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Posted 2010-10-30:
- New insight into gaseous and dust discs around stars
- Human induced pluripotent stem cells generated to further treatments for lung disease
- Tagged narwhals track warming near Greenland
- Jekyll-Hyde microRNA binding variant linked to improved outcome in early-stage colorectal cancer
- New software eases analysis of insect in motion
- Halloween safety tips for families: Precautions you should take to keep your children safe
- Raising giant insects to unravel ancient oxygen
- Shuttle mice to boost disease research: Experiment on last flight of Discovery will probe spaceflight-induced immune-system impairment
- Low elevations hold climate surprises for mountain plants
- New test measures DNA methylation levels to predict colon cancer
- Paradise lost -- and found: Researchers unearth ancient water secrets at royal garden dig
- High level of practical intelligence a factor in entrepreneurial success
- Study links fresh Mars gullies to carbon dioxide
- Spice in curry could prevent liver damage
- Seagrass faring better than world's vertebrate species
- Low birth weight may lead to poor growth rate in children with kidney disease
- Papyrus research provides insights into 'modern concerns' of ancient world
- Women with anorexia nervosa more likely to have unplanned pregnancies, study finds
Posted 2010-10-30:
- Newly discovered gene enables fish to 'disappear'
- Bed rest can harm, instead of help, in pregnancy complications, research suggests
- Three-dimensional maps of brain wiring
- Researchers use math, maps to plot malaria elimination plan
- Troubled islands: Hurricanes, oil spill and sea level rise
- Most preschool-age children exceed daily screen time recommendations, new study suggests
- Is the shape of a genome as important as its content?
- Researchers build colony of colon cancer stem cells to test new approach to therapy
- Space radar provides a taste of Comet Hartley 2
- Cancer: Key mechanism in the control of cell motility revealed
- ‘Wireless’ humans could form backbone of new mobile networks
- Not putting the clocks back this weekend would improve health, says expert
- Is South Pole ice melting? Gravity field satellites observe Antarctic ice mass fluctuations due to El Niño
- Scientists uncover evolution of new virus, closely related to poliovirus
- Organic solvent system may improve catalyst recycling and create new nanomedicine uses
- Olive oil protects liver from oxidative stress, rat study finds
- New system for monitoring electricity use heralds greener homes and cheaper bills
- Tighter regulations recommended on food advertisements during children's TV viewing times
- Earth-sized planets may be common throughout our galaxy, NASA survey suggests
- Cancer's hiding spots revealed
- Tracking evidence of 'The Great Dying'
- Certain cancer therapies' success depends on presence of immune cell, mouse study shows
- Cone of poison: The secret behind the cone snail's venom pump
- The unhealthy ego: What can neuroscience tell us about our 'self'?
- Origin of skillful stone-tool-sharpening method pushed back more than 50,000 years
- Telomere length affects colorectal cancer risk
- Getting a grip on CO<sub>2</sub>: Researchers 'see' how to capture carbon dioxide
- Green tea of no use in breast cancer prevention, large study finds
- Better detection for diagnostics and biochemical defense
- A single interaction affects the way a child seeks information, study finds
- Brain's journey from early Internet to modern-day fiber optics: Computer program shows how brain's complex fiber tracks mature
- Insulin-creating cell research may lead to better diabetes treatment
- Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
- New strategy to kill bugs -- even those in hiding
- Making better biosensors with electron density waves
- Emotion processing in brain is influenced by color of ambient light, study suggests
- Wild Scottish sheep could help explain differences in immunity
- New approach for identifying genetic markers for common diseases
- North Sea oil recovery using carbon dioxide is possible, but time is running out, expert says
- In a challenging infant heart defect, two-thirds may have high chance of survival
- Breakdown of correlated tunneling
- Payday proximity changes consumer motives and behavior
- Wartime urologic injuries require different mindset
Posted 2010-10-29:
- Precocious galaxy cluster identified by Chandra
- Potential new treatment for deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses; May also lead to new treatments for measles, mumps and influenza
- How cancer-related proteins lose inhibition: Finding may lead to better understanding and earlier detection of breast cancer
- Kidney transplant numbers increase for elderly patients
- Everything evaporates, but how?
- Friends with cognitive benefits: Mental function improves after certain kinds of socializing
- Early sauropod dinosaur: First complete skeleton found
- Genetic variants may affect the risk of breast cancer in women with BRCA2 mutations
- Two-sided immune cell could be harnessed to shrink tumors
- Uncovering the cause of a common form of muscular dystrophy: Research team makes second critical advance
- Root of the matter: A new map shows life-saving forests' scarcity defies past estimates
- Getting older leads to emotional stability and happiness, study shows
- Trapped Mars rover finds evidence of subsurface water
- Newly discovered regulatory mechanism essential for embryo development and may contribute to cancer
- Predicting smoggiest days: Experiments improve accuracy of ozone predictions in air-quality models
- Rictor protein offers scientists a new molecular target for cancer therapies
- Scientists 'cage' genetic off switches so they can be activated by UV light
- Facebook study finds race trumped by ethnic, social, geographic origins in forging friendships
- Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought, fossils from China suggest
- B-complex vitamins may help slow progression of dementia
- Speed gun for Earth's insides to help measure mantle motion
- Tumor suppressor acts as oncogene in some cancers, researchers find
- Smaller is better in the viscous zone
- Year-long opiate substitution for drug misusers has 85 percent chance of cutting deaths
- Space buckyballs thrive, finds NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- New targeted lung cancer drug produces 'dramatic' symptom improvement; Early-stage trial shows promise against tumors driven by ALK gene alteration
- Archaeological sites threatened by rising seas: Scientists issue call to action
- Pneumonia often misdiagnosed on patient readmissions, studies find
- Getting the big picture quickly: Software edits huge images in seconds instead of hours
- Magnetic test reveals hyperactive brain network responsible for involuntary flashbacks
- Into Africa? Fossils suggest earliest anthropoids colonized Africa
- Sodas, other sugary beverages linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome
- Water could hold answer to graphene nanoelectronics
- Vancomycin is the drug of choice for treating cellulitis, study suggests
- Large-scale fish farm production offsets environmental gains, assessment finds
- Researchers find a 'liberal gene'
- Blind people perceive touch faster than those with sight
- 'Smart drug' targets new mutation, dramatically shrinks aggressive sarcoma and lung cancer; Patient's response was predicted by test for mutant protein in tumor cells
- Deadly monkeypox virus might cause disease by breaking down lung tissue
- Radiation before surgery keeps colorectal cancer from returning, study finds
- Scientists helping keep in-demand smoked salmon safe to eat, thanks to new mathematical model
- Heavy drinkers consume less over time, but not at 'normal' levels, study finds
- Making bone in the laboratory
- Highly targeted radiation technique minimizes side effects of prostate cancer treatment, study finds
- Structural genomics accelerates protein structure determination
- High erythropoietin levels indicate increased risk of death
- Current loss tracked down by magnetic fingerprint; Researchers solve the case of lost current in organic solar cells
- Two's company, but three's a crowd: Two people can learn to cooperate intuitively, but larger groups need to communicate
- Three million Californians use health plans with high out-of-pocket costs
- Study identifies flaws in Medicare prescription drug program
- Study calls for robust science for environmental labeling of food
Posted 2010-10-28:
- New evidence supports 'Snowball Earth' as trigger for early animal evolution
- Too much SP2 protein turns stem cells into 'evil twin' cancer cells
- Out of THEMIS, ARTEMIS: Earth's loss is moon's gain
- Active ingredient levels vary among red yeast rice supplements
- Variable summer rainfall in U.S. southeast linked to climate change
- Tendency to obesity starts with pre-schoolers, Canadian study finds
- Habit formation appears to be an innate ability, fine-tuned by experience
- Plugged up: Doctors see signs of worsening constipation in children
- Spiral galaxies stripped bare
- Forces for cancer spread: Genomic instability and evolutionary selection
- Tobacco and nicotine: They're good -- as a pesticide
- Not so fast -- sex differences in the brain are overblown, expert says
- Controlling individual cortical nerve cells by human thought
- Pancreatic cancers progress to lethal stage slowly, surprise finding shows
- 1000 Genomes Project publishes analysis of completed pilot phase: Produces tool for research into genetic contributors to human disease
- Newer type of radiation for prostate cancer recommended, experts say
- Small particles show big promise in beating unpleasant odors
- Emotional intelligence predicts job performance
- Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known; Discovery has broad implications for astrophysics, nuclear physics
- Breakthrough in understanding life-threatening childhood liver disease: Link to infection found in biliary atresia
- Portable breast scanner allows cancer detection in the blink of an eye
- Too much glucosamine can cause the death of pancreatic cells, increase diabetes risk, researchers find
- The new SI: Proposal for a revamped system of measurement units
- Knowledge of genetic cancer risks often dies with patients
- Tale of the headless dragonfly: Ancient struggle, preserved in amber
- New insight into links between obesity and activity in the brain
- Uranium in groundwater? 'Fracking' mobilizes uranium in marcellus shale
- Among older patients, severe sepsis associated with development of cognitive and functional disability
- Quakes don't completely shake China's environmental gains, thanks to conservation programs
- Bicarbonate adds fizz to players' tennis performance
- Kepler spacecraft takes pulse of distant stars: 'Starquakes' yield new insights about the size, age and evolution of stars
- Researchers crack genetic code of a sudden death cardiac killer
- 'Gender-bending' chemicals affect reproduction in fish, research shows
- Colorectal cancer patients with gene mutation show better response to cancer agent
- Trapping charged particles with laser light
- Poor school grades linked to increased suicide risk, Swedish study reveals
- Newly discovered snub-nosed monkey sneezes in the rain
- Following lifestyle tips could prevent almost a quarter of bowel cancer cases, study suggests
- What can country of birth tell us about childhood asthma?
- Genetic variations linked with worse outcomes with use of antiplatelet drug for cardiac procedures
- Tracking golden eagles by satellite; Impact of large-scale wind farms studied
- Sleep disturbances show clear association with work disability
- Risk of cancer due to radiation exposure in middle age may be higher than previously estimated
- How H1N1 differs from other viruses as a respiratory illness
- Third of shark and ray species are threatened, study suggests
- Haptoglobin as an early serum biomarker of virus-induced type 1 diabetes in rats
- Emissions from consumption outstrip efficiency savings in UK
- Sensitivity to bodily symptoms of anxiety may make a difference in treatment in heart patients, study suggests
- NASA Goddard delivers magnetometers for Juno mission to Jupiter
- 60 Utahns are among landmark large-scale genome sequencing study
- NIST ships first programmable AC/DC 10-volt standard
Posted 2010-10-27:
- Nature's backbone at risk: World's vertebrates face an extinction crisis, assessment finds
- High resting heart linked to shorter life expectancy in stable heart disease patients, study suggests
- Hubble data used to look 10,000 years into the future
- WHO pesticide regulations should be based on toxicity in humans, not rats, experts say
- Tornado warnings are too often ignored, researcher says
- School attendance, refusal skills combat smoking risk in youth
- Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered
- Scented consumer products shown to emit many unlisted chemicals
- Eggshells could help combat climate change, research suggests
- Consuming polyunsaturated fatty acids may lower the incidence of gum disease
- NASA's Kepler Mission changing how astronomers study distant stars
- Older people advised that taking an afternoon nap can lead to more active lives
- Stable way to store the sun's heat: Storing thermal energy in chemical could lead to advances in storage and portability
- Key molecules in multiple myeloma identified
- Study raises concern about ability of tests to predict fertility
- MicroRNAs dictate the Epstein-Barr virus' elaborate waiting game, cancer formation
- Microwave oven key to self-assembly process meeting semi-conductor industry need
- Women's choices, not abilities, keep them out of math-intensive fields
- Robotic gripper runs on coffee ... and balloons
- 'Reaper' protein strikes at mitochondria to kill cells
- Discovery opens new window on development, and maybe potential, of human egg cells
- Plant stem cells could be fruitful source of low-cost cancer drug
- Fire-Breathing Storm Systems
- How do beauty product ads affect consumer self esteem and purchasing?
- Vast amber deposit from India: New trove of fossils suggests global distribution of tropical forest ecosystems in the Eocene
- Anti-cholesterol drugs could help stave off seizures, research suggests
- Tabletop instrument makes synchrotron X-rays: Simpler and cheaper way to produce tightly focused high-energy beams
- Pregnancy outcome affected by immune system genes
- Clues about carbon dioxide patterns at end of Ice Age
- Odor coding in mammals is more complex than previously thought
- Heavy smoking in midlife may be associated with dementia in later years
- Immune cells deploy traps to catch and kill pathogens
- Mouse brain seen in sharpest detail ever
- Substantial consumption of fluoride increases chance of mild fluorosis, research finds
- How to avoid fraud in biometric identification
- Blood pressure checks performed by barbers improve hypertension control in African-American men
- As Arctic warms, increased shipping likely to accelerate climate change
- Chemotherapy plus radiation prevents bladder cancer recurrences, study finds
- Unexpected findings of lead exposure may lead to treating blindness
- Stop the bleeding: New way to restore numbers of key blood-clotting cells
- Vaccines could help what's ailing fish
- Peace of mind closes health gap for less-educated, study finds
- Haiti earthquake caused by unknown fault; Blamed fault ready to produce large earthquake
- Radiation therapy improves painful condition associated with multiple sclerosis, study finds
- Molecular guardian of cell's RNA identified
- Pathway drives spread of pediatric bone cancer
- Energy saving lamp is eco-winner: Swiss researcher evaluates environmental friendliness of light sources
- Growing crops in the city: Urban agriculture aims at helping Seattle's at-risk youth
- Continuing biodiversity loss predicted but could be slowed; Common approach urged to unify global biodiversity advice
- Fifth of world's vertebrates are currently threatened, major study finds
- Better transparency needed on medical journals' competing interests, experts say
- Reducing carbon emissions by improving global equality
- Harnessing tidal energy more efficiently than ever before
- Women still work double shifts, Spanish study finds
- Benefit of exercise in patients with hypertension has been insufficiently investigated, experts say
- Cardiac wakeup call for Canadian kids: Poor sleep patterns and lack of proper sleep could be threatening thousands of adolescents with premature heart disease and stroke
Posted 2010-10-26:
- Why does lack of sleep affect us differently? Study hints it may be in our genes
- Listeria clever at finding its way into bloodstream, causing sickness
- Pre-Columbian societies in Amazon may have been much larger and more advanced than thought
- Statin use associated with statistically significant reduction in colorectal cancer
- Scientists examine energy trends of communications equipment
- 'Unplugged' experiment detaches students from the media
- Global warming to bring more intense storms to Northern Hemisphere in winter and Southern Hemisphere year round
- Aspirin use associated with lower risk of cancer death for men with prostate cancer
- Exercising in the heat may improve athletic performance in cool and hot conditions, study suggests
- Genetic markers offer new clues about how malaria mosquitoes evade eradication
- Fighting wrinkles with lasers scientifically unraveled
- Common anxiety disorders make it tougher to quit cigarettes
- Beauty from the bottom up: Flamingos add natural 'make-up' to their feathers to attract mates
- Increasing the efficiency of stem cells
- Daily vibration may help aging bones stay healthy
- Obese children show signs of heart disease typically seen in middle-aged adults, researcher says
- New concept in microscopy: Self-reconstructing laser beams
- Plagiarism sleuths tackle full-text biomedical articles
- Tiny brained bees solve a complex mathematical problem
- Allergies and wheezing illnesses in childhood may be determined in the womb
- Crossing blood-brain barrier: New hope for new class of Alzheimer's disease drugs
- Marathons damage the hearts of less fit runners for up to three months, MRI data suggest
- Sterilizing with fluorescent lights: New surface may kill antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria with fluorescent light
- Black truffles challenge convention wisdom, exhibiting sexual reproduction between opposite mating types
- Falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second, research reveals
- Synthetic FlexBone could help speed bone transplant recovery
- Computational model of swimming fish could inspire design of robots or medical prosthetics
- Proteins regulating water retention in salt-sensitive hypertension identified
- Photovoltaic medicine: Miniature solar cells might make chemotherapy less toxic
- Kryptonite superglue improving the quality of life in heart patients recovering from surgery
- Chain reactions identified within the brain
- Gene therapy can reverse pulmonary hypertension, study suggests
- Egg meets sperm: The female side of the story
- Discovery may help scientists boost broccoli’s cancer-fighting power
- Plant-based plastics not necessarily greener than oil-based relatives, researchers find
- Eye test for neurological diseases in livestock developed
- Discovery of taste receptors in the lungs could help people with asthma breathe easier
- Gene mutation reveals new cause of rare neurological diseases
- Everglades show improvement in water quality
- Childhood cancer survivors face long-term risk of GI complications, study finds
- Coccolithophore blooms in the southwest Atlantic
- Parent-only treatment may be equally effective for children who are obese
- Bacteria gauge cold with molecular measuring stick
- Peripheral induction of Alzheimer's-like brain pathology in mice
- Malaria research begins to bite: Molecular switches pinpointed in control of malaria parasite's life cycle
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