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for the Week of December 12 to December 19, 2010
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Posted 2010-12-18:
- 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
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
- Plasma therapy: An alternative to antibiotics?
- Epstein-Barr: Scientists decode secrets of a very common virus that can cause cancer
- Rare silvery metal and cousin of platinum is attractive for improving flash memory chips
- 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
- New method for making tiny catalysts holds promise for air quality
- Missing molecules hold promise of therapy for pancreatic cancer: Lost microRNAs put brakes on tumors
- Fabric softener sheets repel gnats: Scientists prove Bounce sheets fend off insect pests
- '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
- IBEX makes first images of magnetotail structures, dynamic interactions occurring in space
- Increased BPA exposure linked to reduced egg quality in women
- Earthshaking possibilities may limit underground storage of carbon dioxide
- Positive mood allows human brain to think more creatively
- New hot Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered
- Novel memory-enhancing mechanism in brain
- NASA helps create a more silent night
- Allergy treatments containing aluminum may cause new allergy, study suggests
- Is Internet backbone vulnerable to cyber attack?
- Soda taxes: Weight loss benefit linked to household income
- Champion hydrogen-producing microbe
- Asthma? Allergens could be growing in your lungs
- Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread
- Unique case study on Alzheimer's disease
- Microchip harvests its own energy
- 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
- Satellites pinpoint drivers of urban heat islands in northeastern U.S.
- US EPA removes saccharin from hazardous substances listing
- Satellite data provide a new way to monitor groundwater in agricultural regions
- Power and corruption may be good for society
- Hubble spots a celestial bauble
- 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
- Tubeworms colony discovered off Cyprus
- People who believe in justice also see a victim's life as more meaningful after tragedy
- NASA discovers asteroid delivered assortment of meteorites
Posted 2010-12-15:
- Cancer: Defective cell surface 'glue' is key to tumor invasion
- Attempting to predict epileptic seizure
- Experiment hurtled into aurora above Norway by NASA rocket
- Two people receive kidney transplants with computerized matching program
- Sweet and biodegradable: Sugar and cornstarch make environmentally safer plastics
- Post-9/11 security zones blight landscape, create 'architecture of fear'
- Cassini spots potential ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan
- 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
- Geologist's discoveries resolve debate about oxygen in Earth's mantle
- Violent games not to blame for youth aggression, study suggests
- Biological computers: Genetically modified cells communicate like electronic circuits
- Transcription factor clears protein clumps in Huntington's mice models
- What 'pine' cones reveal about the evolution of flowers
- How virus triggers cervical and mouth cancer
- Engineers test underground border security system between US and Mexico
- Anatomy of a shopping spree: Pretty things make us buy more
- NASA probe sees solar wind decline en route to interstellar space
- Protein restores learning, memory in Alzheimer's mouse model
- Hot stuff: Magma at shallow depth under Hawaii
- Potential chink in armor of African sleeping sickness parasite: It's social
- New evidence that magnetism is driving force behind superconductivity
- Over long haul, money doesn’t buy happiness
- 'Fountain of youth' pill could restore aging immune system
- A benefit of flu: Protection from asthma?
- Continued death of forests predicted in southwestern US due to climate change
- Parasite and bacterium illustrate convergent evolution: Both hijack cells' 'post office'
- Cells 'feel' the difference between stiff or soft and thick or thin matrix
- Early settlers rapidly transformed New Zealand forests with fire
- Blooming jellyfish in northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean: Over-fishing, warming waters to blame
- Increased consumption of folic acid can reduce birth defects but may also be associated with colorectal cancer
- 'Array of arrays' coaxing secrets from unfelt seismic tremor events
- Tracing microbes between individuals towards personalized oral health care
- Southeastern U.S., with exception of Florida, likey to have serious water scarcity issues
- Acupuncture may help some older children with lazy eye
- Hot with decades of drought: Expectations for southwestern United States
- Ubiquitous sugar molecule could be key to repairing deep wound without scarring
- More details of plant cell-wall construction revealed
- 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
- Bioengineers discover how particles self-assemble in flowing fluids
- Ovarian cancer advances when genes are silenced
- Tracking down particulates
- Leukemia: Leukemic stem cells reversed to pre-leukemic stage by suppressing a protein
- Oldest fossils found in Cordillera Bética mountain range
- Unlawful killing of newborns soon after birth five times higher than thought, French court study suggests
Posted 2010-12-14:
- Bering Sea was ice-free and full of life during last warm period, study finds
- Scientist shows link between diet and onset of mental illness
- Highly unidirectional 'whispering gallery' microlasers created
- Three-quarters of hip fracture patients are vitamin D deficient, Indian study reveals
- Scientists take molecule's temperature
- When it comes to selecting a mate, the eyes have it
- How Saturn's moon Iapetus got its ridge
- 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
- Large uncertainty in carbon footprint calculating
- 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
- Webb telescope's actuators: Curving mirrors in space
- Stem cell treatment is effective for certain cases of acute leukemia
- Assessing the seismic hazard of the central eastern United States
- 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
- Contorting batteries: Charging makes nano-sized electrodes swell, elongate and spiral
- Dangers of exertional heat-related injuries highlighted
- Physicists make atoms and dark matter add up
- 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
- Carbon fluxes in the oceans: The strange behavior of small particles at density interfaces
- 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
- Shoo, fly! Catnip oil repels bloodsucking flies
- Genetic variants linked to increased risk of common gynecological disease
- Shrubby crops can help fuel Africa's green revolution
- Improving children's diets using behavior change video games shows promise
- Microbatteries with nanowire hearts
- Study on skin formation suggests strategies to fight skin cancer
- Fire disaster in Israel is a typical example of expected climate change effects in the Mediterranean
- Cellular protein hobbles HIV-1
- Practical, tunable, 3-D microdroplet laser developed
- Women smokers shocked into giving up habit by seeing effect on their faces, study finds
- SpaceX launches success with Falcon 9/Dragon flight
Posted 2010-12-13:
- A swarm of ancient stars
- How natural drug, abscisic acid, fights inflammation
- Tigers and polar bears are highly vulnerable to environmental change
- Synchrotron study shows how nitric oxide kills
- Tiny protozoa may hold key to world water safety
- Lowering the drinking age is unlikely to curb college binge drinking, new study finds
- Blue whale-sized mouthfuls make foraging super efficient
- 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
- 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
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