Heavy metals in the Peak District -- evidence from bugs in blanket bogs
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Bacteria that consume heavy metals have been found in some of the most contaminated parts of the Peak District in the Southern Pennines and may be changing the pollutants into more toxic forms that could leak out into reservoirs, ...
Vive the vole!
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The gathering of data for research involving an animal usually involves invasive procedures or death for the experimental animals. But critical data may now be collected through a nonlethal procedure, according ...
AIDS may partly be the consequence of an evolutionary accident says scientist
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 01, 2008 |
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AIDS, a fatal disease in humans, may partly be the consequence of an evolutionary accident, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International ...
How HIV hides itself
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Researchers have discovered how Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, can hide itself in our cells and dodge the attention of our normal defences, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology’s ...
NASA's GLAST satellite gets twin solar panels in prep for launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Preparations for launching NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. NASA KSC's "NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report" on Thursday, ...
NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution
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NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution WASHINGTON -- This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. ...
Physical activity delays onset of Huntington's in mouse model
Apr 01, 2008 |
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The simple act of running in an exercise wheel delays the onset of some symptoms of Huntington’s disease in a mouse model of the fatal human disorder according to research published in the open-access journal BMC Neuroscience. These ...
No benefit found from continuing neuroleptic drugs in Alzheimer's patients
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Results of a randomised trial published in PLoS Medicine show no benefit in cognitive or neuropsychiatric outcomes from continuing neuroleptic drugs in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers link 11 genetic variations to type 2 diabetes
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Mathematicians at Michigan Technological University have developed powerful new tools for winnowing out the genes behind some of humanity’s most intractable diseases.
Young black men are at higher risk of suicide than their white counterparts
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A study examining suicide rates and pre-suicide clinical symptoms in people from different ethnic groups, has found that rates of suicide vary between ethnic groups with young black men aged 13 to 24 at highest risk.
Business of drug development on verge of great change
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Significant changes to drug discovery and the pharmaceutical industry currently underway will increase in the next five to 10 years, according to a top researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who is helping ...
Researchers develop new method to test for lung cancer
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have developed a new “clinicogenomic model” to accurately test for lung cancer. The model combines a specific gene expression for lung cancer as well as clinical risk ...
Want docs to treat the underserved? Make sure they train at community health centers
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University of Washington researchers have found that community health center-trained family physicians were more likely to work in underserved settings than their non-community health center-trained counterparts (64 percent ...
Climate changing gas from some surprising microbial liaisons
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The climate changing gas dimethyl sulphide (DMS) is being made by microbes at the rate of more than 200 million tonnes a year in the world’s seas, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting ...
Feathered friends favor fruity flavonoids
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Fruit-eating birds actively select fruit with the highest concentrations of antioxidants – compounds that help them maintain a healthy immune system – ecologists have found. This is the first time that a group of antioxidants ...
