Chronic pain should be considered a disease
Feb 15, 2008 |
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The concept that chronic pain is a disease in its own right is leading to new specific treatments aimed at physical, psychological, and environmental components of this major disease, including genetic predisposition, according ...
Smoking during pregnancy can put mums and babies at risk
Feb 15, 2008 |
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A British report suggests smoking while pregnant may be less damaging to a fetus than many people have been led to believe.
Melting snow provides clues for acidification
Feb 15, 2008 |
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In forests of the northeastern United States, sulfate and nitrate are the dominant dissolved forms of sulfur and nitrogen in precipitation. In winter, these acidic agents accumulate in the snowpack and are released to groundwater ...
Britain considers manned space missions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2008 |
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The British government may be rethinking its decision not to pursue manned space missions.
Unexplored microbes hold incredible potential for science and industry
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Feb 15, 2008 |
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Humans live in the midst of a seething, breathing microbial world. Microorganisms populate every conceivable habitat, both familiar and exotic, from the surface of the human skin, to rainforest floors, to hydrothermal vents ...
Policies key as ethanol 'revolution' links agriculture, energy sectors
Feb 15, 2008 |
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The recent boom in production of ethanol from corn grain has tightly linked the agriculture and energy sectors in an unprecedented fashion.
A genetic variant increases the risk of developing schizophrenia in women
Feb 15, 2008 |
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A complete scan of the human genome has revealed that a genetic variant in the Reelin gene increases the risk of developing schizophrenia in women only. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University ...
Uukuniemi virus helps to explain infection mechanism of bunyaviruses
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Feb 15, 2008 |
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The Uukuniemi virus is the first bunyavirus whose structure researchers have been able to determine. Together with more detailed studies of the viral membrane proteins, knowledge of the Uukuniemi virus may provide a basis ...
Scientists move closer to developing a new class of asthma and allergy drugs
Feb 15, 2008 |
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A team of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded scientists has moved a step closer to developing a new class of effective asthma and allergy drugs. With new research published today in The Jo ...
San Diego battles rising STD cases
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Health officials in San Diego have begun a media campaign to try to cut the rising rate of syphilis and other sexually-transmitted diseases.
Blinded by sFRP-1: A WNT signaling protein plays a key role in glaucoma
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Glaucoma is one of the major causes of visual impairment and blindness throughout the world. A major risk factor for the disease is an increase in the pressure in the eye (intraocular pressure [IOP]). IOP is determined by ...
Defining cancer's genetic 'support network'
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Researchers at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) have developed a new method that essentially does for the genetic pathways underlying cancer what social networking web sites can do for people: ...
UK: Suicide rates in young men at lowest levels since 1970s
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The reasons for the steady decline in suicides among young people in the UK are explored in two studies by researchers from the University of Bristol published on bmj.com today. The studies were carried out in collaboration ...
