Archive: 01/18/2008
Panel wants regulations for genetic tests
A federal panel contended that regulations for genetic testing have not advanced with the growing number of consumers who buy them.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Case researcher in RNA biology makes waves by challenging current thinking
In the January 18th issue of Molecular Cell, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher Kristian E. Baker, Ph.D. challenges molecular biology’s established body of evidence and widely-accepted model for no ...
Biology /
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Latex banned at Johns Hopkins Hospital
The landmark Baltimore hospital where latex gloves were invented has become the first major medical institution in the United States to ban latex products.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Study shows how ultrafine particles in air pollution may cause heart disease
Patients prone to heart disease may one day be told by physicians to avoid not only fatty foods and smoking but air pollution too.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Protein discovered that prevents HIV from spreading
In a study that could open up the field of virology to an entirely new suite of possibilities and that paves the way for future drug research, scientists at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Could the Universe be tied up with cosmic string?
A team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Short bacterial protein is surprisingly versatile
MIT researchers have discovered why an unusually short bacterial protein can have many more interactions than would normally be expected of something its size.
Biology /
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Copper's not coping: new chips call on light speed
The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor ...
Jan 18, 2008 |
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People not always needed to alleviate loneliness
New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Will the vAMP replace the CD?
While some people might argue that the CD has already been replaced by the MP3, music stores want to think otherwise. The digital device manufacturer MediaStreet has recently announced a product that it hopes ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Further breakthroughs for breast cancer patients
Researchers at the Tenovus Centre for Cancer Research at Cardiff University have made a breakthrough in breast cancer treatment that could help save the lives of women who become resistant to breast cancer drugs such as tamoxifen.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Scientists discover four new gecko species
Herpetologists discovered four new species of geckos in isolated mountains and islands in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
Biology /
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Prostate cancer treatment draws fire
U.S. medical tourists are headed to Latin American health clinics to receive a controversial prostate cancer treatment not approved in the United States.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Slaughterhouse workers report illnesses
U.S. health officials are investigating a cluster of neurological illnesses in workers at pork slaughter facilities in Indiana and Minnesota.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Inaccurate cancer tests leave two dead
Inaccurate cancer tests may have contributed to the deaths of two people and thousands must be retested after a North Wales doctor misread test results.
Jan 18, 2008 |
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