Diesel exhaust inhalation stresses your brain
Mar 11, 2008 |
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If the smell of diesel exhaust isn't enough to make you avoid getting a lungful, new research now shows that even a short exposure to the fumes can affect your brain. A study published in the open access journal Particle an ...
Jules Verne on track for long journey to ISS
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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Following an overnight recovery operation, Jules Verne ATV's propulsion system has successfully been restored to full robustness. The spacecraft has since performed the first orbital manoeuvres necessary to ...
Study finds personal and Web-based support equal weight loss success
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Findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the largest weight loss maintenance study to date reinforce Kaiser Permanente’s approach to obesity prevention. The combination of both personal contact and we ...
IT pros with MBAs earn 46 percent more, says Management Insights study
Mar 11, 2008 |
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IT professional with MBAs earn 46% more than IT professionals with bachelors’ degrees and 37% more than IT professionals with masters’ degrees other than an MBA, according to the Management Insights feature in the current ...
Paradigm shift: Switch for programmed cell death promotes spread of glioblastoma
Mar 11, 2008 |
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Malignant tumors have usually lost their ability to destroy themselves by programmed cell death, or apoptosis. Therefore, tumors are often resistant to chemotherapy or radiation therapy, whose effect is based on forcing tumor ...
Genetic analysis reveals range of Rett syndrome
Mar 11, 2008 |
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The first comprehensive analysis of the clinical effects of genetic mutations involved in Rett syndrome will enable affected families to receive a more accurate indication of their child’s prognosis.
Biologists identify key protein in cell's 'self-eating' function
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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Molecular biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found one piece of the complex puzzle of autophagy, the process of “self-eating” performed by all eukaryotic cells -- cells with a nucleus -- to keep themselves ...
UCLA Anderson: Economy situation doesn't meet definition of 'true' recession
Mar 11, 2008 |
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In its first quarterly report of 2008, released March 11, the UCLA Anderson Forecast remains confident that the national economy was not in a recession through January 2008 and continues to forecast weak growth but no official ...
Harlequin frog rediscovered in remote region of Colombia
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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After 14 years without having been seen, several young scientists supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), have rediscovered the Carrikeri Harlequin Frog (Atelopus carrikeri) in a remote mountainous region ...
Maternal obesity not strongly linked to obesity in offspring says study
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Professor Debbie Lawlor and colleagues used two approaches to test the ‘developmental overnutrition’ hypothesis which asserts that if a woman is overweight during pregnancy, high sugar and fat levels in her body might permanently ...
Minorities, whites get equal care in hospitals
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A University of Maryland study of whether people receive different quality of hospital care because of their race or ethnicity found that when whites and minorities are admitted to a hospital for the same reason, they receive ...
Amphibians respond behaviorally to impact of clear cutting
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The number of amphibians drastically decreases in forest areas that are clearcut, according to previous studies. A University of Missouri researcher, however, has found that some animals may not be dying. ...
Combined stenting and photodynamic therapy improves survival in late stage liver cancer patients
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A combined therapeutic approach of stenting and photodynamic therapy may improve survival rates for patients suffering from advanced liver bile duct cancer, according to a study published this month in Clinical Gastroenterology an ...
Policing cells demand ID to tell friend from foe
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University of Pennsylvania scientists studying macrophages, the biological cells that spring from white blood cells to eat and destroy foreign or dying cells, have discovered how these “policemen” differentiate between friend ...
Revise guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy, says obstetrician
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Current recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy – developed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990 – should be revised, according to an internationally recognized obesity expert and chairman of the department ...
