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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
- NASA's next Mars rover to zap rocks with laser
- Emerging drug class may enhance red blood cell production in anemic patients
- Heat shock protein drives yeast evolution
- Most challenging Christmas plastic wrapping could be recycled with new technology
- Pterygotid sea scorpions: No terror of the ancient seas?
- Site in brain where leptin may trigger puberty identified
- Fast sepsis test can save lives
- Alzheimer's: Tau disrupts neural communication prior to neurodegeneration
- Six years after the 2004 tsunami disaster, technical setup of the early warning sysem completed
- How to delay Christmas tree needle loss
- First high-temp spin-field-effect transistor created
- You are what your father ate, too: Paternal diet affects lipid metabolizing genes in offspring, research suggests
- Mars movie: I'm dreaming of a blue sunset
- Protein involved in early steps of melanoma development revealed
- Weird and wonderful plant and fungal discoveries of 2010
- Learning from leftovers: A history drawn from turkey bones
Posted 2010-12-24:
- Growing hypoxic zones reduce habitat for billfish and tuna
- 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
- Contract marks new generation for Deep Space Network
- 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
- Better control of building blocks for quantum computer
- Complementary medicines can be dangerous for children, experts say
- A methane-metal marriage: Scientists insert metal atoms into methane gas molecules
- Does equality increase status spending?
- Placebos work -- even without deception
- Breakthrough in melanoma research: Protein suppresses progression of melanoma
- Researchers train software to help monitor climate change
- Some cancer drugs may block cellular 'cross talk' but not kill cancer cells
- Cornstarch might have ended the Gulf spill agony sooner
- Measuring fatigue through the voice: Speech 'flattens' after 24 hours awake
- New fossil site in China shows long recovery of life from the largest extinction in Earth's history
- Discovery suggests a new way to prevent HIV from infecting human cells
- Cassini marks holidays with dramatic views of Saturn's moon Rhea
- 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
- Cassini finishes sleigh ride by Saturn's icy moons
- 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
- New single-pixel photo camera developed
- Immunity in emerging species of a major mosquito carrer of malaria
- Muscle filaments make mechanical strain visible
- 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
- A robot with finger-tip sensitivity
- Tumor cells in blood may signal worse prognosis in head and neck cancer patients
- New ideas enhance efficiency of wind turbines
- Eating healthier means living longer
- Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
- Smoking may worsen pain for cancer patients
- Discovery of new molecule could lead to more efficient rocket fuel
- Gene alteration identified that predisposes to syndrome with high risk of cancer
- Toxin-laden nectar poses problems for honeybees
- Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories
- Africa has two elephant species, genetic analysis confirms
- Obesity increases risk of death in severe vehicle crashes, study shows
- Laser twinkles in rare color
- Biomarkers could predict death in AIDS patients with severe inflammation
- Long-lasting chemicals threaten the environment and human health
- Singing fish: Choir of electric fish makes debut in interactive 'scale' exhibit at Netherlands festival
- 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
- Sea-level study brings good and bad news to Chesapeake Bay
- Membership in many groups leads to quick recovery from physical challenges
- Universe's most massive stars can form in near isolation, new study finds
- Genetic trait could triple odds of whites' susceptibility to heavy cocaine abuse
- New Miscanthus hybrid discovery in Japan could open doors for biofuel industry
- 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:
- Being good moms couldn't save the woolly mammoth
- Cellular mechanism responsible for chronic inflammation, type 2 diabetes uncovered
- Biomagnification of nanomaterials in simple food chain demonstrated
- Fruit fly study digs deeper into poorly understood details of forming embryos
- Engineers take plasmon lasers out of deep freeze
- Beautiful people convey personality traits better during first impressions
- Meat-eating dinosaurs not so carnivorous after all
- Acid suppressive medication may increase risk of pneumonia
- New collage of nearby galaxies from WISE space telescope
- Training the best treatment for tennis elbow, study suggests
- Electric current moves magnetic vortices: With the help of neutrons, physicists discover new ways to save data
- Motion sickness reality in virtual world, too
- Strange new twist: Researchers discover Möbius symmetry in metamaterials
- Boosting supply of key brain chemical reduces fatigue in mice
- Mexico quake studies uncover surprises for California
- Intensive chemotherapy can dramatically boost survival of older teenage leukemia patients
- Raindrops reveal how a wave of mountains moved south across the country
- 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
- Globalization burdens future generations with biological invasions, study finds
- Injectable and oral birth control do not adversely affect glucose and insulin levels, study shows
- NASA spacecraft provides travel tips for Mars rover
- About one-fifth of women, less than 7 percent of men report use of indoor tanning
- Ocean acidification changes nitrogen cycling in world seas
- 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
- Comprehensive wind info collected to improve renewable energy
- 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
- Water pathways from the deep sea to volcanoes
- Delay driving after foot or ankle surgery, experts urge
- Satellites give an eagle eye on thunderstorms
- 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
- Scientists identify a spontaneously chain-reacting molecule
- Study links emotional and neural responses to musical performance
- Trace amounts of water created oceans on Earth and other terrestrial planets, study suggests
- Fighting flu in newborns begins in pregnancy, study suggests
- The stemness of cancer cells
- Y-90 radioembolization offers promise for late-stage liver cancer
- A 'spin ratchet' paves the way for spin computers: New electronic structure for generating spin current
- Psychologists show how accent shapes our perception of a person
- Three billion-year-old genomic fossils deciphered
- 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
- Efficient phosphorus use by phytoplankton
- 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
- Organic electronic ratchets doing work
- Delaying surgical procedures increases infection risk and health care costs, new research finds
- Pathogenic attacks on host plants examined
- Overindulgence is not the green option
Posted 2010-12-20:
- First measurement of magnetic field in Earth's core
- Virus-based gene therapy for metastatic kidney cancer developed
- Construction of the world's largest neutrino observatory completed: Antarctica's IceCube
- Soft substrate promotes pluripotent stem cell culture
- Which methods of heating are most efficient?
- Fighter pilots' brains are 'more sensitive'
- Unprecedented topographic map of the Moon
- Insight offers new angle of attack on variety of brain tumors
- How do you cut a nanotube? Lots of compression
- Concussed high school athletes who receive neuropsychological testing sidelined longer
- How plants counteract against the shade of larger neighbours
- You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability
Posted 2010-12-19:
- Rise in oxygen drove evolution of animal life 550 million years ago
- Does fluoride really fight cavities by 'the skin of the teeth?'
- Wind turbines help crops by channelling beneficial breezes over nearby plants
- Protein disables p53, drives breast cells toward cancer transition
- Using digitized books as 'cultural genome,' researchers unveil quantitative approach to humanities
- 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
- As earthquakes take their toll, engineers look at enhancing building designs
- 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
- Total lunar eclipse and winter solstice coincide on Dec. 21
- Ion channel responsible for pain identified
- Small islands in the Pacific: Duel between freshwater and sea water
- 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
- More than 100 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2010
- Decades after childhood radiation, thyroid cancer a concern
- The birth of time: Quantum loops describe the evolution of the Universe
- Online access with a fingerprint
- Looking back in time to see stars bursting into life
- 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
- An answer to green energy could be in the air
- 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
- Nanotechnology: Tiny channels carry big information
- Molecular fossil: Crystal structure shows how RNA, one of biology's oldest catalysts, is made
- Science's breakthrough of the year: The first quantum machine
- Kids got the blues? Maybe they don't have enough friends
- Tiny 3-D images shed light on origin of Earth's core
- Immune cell plays unexpected role in autoimmune disease
- High-tech software, umanned planes allow scientists to keep tabs on Arctic seals
- 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
- Cyclone lasting more than five years is detected on Saturn
- 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
- How pollinators sculpt flowers
- Holography with electrons
- Protein offers new clue to cause and treatment for kidney disease
- Faster method of engineering zinc-finger nucleases developed
- Imaging of Alfvén waves and fast ions in a fusion plasma
- 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
- Single quantum dot nanowire photodetectors
- Opioid use associated with increased risk of adverse events among older adults
- How foot-and-mouth disease virus begins infection in cattle
- Mothers' diets have biggest influence on children eating healthy, study suggests
- Age doesn't matter: New genes are as essential as ancient ones
- Staph bacteria: Blood-sucking superbug prefers taste of humans
- Physicist developing, improving designer optical materials
- Key information about breast cancer risk and development is found in 'junk' DNA
- Unique orangutan reintroduction project under imminent threat
- Exploring how partners perceive each other’s emotion during a relationship fight
- Computer memory takes a spin: Physicists read data after storing them in atomic nuclei for 112 seconds
- Genome code cracked for most common form of pediatric brain cancer
- Newly discovered phase helps explain materials' ability to convert waste heat to electricity
- Alcoholics beware: Genetic variation linked to liver cirrhosis in Caucasians
- Restoration activities speed seagrass recovery in the Florida Keys
- Teacher effort is linked to difficult students' inherited traits
- Loss of Arctic ice may promote hybrid marine mammals
- 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
- Geologist develops improved seismic model for monitoring nuclear explosions in Middle East
- E-cigs less dangerous than traditional cigarettes, researcher claims
- Hot plasma explosions inflate Saturn's magnetic field
- 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
- Ancient forest emerges mummified from the Arctic: Clues to future warming impact
- Ventilation changes could double number of lungs available for transplant
- Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change
- New combo lung cancer therapy improves survival over single-line treatment
- Seaweed as biofuel? Metabolic engineering makes it a viable option
- Sleep experts warn Santa Claus of health risks of flying all night
- Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body
- 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
- NASA scientific balloons to return to flight
- Submerging your feet in alcohol will not get you drunk
- How hard are we pushing the land? Plant consumption rising significantly as population grows and economies develop
- Sticking to dietary recommendations would save 33,000 lives a year in the UK
- Study improves understanding of method for creating multi-metal nanoparticles
- Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels may not affect cardiovascular mortality
- Protecting the Amazon rainforest: Extensive inventory forms basis for legislation governing when trees in the Brazilian rainforests can be logged
- Health gap between England's richest and poorest continues
Posted 2010-12-16:
- Similarities in the embryonic development of various animal species are also found at molecular level
- SIDS spikes on New Year's Day
- NASA's Odyssey spacecraft sets exploration record on Mars
- Heart disease, stroke deaths continue to fall but costs remain high
- 'Green genes' in yeast may boost biofuel production by increasing stress tolerance
- Proximity of authors leads to better science
- Polar bears still on thin ice, but cutting greenhouse gases now can avert extinction, experts say
- Multitude of genetic regions key to embryonic stem cell development identified
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