binge drinking increases death risk in men with high blood pressure
- With muscle-building treatment, mice live longer even as tumors grow
- Breast cancer survivors don't need to be afraid of air travel, study suggests
- Brain network links cognition, motivation
- Targeting hit-and-run cancer viruses
- Gender bender: Do gender knee implants provide better outcomes?
- Six-year-olds with squint less likely to be invited to birthday parties, study suggests
- A cure for HIV could be all in the 'mix'
- Moderate drinking, especially wine, associated with better cognitive function
- Overweight American children and adolescents becoming fatter
- Internet access at home increases the likelihood that adults will be in relationships, study finds
- Discovery may aid search for anti-aging drugs: Gene's action may help explain why restricting diet lengthens life in animals
- Surprise in genome structure linked to developmental diseases
- Stress in middle age could contribute to late-life dementia
- Thymus cells transform into skin cells in Swiss laboratory
- Even modest weight gain can harm blood vessels, researchers find
- Drug-eluting stents confirmed safe, effective for long-term use, study suggests
- Headaches in teens tied to overweight, smoking and lack of exercise
- Study shows gene's role in developing and maintaining cells key for a lifetime of memories
- Why implant coatings detach: Nanocorrosion causes implants to fail
- Brain connections break down as we age, study suggests
- Study explains why Alzheimer's drug is both safe and effective
- Long-term entecavir therapy reverses fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B patients
- Antidepressant can help treat major depression during perimenopause, menopause, study shows
Posted 2010-08-19:
- Choosing healthier protein-rich foods instead of red and processed meats may reduce heart disease
- Meningitis research breakthrough could save children’s lives
- Scientists closer to finding what causes the birth of a fat cell
- Paving 'slabs' that clean the air
- Women with osteoporosis suffer more if they have previously broken a bone, say scientists
- Early life influences risk for psychiatric disorders
- Vitamin D may treat or prevent allergy to common mold
- Breakthrough gene therapy prevents retinal degeneration
- SSRIs may pack more punch at the cellular level than believed
- Men more likely to cheat if they are economically dependent on their female partners, study finds
- Acupuncture not superior to sham acupuncture in knee osteoarthritis, study finds
- Smokers trying to give up: Don't stop thinking about cigarettes
- New link found between inflammation and cancer
- Why drunk drivers may get behind the wheel
- Novel diabetes hope comes from Chinese herbs
- Women who drink beer more likely to develop psoriasis
- Deaf, hard-of-hearing students perform first test of sign language by cell phone
- People who cannot escape a system are likely to defend the status quo, study finds
- Astronaut muscles waste in space: Safety for future Mars missions questioned
- Repairing spinal cord injury with manipulated neural stem cells
- Integrative body-mind training (IBMT) meditation found to boost brain connectivity
- Cause of immune system avoidance of certain pathogens discovered
- Antagonistic people may increase heart attack, stroke risk
- Accomplice in breast cancer discovered
- Studying yeast to better understand male infertility
- Skin condition associated with depression, anxiety and suicidal feelings
- Evolution may have pushed humans toward greater risk for type 1 diabetes
- B vitamins and the aging brain examined
- Genetic link to advanced fatty liver disease confirmed by new studies
- Postnatal depression can be prevented by health visitors, study finds
- Researchers challenge myth of the well-adjusted Asian-American
- Consumers need protection from unrealistic claims of home genetic tests, new report states
- Lung cancer patients receiving palliative care have improved quality of life, extended survival, study finds
Posted 2010-08-18:
- Moderate chocolate consumption linked to lower risks of heart failure, study finds
- Saving the brain's white matter with mutated mice
- Prevalence of hearing loss among US adolescents has increased significantly
- High stress levels may delay women getting pregnant, study suggests
- Sports brain trauma may cause disease mimicking ALS, researchers find
- Two types of bone marrow stem cells could work together to advance regenerative medicine
- Marriage and committed romance reduce stress-related hormone production
- New drugs to treat chronic pain without numbing may be possible
- Lung stem cells vital to lung repair associated with poor cancer prognosis when found in tumor
- Heavy drug-use among bad boys curbed by parental monitoring and peers
- Nearly one million children in U.S. potentially misdiagnosed with ADHD, study finds
- New screen offers hope for copper deficiency sufferers
- Many Americans are still clueless on how to save energy
- Preschoolers use statistics to understand others
- 'Smart' adult stem cells repair hearts
- Ozone and nicotine a bad combination for asthma
- SPF on your plate: Researcher connects the Mediterranean diet with skin cancer prevention
- Presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates, study finds
- MRSA-killing paint created
- UV-B treatment may improve psoriasis and vitamin D levels
- Gallbladder cancer may be linked to estrogens, study finds
- Reminding health-care staff to remove catheters reduces infections by half
- Growing up without sibs doesn't hurt social skills, study finds
- Studies pinpoint key targets for MRSA vaccine
- Health impact of Gulf Coast oil spill hazardous but improving
- Scientists map epigenetic changes during blood cell differentiation; Potential application for stem cell therapies
- Gene that causes barnacles to avoid ship hulls identified
- Obesity rates decline for many adolescents, but disparities worsen
- Genes associated with aggressive breast cancer
- Novel role: EZH2 boosts creation of ovarian cancer blood vessels
- Disadvantaged adolescents prone to adult crime and substance abuse problems, study finds
- Substantial costs associated with scientific misconduct should prioritize prevention efforts, experts argue
- Combined data for estimating insecticide-treated bed net coverage in Africa
- Probabilistic modeling of verbal autopsy data is best for public health decision making, study finds
- Health care system delay may increase risk of death for heart patients receiving reperfusion therapy
- Prediction model may help determine risk of critical illness after out-of-hospital emergency care
- MRSA policies differ among hospitals, study shows
- Pharmaceuticals: A market for producing 'lemons' and serious harm, analysis finds
- Birth dates, school enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates, study shows
Posted 2010-08-17:
- Scientists successfully use human induced pluripotent stem cells to treat Parkinson's in rodents
- Birth control pill equally effective for women regardless of their weight
- New microneedle antimicrobial techniques may foster medical tech innovation
- Boys and girls not as different as previously thought
- Possible cocaine addiction trigger uncovered: Protein linked to mental retardation may be controlling factor in drug's effect in the brain
- Embryonic heart paced with laser
- Discovered gene causes Kabuki syndrome: Researchers streamline DNA sequencing strategies to find rare disease genes quickly
- Probing the nanoparticle: Predicting how nanoparticles will react in the human body
- Memory researchers explain latest findings on improving the mind, stopping memory loss
- Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes
- Promising results of gene therapy to treat diseases of the eye
- Preclinical inquiry into one mutation sheds light on addiction and a birth defect
- Adversity in childhood can increase risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood, research shows
- Drugs encased in nanoparticles travel to tumors on the surface of immune-system cells
- Shape matters: The corkscrew twist of H. pylori enables it to 'set up shop' in the stomach
- Researchers assess severity of prostate cancers using magnetic resonance imaging
- Technique to preserve fertility in young women may be unsafe for patients with leukemia
- Childhood abuse, adversity may shorten life, weaken immune response among the elderly
- Lethal brain tumor's strength may be a weakness as well
- Green tea extract appears to keep cancer in check in majority of CLL patients
- Daughters caring for a parent recovering from stroke more prone to depression than sons
- Efforts to encourage disclosure of medical errors decreased claims
- Surgery can be safely performed in settings with limited resources
- Donor Risk Index does not impact outcomes on a small scale, study finds
- Adding to the strain for Indian women: Abuse by in-laws during pregnancy
- Involuntary childlessness more detrimental than originally thought, study suggests
- Rhetoric, framing efforts have little influence in same-sex marriage debate, expert says
- Car lighting makeover impacts feel of safety and style
Posted 2010-08-16:
- Carbon nanotubes form ultrasensitive biosensor to detect proteins
- SUMO works with replication protein A complex to repair DNA
- Parents' mental health more likely to suffer when a grown child struggles
Posted 2010-08-15:
- Expensive new blood pressure meds no better than generics, according to long-term data
- Scientists clarify structural basis for biosynthesis of mysterious 21st amino acid
- New approach which can help to predict neurodegenerative diseases
- Happy employees may be the key to success for organizations
Posted 2010-08-14:
- New sporadic prion protein disease: Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy shares genotype characteristics with Creutzfeldt-Jakob
- Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing
- Chronic myeloid leukemia: New lab test could identify imatinib resistance
- 'Fused' people eager to die and kill for their group, research shows
- Acetaminophen use in adolescents linked to doubled risk of asthma
- Magnetic molecular machines deliver drugs to unhealthy cells
- Selected cells from blood or bone marrow may provide a route to healing blood vessels
- Trusting people make better lie detectors
- Scientists identify DNA that may contribute to each person's uniqueness
- Elevated heart rate over time linked to significant risk of death
- Painters at significantly increased risk of bladder cancer, study finds
- Teaching robot helps children to use wheelchair
- College students exhibiting more severe mental illness, study finds
- Immune system overreaction may enable recurrent urinary tract infections
- Specific oncogene plays a role in lung squamous cell carcinoma
- Childhood memories of father have lasting impact on men's ability to handle stress
- Single neurons can detect sequences
- Mutant mouse reveals potential genetic pathway for alcoholism
- Antibiotics for the prevention of malaria
- Vascular multiple sclerosis hypothesis and treatment questioned
- New drug reduces tumor size in women with advanced hereditary ovarian or breast cancer
- Poor kidney function common among HIV-infected injection drug users
- Culture matters in suicidal behavior patterns and prevention, psychologist says
Posted 2010-08-13:
- Merlin protein found to control liver stem cells, prevent tumor development
- Neurological process for the recognition of letters and numbers explained
- Certain vena cava filters may fracture, causing potentially life-threatening complications
- Youth exposure to alcohol ads in magazines declining
- Citizen scientists discover rotating pulsar
- Immune responses during pregnancy linked to schizophrenia among offspring
- One type of stem cell creates a niche for another type in bone marrow
- Video quality less important when you're enjoying what you're watching
- Key step in body's ability to make red blood cells discovered
- Clues to gut immunity evolution: Research reveals similarities between fish and humans
- New findings further clarify breast cancer risk with hormone therapy
- Athletes undergoing tissue transplant surgery for knee damage have bright future
- Free statins with fast food could neutralize heart risk, scientists say
- Heat shock protein can restore nerve damage in diabetic mice
- Breast cancer risk varies among different progestins used in hormone replacement therapy, study finds
- For infant sleep, receptiveness more important than routine
- Inherited brain activity predicts childhood risk for anxiety, research finds
- Stem cells used to treat children with life-threatening, blistering skin disease
- Delay in surgery not likely to worsen tumors in men with low-risk prostate cancer, study finds
- 'Linc-ing' a noncoding RNA to a central cellular pathway
- Learn more in kindergarten, earn more as an adult
- Using bone marrow stem cells to treat critically ill patients on verge of respiratory failure
- Lithium shows no benefit for people with ALS
- Video study finds risky food-safety behavior more common than thought
- Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights, study shows
- Red blood cells have a tiny but effective protector -- microRNA
- High malaria transmission areas remain a problem for elimination
- Study finds similar personality types in male and female domestic violence perpetrators
- Potential treatment for pulmonary hypertension discovered
- Constant overlap: Scientists identify molecular machinery that maintains important feature of cell's spindle
- Rate of health care associated MRSA infections decreasing, study finds
- Focusing on immediate health effects may improve weight loss success
Posted 2010-08-12:
- Chemical system in brain behaves differently in cocaine addicts, scientists find
- Research links huntingtin to neurogenesis
- Distracted drivers benefit from in-car driving coach
- Proteins linked with Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases found to clump in normal aging
- Spinal muscular atrophy may also affect the heart, study finds
- Perceived intentions influence brain response
- Menstrual cramps may alter brain structure
- Advance toward earlier detection of melanoma
- Initial trials on new ovarian cancer tests exhibit extremely high accuracy
- Fixing technical problems for a good night's sleep as kids start a new school year
- Deathstalker scorpion venom could improve gene therapy for brain cancer
- Innovation could bring super-accurate sensors, crime forensics
- 'New' human adenovirus may not make for good vaccines, after all
- People who are angry pay more attention to rewards than threats
- Scientists identify new drug strategy against fragile X syndrome
- Better understanding of mapmaking in the brain
- Adult autism diagnosis by brain scan
- Walking to school could reduce stress reactivity in children, may curb risk of heart disease
- Drugs to treat cocaine abuse? Effectiveness may depend on how one uses cocaine
- Dying of cold: More heart attacks in cooler weather
- Molecular imaging identifies high-risk patients with heart disease
- Stereotyping has a lasting negative impact, new research finds
- Evolutionary surprise: Freedom of neck played major role in human brain evolution, research suggests
- Heart's sounds can help diagnose heart failure, study finds
- Optical imaging technique for angioplasty
- Motion-tracking technology reduces injuries for older adults
- Liability issues limiting recreational use of public school facilities
Posted 2010-08-11:
- New insights into how antibodies are made suggests new approach for anti-cancer drug targets
- Vitamin B3 as a novel approach to treat fungal infections
- One in four stroke patients stop taking medication within three months
- Fasting 'feelgood' factor: Holy month of Ramadan reduces volatility in markets, research finds
- Neurochip technology developed: Advances to further brain research of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
- Improved drug coverage under Medicare associated with increases in antibiotic use
- Human cells can copy not only DNA, but also RNA
- Distinguishing 'senior moments' from Alzheimer's
- New approaches could help defeat HIV
- Imaging study sheds light on neural origins of baby talk
- Brain fitness programs may help frail elderly walk faster, study suggests
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