Girls, young women can cut risk of early breast cancer through regular exercise
May 14, 2008 |
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Mothers, here’s another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause ...
Common bacteria activating natural killer T cells may cause autoimmune liver disease
May 14, 2008 |
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A bacteria commonly found in soil and water triggered autoimmune symptoms in mice similar to those found in an incurable liver disease called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC). Reporting their findings in the May 15 Cell Ho ...
Finding the right soliton for future networks
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European researchers say their study of self-sustaining solitary light wave packets could result in a new generation of computers and optical telecommunications networks. Using light rather than electronic or magnetic devices ...
Gaining Independence Through Video Games
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May 14, 2008 |
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Today’s video games serve a multitude of functions ranging from entertainment to exercise and even education. Now, three graduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Class of 2008 have created a game with an even more ...
Genetic variation linked to sugary food
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A new study released today in the online edition of Physiological Genomics finds that individuals with a specific genetic variation consistently consume more sugary foods. The study offers the first evidence of the role that ...
Chemistry of Airborne Particulate -- Lung Interactions Revealed
May 14, 2008 |
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Exactly how airborne particulates harm our lungs still puzzles epidemiologists, physicians, environmental scientists, and policy makers. Now California Institute of Technology researchers have found that they act by impairing ...
Office initiative reduces headaches and neck and shoulder pain by more than 40 percent
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Office staff who took part in an eight-month workplace initiative reported that headaches and neck and shoulder pain fell by more than 40 per cent and their use of painkillers halved, according to research published in the ...
Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in Pittsburgh
May 14, 2008 |
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Nanosoccer returns to the field later this month, when the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosts for the second time the world’s most Lilliputian sport. Three student teams will participate ...
Fat chance: Brown vs. white fat cell specification
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In the May 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Bruce Spiegelman (Dana Farber Cancer Institute) and colleagues elucidate the molecular pathway that induces cells to become energy-burning brown fat cells as opposed to energy-storing white ...
Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life
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CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good.
Accounting practices ultimately affect global economy
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How much a particular hill of beans is worth may depend on who’s counting the beans. When it comes to accounting standards in the business world, every bean counts, but the quality of financial reporting differs from country ...
Families Shed Light on Likely Causative Gene for Alzheimer's
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The genetic profile of two large Georgia families with high rates of late-onset Alzheimer's disease points to a gene that may cause the disease, researchers say.
Vancouver researchers discover missing link between TB bacteria and humans
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward a treatment to block ...
First electrophysical recording of sleep in a wild animal
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In the first experiment to record the electrophysiology of sleep in a wild animal, three-toed sloths carrying miniature electroencephalogram recorders slept 9.63 hours per day—6 hours less than captive sloths ...
Study says death gap increasing in US
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A new study finds a gap in overall death rates between Americans with less than high school education and college graduates increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001. The study, which appears in the May 14 issue of PLoS ONE, says t ...
