A novel finding in how chikungunya virus has spread to new vectors and locations
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have discovered how a key protein switch allows Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) to spread to new vectors. The study, published December 7 in PLoS Pathogens, explains how the ...
Even in healthy elderly, brain systems become less coordinated
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Some brain systems become less coordinated with age even in the absence of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from Harvard University. The results help to explain why advanced age is often accompanied ...
Chicago struggles with high diabetes rate
Dec 07, 2007 |
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A healthcare consulting group says the Chicago area has a higher rate of Type 2 diabetes than the national average.
Cleaner diesels thanks to laser light
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Bas Bougie has developed a laser system to investigate soot development in diesel engines. Small soot particles are not retained by a soot filter but are, however, more harmful than larger soot particles. ...
Mechanism for regulation of growth and differentiation of adult muscle stem cells is revealed
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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During muscle regeneration, which is a natural response to injury and disease, environmental cues cause adult muscle stem cells (satellite cells) to shift from dormancy to actively building new muscle tissue.
James Webb Space Telescope Testing to Find Infrared Light for Christmas
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2007 |
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A model of the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument will be tested before Christmas at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England to ensure the final instrument can see infrared ...
Young and invisible: African domestic workers in Yemen
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Filmmaker Arda Nederveen and anthropologist Marina de Regt have made a short documentary about Ethiopian and Somalian women who work as domestic workers in Yemen. Many families in economically developed countries make use ...
Scottish mothers have fewer children than other UK women
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Fertility in Scotland is below that of other countries and regions in the UK. In comparison with their English neighbours, Scottish women leave longer gaps between their children and are more likely to stop at two children. ...
New ambitious project to barcode an entire ecosystem
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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UC Berkeley researchers are leading an ambitious, first-of-its-kind effort to inventory all non-microbial life on the South Pacific island of Moorea. Supported by a new three-year, $5.2 million grant from ...
Safe and effective therapy discovered for patients with protein-losing enteropathy
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham Institute) have developed the first model to study intestinal protein leakage in mice, allowing the team to control and replicate both genetic deficiencies ...
Stats fail to reflect investments in knowledge economy
Dec 07, 2007 |
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The way productivity performance is calculated in official statistics may be selling UK businesses seriously short, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Doctors failing to diagnose HIV early in UK Africans
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Doctors are missing valuable opportunities to diagnose HIV in Africans living in the UK, with serious consequences for their long term health, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The researchers, led by Dr ...
Managers to Discuss Atlantis Launch Today
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2007 |
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The launch of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis will take place no earlier than Saturday, Dec. 8, at 3:43 p.m. EST. Thursday's scheduled liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., was postponed because of ...
Participation in organized high school activities lowers risk of smoking 3 years after graduation
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania reported today that students who participate in high school sports or individual physical activity are less likely to smoke than their classmates. ...
A new approach to study flu drug resistance
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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Researchers have created a new approach for studying resistance to Neuraminidase Inhibitors (NI) in influenza. The study, published December 7 in PLoS Computational Biology, combines data from influenza infections of hum ...
