Energy-saving bacteria resist antibiotics
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Bacteria save energy by producing proteins that moonlight, having different roles at different times, which may also protect the microbes from being killed. The moonlighting activity of one enzyme from the tuberculosis bacterium ...
A virtuous cycle: Safety in numbers for riders
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It seems paradoxical but the more people ride bicycles on our city streets, the less likely they are to be injured in traffic accidents.
Monitoring immune responses in disease
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A recent study (doi:10.1016/j.clim.2008.06.009) published in Clinical Immunology, the official journal of the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), describes a new method enabling the detection of multiple parameters of sin ...
Cholesterol drugs lower risk of stroke for elderly too
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Elderly people who take a cholesterol drug after a stroke or mini-stroke lower their risk of having another stroke just as much as younger people in the same situation, according to research published in the September 3, ...
Link between nationality and cervical cancer
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Gynaecological screening tests for cervical cancer have been available to all women in Sweden for almost four decades. Despite this, many immigrant women have a higher risk of developing the disease than Swedish-born women, ...
With over-weight kids the norm, parents are asking how much a toddler should eat
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Where does the American tendency to become overweight begin? With 20 percent of Montana high school students being overweight and 10 percent of those qualifying as obese, the question is as relevant in Montana ...
Safer skies for the flying public
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University of Texas professor Constantine Caramanis and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on a air traffic decision-making system that rapidly adapts its flight recommendations ...
Participating in religion may make adolescents from certain races more depressed
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One of the few studies to look at the effects of religious participation on the mental health of minorities suggests that for some of them, religion may actually be contributing to adolescent depression. Previous research ...
Spending time in the intensive care unit can traumatize kids
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Children who spend time in the intensive care unit of a hospital can be traumatized by the experience even months after returning home. Dr. Janet Rennick from the Research Institute of The Montreal Children's Hospital of ...
What a sleep study can reveal about fibromyalgia
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Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative quantitative analysis, signal-processing technology and computer algorithms to work ...
Scientists use bacteria to pinpoint chloride toxins
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Scientists have studied the sensor with which bacteria detect chloride compounds, many of which can be carcinogenic or dangerous to the environment, and now hope to speed up identification of these dangerous toxins from weeks ...
New methods identify and manipulate 'newborn' cells in animal model of Parkinson's disease
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When cells in the brain are lost through disease or injury, neighboring cells begin to divide and multiply, but only a few areas in the brain are able to produce new neurons. Patients with Parkinson's disease suffer degeneration ...
Yerkes researchers create animal model of chronic stress
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In an effort to better understand how chronic stress affects the human body, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, have created ...
Probably wireless
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) used to detect and report events including hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires and for military surveillance and antiterrorist activities are prone to subterfuge. In the International Jo ...
Hurricane Katrina increased mental and physical health problems in New Orleans by up to 3 times
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Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to research published in ...
