Archive: 06/07/2009
Alternative medicine goes mainstream
(AP) -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
(AP) -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Link unraveled between chromosomal instability and centrosome defects in cancer cells
In a new study, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists disprove a century-old theory about why cancer cells often have too many or too few chromosomes, and show that the actual reason may hold the key to a novel approach ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Recruitment of reproductive features into other cell types may underlie extended lifespan in animals
In the sense that organisms existing today are connected through a chain of life - through their parents, grandparents and other ancestors - almost a billion years back to the first animals of the pre-Cambrian era, an animal's ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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A lethal cancer knocked down by one-two drug punch
In the battle against cancer, allies can come from unexpected sources. Research at The Jackson Laboratory has yielded a new approach to treating leukemia, one that targets leukemia-proliferating cells with drugs that are ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Research identifies 3-D structure of key nuclear pore building block
The genome of complex organisms is stashed away inside each cell's nucleus, a little like a sovereign shielded from the threatening world outside. The genome cannot govern from its protective chamber, however, without knowing ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Digital piracy looms over World Copyright Summit
Movie directors, composers, authors, legal experts, policy-makers and others are meeting here this week to discuss the "threats and opportunities" the Internet poses to copyright in the digital age.
Jun 07, 2009 |
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The future of robots is rat-shaped
Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab.
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Indian scientists clone buffalo: report
Scientists in the Indian state of Haryana have cloned a buffalo using foetal tissue, according to a report.
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Apple might give glimpse at Jobs and new iPhone
Apple on Monday is expected to unveil a next-generation iPhone and possibly provide a glimpse at long-absent chief executive Steve Jobs as it kicks off a software developers conference here.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Obama team plans more active role on health care
(AP) -- The White House, backing away from President Barack Obama's "it's-all-on-the-table" approach initially advocated, prepared to get louder and more involved in the details of a health care overhaul ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Injected with HIV by dad as baby, teen inspires
(AP) -- Brryan Jackson has been left out of birthday party invitations and asked not to use water fountains. His daily routine at one point included 23 pills, three IV medications and two injections. But ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 07, 2009 |
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Scientists eye glowing volcano crater in Hawaii
(AP) -- The summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is glowing brightly as molten lava swirls 300 feet below its crater's floor, bubbling near the surface after years of spewing from the volcano's side.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 07, 2009 |
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