Light receptors in eye play key role in setting biological clock
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Biologists at the University of Virginia have discovered a switching mechanism in the eye that plays a key role in regulating the sleep/wake cycles in mammals.
Personalized immunotherapy to fight HIV/AIDS
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Aug 15, 2008 |
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For a long time, the main obstacle to creating an AIDS vaccine has been the high genetic variability of the HIV virus. Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy and his team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre ...
Cancer signatures uncovered
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A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in BioMed Central's open access ...
Parents' expectations, styles can harm college students' self-esteem
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Mom and Dad are going to flip out over my 3.3 GPA and failure to land a top internship. Such anxieties, common among college students, can harm self-esteem and make it more difficult to adjust to school. But a new University ...
Sweets make young horses harder to train in Montana State study
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Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages.
Prototype test for predicting clinical outcome for melanoma patients
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Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether a patient will progress ...
Study shows that surgical weight loss does not eliminate obstructive sleep apnea
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A study in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that surgical weight loss results in an improvement of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but most patients continue to have moderate to severe OSA on ...
Prediction markets strong at forecasting US presidential elections, says new management insights
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A case study of the 2004 U.S. Presidential election by researchers at Yale shows that prediction markets are proving to be a strong forecasting tool, one that may have an impact in calling the current presidential contest ...
Ariane 5 - Fifth launch of 2008
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
Back to School Reminder: Kids Should Go for Safety, Not Style
Aug 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- School children across the world may speak different languages but there is one experience an estimated 90 percent of all students share: wearing a backpack. Researchers from the University ...
The Realm of Earthworms: NASA Gets Down to the Nitty-Gritty
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2008 |
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When you hear the word "NASA," do visions of rocket ships dance in your head? Well think again. From now on, it's "earthworms."
English health-care system failing to provide basic care, shows major survey
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The NHS and private healthcare are not providing good enough basic care to a large portion of the population in England, especially older and frailer people, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
Study shows that older adult caregivers of people with dementia have worse sleep than noncaregivers
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A study in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse ...
Asthma in boys may be just a phase, but for girls it may be there to stay
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Boys may be more apt than girls to have childhood asthma, but, when compared to girls, they are also more likely to grow out of it in adolescence and have a decreased incidence of asthma in the post-pubertal years. This indicates ...
Researchers to study lyme-like illness in Texas
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Tao Lin, D.V.M., and Steven J. Norris, Ph.D., both with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, have been named grant recipients of the Norman Hackerman Advanced ...
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