Archive: 12/03/2007
Europe to launch a brain research project
The European Science Foundation said it will propose a comprehensive mental health research effort of a size similar to that of the Human Genome Project.
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Stop & Shop cookie recall is updated
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an update of a recall of Luigi's Bakery cookies sold by Stop & Shop supermarkets in New York in Connecticut.
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Puzzling results from HIV vaccine trial
A potential HIV vaccine that recently failed a clinical trial in the United States may increase some people's chance of catching the virus that causes AIDS.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Older moms face greater health risks
The increasing number of women postponing childbirth until their 40s face greater risks during pregnancy and delivery, a California fertility specialist says.
Dec 03, 2007 |
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CU-Boulder technology used to identify unexpected bacteria in cystic fibrosis patients
Molecular technology developed by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor to probe extreme life forms in undersea hydrothermal vents has been used to identify unexpected bacteria strains in the lung fluid of Denver ...
Biology /
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Replacing the cells lost in Parkinson disease
Parkinson disease (PD) is caused by the progressive degeneration of brain cells known as dopamine (DA) cells. Replacing these cells is considered a promising therapeutic strategy. Although DA cell–replacement therapy by transplantation ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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A really inconvenient truth: Divorce is not green
The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Toll of climate change on world food supply could be worse than thought
Global agriculture, already predicted to be stressed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Fossils excavated from Bahamian blue hole may give clues of early life
ong before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida’s coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change -- and eliminate ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Researchers develop new genetic method and identify novel genes for schizophrenia
Scientists at the Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified nine genetic markers that can increase a person’s risk for schizophrenia. In a study published this week in ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Researchers find that a commonly found contaminant may harm nursing infants
Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that perchlorate—an industrial pollutant linked to thyroid ailments—is actively concentrated in breast milk. Their findings suggest that ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Could hydrogen sulfide hold the key to a long life?
Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, the chemical that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench – and the same compound that researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center successfully have used to put mice into a state of reversible ...
Biology /
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Researchers discover possible markers for mental illness
Researchers have discovered natural genetic differences that might help predict the most effective antipsychotic drugs for particular patients with mental disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and drug addiction.
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'Mini transplant' patients' outcomes similar using related and unrelated donor cells
People who undergo nonmyeloablative stem-cell transplants, or “mini transplants,” for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers have comparable outcomes regardless of whether they receive tissue-matched stem cells from a ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Report finds deforestation offers very little money compared to potential financial benefits
Deforestation in tropical countries is often driven by the perverse economic reality that forests are worth more dead than alive. But a new study by an international consortium of researchers has found that the emerging market ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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