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Posted 2010-12-11:
- Thought for food: Imagining food consumption reduces actual consumption
- Drug combination shows promise for newly diagnosed blood cancer patients, study finds
- Wind and water have shaped Schiaparelli impact basin on Mars
- 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
- Neutron stars and string theory in a lab: Chilled atoms give clues to deep space and particle physics
- Double block of blood vessels to starve cancerous tumors
- Bering Sea chill yields fatter plankton, pollock diet changes
- New risk factors for brain metastases in breast cancer patients uncovered
- Simulations aim to unlock nature's process of biomineralization
- Buprenorphine treatment produces improved outcome for babies born addicted
Posted 2010-12-11:
- Bizarre reptile challenges notion of crocodiles as 'living fossils'
- Trio of drugs may combat 'triple negative' breast cancer
- WISE sees an explosion of infrared light
- Immune system changes linked to inflammatory bowel disease revealed
- Details of microbe's extraordinary maintenance and repair system 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
- Odyssey orbiter nears Martian longevity record
- Doctors don't need to fear red heads
- 35,000 new species ‘sitting in cupboards’
- Twin study helps scientists link relationship among ADHD, reading, math
- Ice-age reptile extinctions provide a glimpse of likely responses to human-caused climate change
- Cholera strain evolves new mechanism for causing disease
- Winter treat for skywatchers as Geminid meteors sparkle in December sky
- 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
- World's smallest battery: Real-time observation of nanowire anode to help improve lithium batteries
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy is ultimately a stem cell disease, researchers find
- Massive gene loss linked to pathogen's stealthy plant-dependent lifestyle
- Cholera strain in Haiti matches bacteria from south Asia
- Bioengineers develop bacterial strain to increase ethanol biofuel production
- Hospital shootings rare, but rate of other assults high, researchers find
- Cloud 'feedback' affects global climate and warming
- Gene that causes some cases of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis discovered
- Genome of barley disease reveals surprises
- Aortic aneurysm treatable with asthma drugs, Swedish study finds
- Seeing the invisible: New 'CSI tool' visualizes bloodstains and other substances
- Nighttime sleep found beneficial to infants' skills
- New insights into formation of Earth, the Moon, and Mars
- Gene knockout shows potential for diabetes-related heart failure
- Gene hunters tackle crop diseases
- Cutting dietary phosphate doesn't save dialysis patients' lives, study suggests
- Perfectly needled nonwoven
- Teleworkers more satisfied than office-based employees
Posted 2010-12-10:
- Our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak
- Impaired clearance, not overproduction of toxic proteins, may underlie Alzheimer’s disease
- Stem cells: A 'stitch in time' could help damaged hearts
- For some, laparoscopic technique not always better
- Stricter testing for federal ground beef program may not lead to safer meat
- Babies born to depressed moms have higher levels of stress hormones, decreased muscle tone
- Politics and eye movement: Liberals focus their attention on 'gaze cues' much differently than conservatives do
- Estrogen alone is effective for reducing breast cancer risk, study finds
- Elusive spintronics success could lead to single chip for processing and memory
- Common genetic influences for ADHD and reading disability
- Double-edged sword of dominance: Top chimps tend to suffer from more parasites
- Online photos may reveal your friendships
- Viable female and male mice from two fathers produced using stem cell technology
- Drug prevents post-traumatic stress syndrome, study suggests
- Greenland ice sheet flow driven by short-term weather extremes, not gradual warming, research reveals
- Weightlifting slashes lymphedema risk after breast cancer treatment, study suggests
- Physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector
- Toddlers with autism show improved social skills following targeted intervention
- Astronomers discover, image new planet in planetary system very similar to our own
- Influenza virus strains show increasing drug resistance and ability to spread
- Fleshing out the life histories of dead whales
- Children who attend group child care centers get more infections then, but fewer during school years
- Redrawing the map of Great Britain based on human interaction
- 'Secret ingredient' in religion makes people happier
- Fewer synapses, more efficient learning: Molecular glue wires the brain
- Parkinson's drug could treat restless leg syndrome, study suggests
- Bacteria to test water lines: Contained bacteria change color when they contact toxins
- Sports participation does not guarantee that children get enough physical activity
- Mastermind steroid found in plants
- Teens who perpetrate dating violence also likely to perpetrate violence involving siblings or peers
- Black holes and warped space revealed by powerful new array of radio telescopes
- Dynamics of chaperone protein critical in rescuing brains of Alzheimer's mice from neuron damage
- Eutrophication makes toxic cyanobacteria more toxic
- Personalized vaccine for lymphoma patients extends disease-free survival by nearly 2 years
- Study assesses nuclear power assumptions
- Mindfulness-based therapy helps prevent depression relapse
- 'Greener' climate prediction shows plants slow warming
- How do neural stem cells decide what to be -- and when?
- How do DNA components resist damaging UV exposure?
- Role of stem cell transplant procedures for blood cancer treatment
- Fledgling ecosystem in former open-pit coal mine in Germany lets scientists observe how soil, flora and fauna develop
- Sex, race, place of residence influence high blood pressure incidence
Posted 2010-12-09:
- Astronomers open new window into early universe: Epoch of Reionization
- Cranberry juice not effective against urinary tract infections, study suggests
- Parents' influence on children's eating habits is limited
- Different origins discovered for medulloblastoma tumor subtypes
- Extending the life of oil reserves: Greener, cheaper more efficient oil extraction made possible
- Widening our perceptions of reading and writing difficulties
- 'Logic gates' made to program bacteria as computers
- Autism treatment: Researchers identify possible treatment for impaired sociability
- Lost civilization under Persian Gulf?
- Computer model for projecting severity of flu season
- So you think you can solve a cosmology puzzle? Scientists challenge other scientists with a series of galaxy puzzles
- Pain: What Zen meditators don't think about won't hurt them
- Theoretical breakthrough: Generating matter and antimatter from nothing
- Are depressed people too clean?
- Soaring is better than flapping for birds big and small
- New test shows promise for accurate early diagnosis of Turner syndrome
- Pure nanotube-type growth edges toward the possible
- Good grades in high school lead to better health, study suggests
- Astronomers detect first carbon-rich exoplanet
- Accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer with ultrasound
- Blueberries and other purple fruits to ward off Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's
- Low and high vitamin D levels in older women associated with increased likelihood of frailty
- Duelling dipoles: In search of a new theory of photosynthetic energy transfer
- New observations of exploding stars reveal pauses, flickers and flares not reliably seen before
- New blood test could detect heart disease in people with no symptoms
- Stem cell advance a step forward for treatment of brain diseases
- Second-hand smoke increases risk of invasive meningococcal disease in children
- Chemical coarsening: How the big get bigger
- Feeling chills in response to music
- How flowering time of plants can be controlled
- Vitamin supplements reduce deaths caused by measles and diarrhea, study finds
- Tiny laser light show illuminates quantum computing
- Use of low-dose aspirin associated with improved performance of test for detecting colorectal cancer
- Nanoparticle gives antimicrobial ability to fight Listeria longer
- Providing incentives to cooperate can turn swords into ploughshares
- Social relationships in animals have a genetic basis, new research reveals
- Desensitization approaches effective against hayfever-like allergies, research suggests
- New way of seeing discovered: Melanopsin-expressing cells sense brightness
- New formulation of Leishmaniasis drug shown to be stable, effective in tropical temperatures
- Creating 'Living' Buildings
- Music relieves stress of assisted breathing
- Using chaos to model geophysical phenomena
- Tobacco cessation medication may reduce hospitalization for heart attacks
- Ginseng just got better -- not as bitter
- Even with helicopter EMS, hospital transfer can delay treatment for heart attacks
- Soil needs decades to recover from a spill
- People in jobs traditionally held by the other sex are judged more harshly for mistakes
- Scientists forecast new atom smashers to keep Europe leading in nuclear physics
- Trauma surgeon leads call to action for pediatric applied trauma research network
- Scientists map what factors influence the news agenda
- Engaging pediatricians and primary care physicians in childhood obesity prevention and intervention
- Youth report favorable impressions of community street outreach workers
- Climate scientist warns world of widespread suffering if further climate change is not forestalled
- Rapid population aging to raise critical challenges for Asian governments
- MOTIVE case studies look for the best adaptive management options
- Ultra-thin solar blind extreme ultraviolet imager developed
Posted 2010-12-08:
- Plants 'remember' winter to bloom in spring with help of special molecule
- Small molecule may disarm enemy of cancer-fighting p53
- Metabolism models may explain why Alzheimer's disease kills some neuron types first
- 'Vast majority' of acoustic tumor patients benefit from surgery, study suggests
- Scientists map changes in genetic networks caused by DNA damage
- Including smoking cessation program with treatment for PTSD shows higher rate of quitting
- Doctor Who's trusty invention is anything but sci-fi: Sonic screwdriver to solve future DIY woes
- Bioactive peptides found to promote wound healing
- Pacific sperm whales exposed to PAHs, pesticides, other pollutants
- IV drug could be major advance in halting acute seizures in newborns
- Milestone in fight against deadly disease: 500 protein structures mapped and solved
- Teens get more ear infections when someone smokes at home
- Life found thriving in porous rock deep beneath the seafloor
- Novel compounds show early promise in treatment of Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's
- Butter contaminated by PBDE flame retardant
- Mechanism that controls cell movement linked to tumors becoming more aggressive
- Double vision: New instrument casts its eyes to the sky
- Sensitive testosterone detector linked to less aggression
- Drugs can pass through human body almost intact: New concerns for antibiotic resistance, pollution identified
- Stroke damage reversed by jumpstarting nerve fibers
- Ultraviolet light helps skin cancer cells thrive, researchers report
- Combining exenatide with insulin may be 'best result ever' for diabetes patients, study suggests
- Using new materials to make more reliable nanoelectromechanical systems
- Sleep deprivation eliminates fear generalization: New way to treat PTSD?
- Self-healing autonomous material comes to life
- Flu vaccine grown in bacteria works like vaccine grown in chicken eggs
- Exposure to mobile phones before and after birth linked to kids' behavioral problems
- Mammogram sensitivity depends on menstrual cycle, experts recommend
- Warring Greeks found peace in ancient Egypt: Researcher uncovers origins of Greek trade city in Egypt's Nile delta region
- Exposure to more diverse objects speeds word learning in tots
- Daily aspirin at low doses reduces cancer deaths, study finds -- but caution urged
- Decoding the disease that perplexes: Scientists discover new target for multiple sclerosis
- Shy trout size it up
- Breaching the breech protocol: Researcher advocates returning to old-school methods for delivering breech babies
- Power grid of the future saves energy
- Why married men tend to behave better
- Plants engineered to produce new drugs
- Mechanism responsible for spreading biofilm infections identified
- Ravenous foreign pests threaten U.S. national forests
- Small-molecule inhibitors effectively targeted active colon cancer enzyme
- Life-saving in the bacterial world: How Campylobacter rely on Pseudomonas to infect humans
- K-12 computer science education declining
- Nanosatellite successfully ejected from free-flying microsatellite in space
- New microscopic life aboard the RMS Titanic
- Spontaneous mutations important cause of mental retardation, research finds
- Measuring air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in the open ocean
- High-dose, short-course radiation for prostate cancer does not increase side effects, study finds
- Slurry sanitation using heat, a new, simple, low-energy method
- For elderly, even short falls can be deadly; Adults 70-plus three times as likely to die following low-level falls
- Diners may be willing to pay more to eat at 'green' restaurants
- School-based program helps adolescents cope with asthma
- Private insurers control health care spending better than Medicare, study suggests
- US healthcare: Medicaid-funded ADHD treatment for children misses the mark, experts argue
- Lower power consumption for electronics: Thin film packaged MEMS resonator with industry record Q factor and low bias voltage
Posted 2010-12-07:
- Threshold sea surface temperature for hurricanes and tropical thunderstorms is rising
- Secondhand smoke exposure increases risk of hearing loss
- LouseBuster: Head lice shrivel with chemical-free warm-air device
- Some kids with spinal cord injury may be overlooked for walking rehabilitation
- Carbon dioxide-free energy can meet the world’s energy needs in 2050, Danish report finds
- A team with a shared lousy temper is better at mental tasks
- Pregnant mother's diet impacts infant's sense of smell, alters brain development
- Cultured kidney cell layer is a step towards improved dialysis
- Oh deer: Protecting this year’s Christmas tree crop
- Overactive FTO gene does cause overeating and obesity
- Change in temperature uncovers genetic cross talk in plant immunity; Discovery sheds light on how plants fight off bacterial infections
- Adolescents at risk for alcohol abuse show decreased brain activation
- First horned dinosaur from South Korea discovered
- A flu vaccine that lasts?
- Mystery of repetitive DNA segments unraveled
- Heart attack risk increases rapidly after rheumatoid arthritis is diagnosed
- Your Web surfing history is accessible (without your permission) via JavaScript
- Imitating someone's accent makes it easier to understand them
- Chemists design molecule that responds to stimuli
- Faster-growing E. coli strain suitable for gene therapy or vaccine use
- Killing salmonella and E. coli on fresh produce with half the normal food-irradiation levels
- Season, time of day appear to predict higher UV levels, need for sun safety measures among skiers
- Using earthworms to process hazardous materials containing heavy metals
- Medieval England twice as well off as today’s poorest nations
- Season of birth may have long-term effects on personality, study suggests
- New possibility of reversing damage caused by multiple sclerosis
- Carbon monoxide trapped in ice cores reveals unexpected trends regarding burning biomass
- 'Shotgun' method allows scientists to dissect cells' sugar coatings
- Energy use in the media cloud: 1,175 gigawatts by 2030, experts predict
- It’s not the size of the salamander, it’s the size of the fight in the salamander
- Brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique
- Over-reactive immune system kills young adults during pandemic flu
- Stripes are back in season on Jupiter
- Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer may offer better quality-of-life, study suggests
- Light touch brightens nanotubes: Scientists find a little ozone goes a long way for fluorescence
- Racing against age: Health impairment primarily due to bad lifestye habits -- not aging, researchers argue
- Northern wildfires threaten runaway climate change, study reveals
- Earliest brain changes linked to Alzheimer's genetic risk point to possible prevention therapies
- Fitting a biological nanopore into an artificial one, new ways to analyze DNA
- Age-related hearing loss and folate in the elderly
- Satellite tracking campaign tests European abilities
- Preventing physician medication mix-ups by reporting them
- 'Clueless' housekeeping genes are activated randomly, study finds
- Link between folic acid supplementation in pregnancy, DNA methylation and birth weight in newborn babies
- El Nino: Better understanding of long-term changes in climate system
- Surprising AIDS-treatment benefits, prevention strategy in epidemic regions of Africa; Anti-retroviral therapy yields 'Lazarus effect'
- Sows ears and silk purses: Packing more flavor into modern pork
- Information technology could improve prevention, treatment of depression
Posted 2010-12-06:
- Heat helped hasten life's beginnings on Earth, research suggests
- Widely used arthritis pill protects against skin cancer, study suggests
- How infants compare quantities
- Cancer drugs offer new hope for Crohn's disease and sarcoidosis
- Smashing fluids: The physics of flow
- Low-status leaders are ignored, researchers find; How a leader is picked impacts whether others will follow
- Biologist tracks spiders' eyes to learn how tiny brains process information
- Early detection is possible for prion diseases, study suggests
- Protein essential for cell division in blood-forming stem cells discovered
- Protein protects cancer cells from oxidative stress
- Gold and silver nano baubles
- People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level, Spanish study finds
- 'Brain maps' created for how humans reach
- New approach to blocking malaria transmission developed
- Electronic cigarettes are unsafe and pose health risks, study finds
- Lower occurrence of atopic dermatitis in children whose mothers were exposed to farm animals and cats during pregnancy
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