Family conditions may affect when girls experience puberty
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Early puberty in girls has been found to negatively affect these teenagers’ health in areas such as mood disorders, substance abuse, adolescent pregnancy, and cancers of the reproductive system. Given these findings, it is ...
New European loess map
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2007 |
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A new map showing the distribution of loess sediments in Europe has been published for the first time in 75 years, in digital format. With this map, Dagmar Haase, a geographer at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ...
MU Engineers Designing Sensor System to Prevent Dam Failure
Nov 15, 2007 |
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As engineers all across America struggle to maintain the nation’s aging infrastructure, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher is developing a way to prevent one type of disastrous dam failure.
People can put a price tag on economic justice, economists say
Nov 15, 2007 |
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How much would you pay to live in an equitable society in which people get what they deserve and deserve what they get? Economists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Free University of Berlin have developed a mathematical ...
Bad to the bone: new research to shed light on osteoporosis
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Ten million people in the United States are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National ...
Customized telemetry system for the James Webb Space Telescope successful
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Once it launches in 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to communicate with the Earth thanks to a customized and modified "off-the-shelf" system that has been recently and successfully tested ...
Researchers reverse key symptom of muscular dystrophy
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have identified a compound that eliminates myotonia – a symptom of muscular dystrophy – in mice. The study was published online today in the Journal of Clinical In ...
Birds may not have clawed their way up the evolutionary tree
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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University of Queensland researchers have clipped the wings of the idea that the ancestors of modern birds were tree dwellers.
University of Minnesota releases first ever comprehensive report of the health of college students
Nov 15, 2007 |
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A report released by the University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service today is the first of its kind in the nation to conduct a comprehensive survey on the health of college students. About 10,000 college students completed ...
Left brain helps hear through the noise
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Our brain is very good at picking up speech even in a noisy room, an adaptation essential for holding a conversation at a cocktail party, and now we are beginning to understand the neural interactions that underlie this ability. ...
Chemical combo linked to cat deaths
Nov 15, 2007 |
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U.S. researchers say it appears it was the combination of two chemicals found in pet food recalled this year that caused animals to die.
Neuroscientists propose new theory of brain flexibility
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Marcel Just and Stanford postdoctoral fellow Sashank Varma have put forward a new computational theory of brain function that provides answers to one of the central questions of modern ...
Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease can be trusted in clinical trials
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The best-established biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease have a low natural variation over two years. The results speak for the inclusion of these biomarkers in clinical trials of novel drugs against Alzheimer’s disease.
MIT commercial real estate index posts first drop since '03
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The value of U.S. commercial real estate owned by big pension funds fell 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2007, according to an index produced by the MIT Center for Real Estate.
Virus used to create experimental HIV vaccines directly impairs the immune response
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Leading efforts to create an HIV vaccine have hinged on the use of viruses as carriers for selected elements of the HIV virus. Recently, however, evidence has emerged that some of these so-called viral vector systems may ...
