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for the Week of December 19 to December 26, 2010
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Posted 2010-12-24:
- Preplay: How past experiences subconsciously influence behavior
- Arsenic agent shuts down two hard-to-treat cancers in animal experiments
- Emerging drug class may enhance red blood cell production in anemic patients
- Site in brain where leptin may trigger puberty identified
- Fast sepsis test can save lives
- Alzheimer's: Tau disrupts neural communication prior to neurodegeneration
- You are what your father ate, too: Paternal diet affects lipid metabolizing genes in offspring, research suggests
- Protein involved in early steps of melanoma development revealed
Posted 2010-12-24:
- Designer probiotics could reduce obesity
- How cells running on empty trigger fuel recycling
- Simple screen can help isolate virulent parts of pathogenic bacteria gene structures
- Shouldering family demands and worries bumps up angina risk
- 'Un-growth hormone' increases longevity, researchers find
- Invention could improve cancer drug delivery, lessen harmful effects of chemotherapy
- Complementary medicines can be dangerous for children, experts say
- Does equality increase status spending?
- Placebos work -- even without deception
- Breakthrough in melanoma research: Protein suppresses progression of melanoma
- Some cancer drugs may block cellular 'cross talk' but not kill cancer cells
- Measuring fatigue through the voice: Speech 'flattens' after 24 hours awake
- Discovery suggests a new way to prevent HIV from infecting human cells
- Eating less healthy fish may contribute to America's stroke belt
- Scientist uncovers switch controlling protein production
- When will runners and swimmers reach their physical limit?
- Component in common dairy foods may cut diabetes risk, study suggests
- Most common adult brain cancer linked to gene deletion, doctors say
- Photons vs. protons for treatment of spinal cord gliomas
- New annotated database sifts through mountains of sequencing data to find gene promoters
- Why do risks with human characteristics make powerful consumers feel lucky?
- Study on effects of resveratrol and quercetin on inflammation and insulin resistance
Posted 2010-12-23:
- Young female chimpanzees treat sticks as dolls: Growing evidence of biological basis for gender-specific play in humans
- Genome-wide hunt reveals links to abnormal rhythms behind sudden death, heart damage
- Immunity in emerging species of a major mosquito carrer of malaria
- Climbing Mount Everest: Noble adventure or selfish pursuit?
- Sex reversal gene: Male mice can be created without Y chromosome via ancient brain gene
- Blue-green algae tested for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Tumor cells in blood may signal worse prognosis in head and neck cancer patients
- Eating healthier means living longer
- Smoking may worsen pain for cancer patients
- Gene alteration identified that predisposes to syndrome with high risk of cancer
- Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories
- Obesity increases risk of death in severe vehicle crashes, study shows
- Biomarkers could predict death in AIDS patients with severe inflammation
- Neuroimaging helps to predict which dyslexics will learn to read
- Natural supplement, echinacea, may reduce common-cold duration by only half a day
- Pen to measure and reduce stress
- New breathing therapy reduces panic and anxiety by reversing hyperventilation
- Membership in many groups leads to quick recovery from physical challenges
- Genetic trait could triple odds of whites' susceptibility to heavy cocaine abuse
- Spread of tuberculosis in prisons increases the incidence of TB in the general population
- Smarter systems help busy doctors remember
- Use the right metaphor to get patients to enroll in clinical trials
Posted 2010-12-22:
- Cellular mechanism responsible for chronic inflammation, type 2 diabetes uncovered
- Beautiful people convey personality traits better during first impressions
- Acid suppressive medication may increase risk of pneumonia
- Training the best treatment for tennis elbow, study suggests
- Motion sickness reality in virtual world, too
- Boosting supply of key brain chemical reduces fatigue in mice
- Intensive chemotherapy can dramatically boost survival of older teenage leukemia patients
- Link between depression and inflammatory response found in mice: New treatments for mood disorders?
- Novel weight-loss therapies? Scientists identify cells in mice that can transform into energy-burning brown fat
- Electronic nose detects cancer
- Injectable and oral birth control do not adversely affect glucose and insulin levels, study shows
- About one-fifth of women, less than 7 percent of men report use of indoor tanning
- Nasal congestion can mean severe asthma
- Samples of vital human tumor tissue irradiated with ions for the first time
- Don't trouble your heart: Naturally high hemoglobin OK in dialysis patients, study suggests
- Urban planning: Better spaces for older people
Posted 2010-12-21:
- Free radicals good for you? Banned herbicide makes worms live longer
- Genetic sequencing used to identify and treat unknown disease
- Delay driving after foot or ankle surgery, experts urge
- Dementia: When the zebra loses its stripes
- Genetic basis of brain diseases: Set of proteins account for over 130 brain diseases
- Study supports gluten-free diet in potential celiac disease patients
- Warning lights mark shellfish that aren't safe to eat
- Zebrafish provide new hope for cancer treatment
- Study links emotional and neural responses to musical performance
- Fighting flu in newborns begins in pregnancy, study suggests
- The stemness of cancer cells
- Y-90 radioembolization offers promise for late-stage liver cancer
- Psychologists show how accent shapes our perception of a person
- High activity staves off pounds, especially for women
- Elevated zinc concentrations in Colorado waterway likely a result of climate change
- Faster and more reliable ovarian cancer diagnosis
- Hemodynamic responses to the mother's face in infants by near-infrared spectroscopy
- Unlocking the secrets of our compulsions
- Despite longer life spans, fewer years are disease-free
- Delaying surgical procedures increases infection risk and health care costs, new research finds
Posted 2010-12-20:
- Virus-based gene therapy for metastatic kidney cancer developed
- Soft substrate promotes pluripotent stem cell culture
- Fighter pilots' brains are 'more sensitive'
- Insight offers new angle of attack on variety of brain tumors
- Concussed high school athletes who receive neuropsychological testing sidelined longer
- You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability
Posted 2010-12-19:
- Does fluoride really fight cavities by 'the skin of the teeth?'
- Protein disables p53, drives breast cells toward cancer transition
- Drinking alcohol during a rich meal slows down digestion, but doesn't increase indigestion, study finds
- Prions mutate and adapt to host environment
- Major shift in understanding how eczema develops
- Researchers develop mouse model to help find how a gene mutation leads to autism
- Circadian rhythm: Clock-controlled genes discovered in C. elegans
- Emotional intelligence peaks as we enter our 60s, research suggests
Posted 2010-12-18:
- Where unconscious memories form
- Novel drug offers hope for early intervention in cystic fibrosis patients
- Ion channel responsible for pain identified
- Asthma disproportionately affects low-income populations
- Mom's voice plays special role in activating newborn's brain
- Gene information predicts survival time, possible new treatment options for lung-cancer patients
- Decades after childhood radiation, thyroid cancer a concern
- Popping a pill can help some alcoholics curb drinking
- Largest network of protein interactions related to Alzheimer's disease identified
- Beetroot juice could help people live more active lives
- Proximity to freeway associated with autism
- Human fetal immune system arises from entirely different source than adult immune system
- Caffeine negatively affects children: Most consume caffeine daily
- Kids got the blues? Maybe they don't have enough friends
- Immune cell plays unexpected role in autoimmune disease
- PSA test better predicts cancer in men taking prostate-shrinking drug
- Why humans are more sensitive to certain viruses: Primate immune system differences identified
- Sleep makes your memories stronger, and helps with creativity
- Cell of origin for brain tumors may predict response to therapy
- Human umbilical cord blood cells found to enhance survival and maturation of key brain cells
- Snail fever: Scientists pinpoint key defense against parasite infection
- Protein offers new clue to cause and treatment for kidney disease
- Tennis star's hospitalization for altitude sickness
Posted 2010-12-17:
- Organ size is determined by p53 protein
- Scientists discover potential strategy to improve cancer vaccines
- Opioid use associated with increased risk of adverse events among older adults
- Mothers' diets have biggest influence on children eating healthy, study suggests
- Staph bacteria: Blood-sucking superbug prefers taste of humans
- Key information about breast cancer risk and development is found in 'junk' DNA
- Exploring how partners perceive each other’s emotion during a relationship fight
- Genome code cracked for most common form of pediatric brain cancer
- Alcoholics beware: Genetic variation linked to liver cirrhosis in Caucasians
- Teacher effort is linked to difficult students' inherited traits
- Blocking the critical structure that lets cancer cells move -- their feet
- Garlic could protect against hip osteoarthritis
- Powerful biomarker panel for the early detection of breast cancer discovered
- E-cigs less dangerous than traditional cigarettes, researcher claims
- New discoveries make it harder for HIV to hide from drugs
- Rapid diagnostic test for common type of pneumonia developed
- Earthworms absorb discarded copper nanomaterials present in soil
- The key to being attractive (and looking healthy)? A good night's sleep
- Ventilation changes could double number of lungs available for transplant
- New combo lung cancer therapy improves survival over single-line treatment
- Sleep experts warn Santa Claus of health risks of flying all night
- Feast, famine and the genetics of obesity: You can't have it both ways
- Dolphin by-catch includes genetic relatives
- Link between cholesterol compound and multiple sclerosis unlikely, researchers say
- Submerging your feet in alcohol will not get you drunk
- Sticking to dietary recommendations would save 33,000 lives a year in the UK
- Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels may not affect cardiovascular mortality
- Health gap between England's richest and poorest continues
Posted 2010-12-16:
- SIDS spikes on New Year's Day
- Heart disease, stroke deaths continue to fall but costs remain high
- Proximity of authors leads to better science
- Multitude of genetic regions key to embryonic stem cell development identified
- Plasma therapy: An alternative to antibiotics?
- Epstein-Barr: Scientists decode secrets of a very common virus that can cause cancer
- Preteen conduct problems lead to teenage serious violence and delinquency, study suggests
- Compound derived from curry spice is neuroprotective against stroke and traumatic brain injury
- Breast inflammation is key to cancer growth, researchers say
- Missing molecules hold promise of therapy for pancreatic cancer: Lost microRNAs put brakes on tumors
- 'Aha' effect: New hypothesis seeks to explain the pleasures of insight
- Robot arm improves performance of brain-controlled device
- Nanoscale gene 'ignition switch' may help spot and treat cancer
- Increased BPA exposure linked to reduced egg quality in women
- Positive mood allows human brain to think more creatively
- Novel memory-enhancing mechanism in brain
- Allergy treatments containing aluminum may cause new allergy, study suggests
- Soda taxes: Weight loss benefit linked to household income
- Asthma? Allergens could be growing in your lungs
- Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread
- Unique case study on Alzheimer's disease
- More than 25% of teenagers have suffered cyber bullying in the past year
- Vaccine boosts immune system, helps prevent chronic inflammation
- High levels of 'good' cholesterol may be associated with lower risk of Alzheimer's disease
- US EPA removes saccharin from hazardous substances listing
- Smoking behind more than a third of severe rheumatoid arthritis cases
- Killing drug-resistant melanoma requires combination therapy
- New labeling method expands ability to read DNA modification
- People who believe in justice also see a victim's life as more meaningful after tragedy
Posted 2010-12-15:
- Cancer: Defective cell surface 'glue' is key to tumor invasion
- Attempting to predict epileptic seizure
- Two people receive kidney transplants with computerized matching program
- Post-9/11 security zones blight landscape, create 'architecture of fear'
- Compound with potent effects on the biological clock discovered
- Elusive neuronal targets of deep brain stimulation identified
- New signaling pathway linked to inflammatory disease discovered
- Violent games not to blame for youth aggression, study suggests
- Transcription factor clears protein clumps in Huntington's mice models
- How virus triggers cervical and mouth cancer
- Anatomy of a shopping spree: Pretty things make us buy more
- Protein restores learning, memory in Alzheimer's mouse model
- Potential chink in armor of African sleeping sickness parasite: It's social
- Over long haul, money doesn’t buy happiness
- 'Fountain of youth' pill could restore aging immune system
- A benefit of flu: Protection from asthma?
- Increased consumption of folic acid can reduce birth defects but may also be associated with colorectal cancer
- Tracing microbes between individuals towards personalized oral health care
- Acupuncture may help some older children with lazy eye
- Ubiquitous sugar molecule could be key to repairing deep wound without scarring
- 2009 H1N1 vaccine safe and induces robust immune response in people with asthma
- Smartphone technology improves prosthetic limbs
- Strength training for seniors provides cognitive function, economic benefits
- Ovarian cancer advances when genes are silenced
- Leukemia: Leukemic stem cells reversed to pre-leukemic stage by suppressing a protein
- Unlawful killing of newborns soon after birth five times higher than thought, French court study suggests
Posted 2010-12-14:
- Scientist shows link between diet and onset of mental illness
- Three-quarters of hip fracture patients are vitamin D deficient, Indian study reveals
- Researchers discover way to block neurodegeneration in an adult form of Fragile X syndrome
- Right or left handling at birth: What impact does it have on development?
- Osteoporosis drug reduces bone loss, tumor size in oral cancer
- Children who don’t like fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to be constipated
- More fruits and vegetables unlikely to protect against cancer, study suggests
- On, off, on, off: The circuitry of insulin-releasing cells
- Stem cell treatment is effective for certain cases of acute leukemia
- Apartment-dwelling children in nonsmoking units still exposed
- Stem cells turned into complex, functioning intestinal tissue in lab
- Seizure generation in brain is isolated from surrounding brain regions
- Dangers of exertional heat-related injuries highlighted
- Digital video recorders do not change shopping behavior, study suggests
- Brain's inherent ability to focus learning discovered
- Whey supplements lower blood pressure: Low-cost protein gets big results in people with elevated blood pressure
- Pomegranate juice components could stop cancer from spreading, research suggests
- Moderate drinking benefits kidney transplant recipients, study suggests
- New study raises questions about genetic testing of newborns
- Type 1 diabetes: Grow your own transplant? Human testes cells turned into insulin-producing islet cells
- New mechanism links cellular stress and brain damage
- Genetic variants linked to increased risk of common gynecological disease
- Improving children's diets using behavior change video games shows promise
- Study on skin formation suggests strategies to fight skin cancer
- Cellular protein hobbles HIV-1
- Women smokers shocked into giving up habit by seeing effect on their faces, study finds
Posted 2010-12-13:
- How natural drug, abscisic acid, fights inflammation
- Synchrotron study shows how nitric oxide kills
- Lowering the drinking age is unlikely to curb college binge drinking, new study finds
- Drug-resistant HIV genes identified
- New characteristics of premature aging protein discovered
- Higher mobility while hospitalized linked to reduced stays: A few steps could lead to big gains for hospitalized seniors
- 'Green' water treatments may not kill bacteria in large building cooling systems
- 'White-noise' therapy alone not enough to curb tinnitus
Posted 2010-12-12:
- Thought for food: Imagining food consumption reduces actual consumption
- Drug combination shows promise for newly diagnosed blood cancer patients, study finds
- Personalized molecular therapy shows promising results for people with advanced lung cancer
- Computer-based program may help relieve some ADHD symptoms in children
- When to end a run to avoid injury: Runners change form when running exhausted
- Double block of blood vessels to starve cancerous tumors
- New risk factors for brain metastases in breast cancer patients uncovered
- Buprenorphine treatment produces improved outcome for babies born addicted
Posted 2010-12-11:
- Trio of drugs may combat 'triple negative' breast cancer
- Immune system changes linked to inflammatory bowel disease revealed
- Boxing is risky business for the brain
- Unraveling Alzheimer's: Simple small molecules could untangle complex disease
- There's a new 'officer' in the infection control army
- Doctors don't need to fear red heads
- Twin study helps scientists link relationship among ADHD, reading, math
- Cholera strain evolves new mechanism for causing disease
- New hybrid, precision heart procedures to help stop deadly arrhythmias
- Accurate method for detecting dangerous levels of fluoride
- Living in certain neighborhoods increases the chances older men and women will develop cancer, study finds
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy is ultimately a stem cell disease, researchers find
- Cholera strain in Haiti matches bacteria from south Asia
- Hospital shootings rare, but rate of other assults high, researchers find
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