Disease can be our ally, not just our enemy, says evolutionary biologist
Apr 05, 2007 |
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In a time when we worry about bird flu and contaminated spinach, Marlene Zuk, an evolutionary biologist at UC Riverside, offers a fresh perspective on disease and the role it plays in our lives. Her new book, Riddled with Li ...
Leanest teens are biggest energy users and consumers
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Teens who are most physically active and consume the most calories are the leanest, researchers say.
Mediterranean diet wards off childhood respiratory allergies
Apr 05, 2007 |
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A "Mediterranean" diet rich in fruits, vegetables and nuts protects against allergic rhinitis and asthma symptoms, suggests research published ahead of print in Thorax.
Picture obtained of rare Indonesian rabbit
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Apr 05, 2007 |
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Wildlife Conservation Society researchers in Asia have captured the image of one of the world's rarest rabbits -- the Sumatran striped rabbit.
Golden Nano-Dumbbells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Nanotechnology appears to be an unstoppable trend and it requires defined nanoscale building blocks and patterns. “A typical difficulty with the synthesis of nanostructures is the modification of nanoscale objects at specific ...
Threat of jail time doesn’t keep drunken drivers off the road
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Actor Mel Gibson avoided jail time after he was convicted of driving under the influence in California last year. Most people who take to the wheel after drinking don’t think they’ll wind up behind bars either — or even be ...
Ibuprofen puts high risk cardiac patients at risk
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Doctors who treat the painful condition of osteoarthritis in patients with increased cardiovascular risk need to be cautious. A team lead by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, are the first to study outcomes in ...
Hepatitis C virus blocks 'superinfection'
Apr 05, 2007 |
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There’s infection and then there’s superinfection – when a cell already infected by a virus gets a second viral infection. But some viruses don’t like to share their cells. New research from Rockefeller University shows that ...
Females do best if they wait a while
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Starting to breed late in life is a bad idea if you want to maximise the number of offspring that you produce - or so the theory goes. But doubt has now been cast on this hypothesis - one of the biggest assumptions ...
E-science effort will try to tame data torrents
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 05, 2007 |
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A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling embarassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Information ...
Scientists decode genome of oral pathogen
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have decoded the genome of a bacteria normally present in the healthy human mouth that can cause a deadly heart infection if it enters the bloodstream.
Multiple myeloma clinical trial closes early
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Mayo Clinic Cancer Center announced today that a multiple myeloma clinical trial has shown a significant improvement in survival with lenalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone therapy compared to lenalidomide plus high-dose ...
Cambridge to host first city-wide wireless sensor network
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Harvard University, BBN Technologies, and the City of Cambridge have begun a four-year project to install 100 wireless sensors atop streetlights in Cambridge, Mass., creating the world's first city-wide network of wireless ...
Drug-resistant bacteria can be controlled
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U.S. medical scientists have discovered a technique that might allow them to control drug-resistant bacteria.
Russia bans W. Va. poultry for bird flu
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Russia has imposed a temporary ban on poultry products imported from West Virginia after turkeys at a Pendleton County farm tested positive for bird flu.
