'Invisible' bacteria dupe the human immune system
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Scientists at the University of York have characterised an important new step in the mechanism used by bacteria to evade our immune system.
Children show goal-oriented behavior by age 3
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Hang on, parents. After the terrible twos come the goal-oriented threes. Kids seem to grow into the ability to act in pursuit of goals outside of what they can immediately sense sometime around that age, according to a new ...
Ubiquitous broadband, more than optical illusion
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Better access to ultra-fast broadband networks in Europe is driving development of a host of new web services, promising everything from video conferencing to internet protocol (IP) television. But “ultra-broadband” like ...
Study: low-income women more likely to suffer from postpartum depression
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Poor women in Iowa are much more likely to suffer from postpartum depression than their wealthier counterparts, a new University of Iowa study shows.
UI develops free, easy-to-use web tool kit for archivists
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Archivists at the University of Illinois Library believe they have built a better tool kit. Their new online collections management program called Archon has more than a few attractive features – not the least of which is ...
Study suggests disaggregate earnings better predict stock prices than aggregate earnings
Feb 19, 2008 |
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As a stockholder when you receive the company’s annual report, do you typically look beyond the earnings per share" Most people don’t, but they may want to start examining these financial statements in more detail according ...
Turtle studies suggest health risks from environmental contaminants
Feb 19, 2008 |
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The same chemicals that keep food from sticking to our frying pans and stains from setting in our carpets are damaging the livers and impairing the immune systems of loggerhead turtles—an environmental health ...
Building brains: Mammalian-like neurogenesis in fruit flies
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A new way of generating brain cells has been uncovered in Drosophila. The findings, published this week in the online open access journal Neural Development, reveal that this novel mode of neurogenesis is very similar to tha ...
Federal nanotech risk research plan still comes up short
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2008 |
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An improved but still flawed government-wide plan for nanotechnology risk research is the result of a broken system. Federally-funded studies essential to managing possible risks from this cutting-edge technology should ...
Overweight and obese men have lower PSA values, even before they get prostate cancer
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Men who are overweight or obese have lower concentrations of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in their blood than their normal-weight counterparts, according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers.
HIV patients still stung by stigma from health-care providers
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 19, 2008 |
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The doctor who wouldn’t come into the patient’s hospital room. The neurologist who avoided eye contact. The ambulance attendant who angrily threw her bloodied gloves into the street after learning the injured patient was ...
Scientists shed light on long-distance signaling in developing neurons
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A longstanding puzzle in neurodevelopment may have yielded up a key secret. A team led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College says they have determined how events at the very tips of the developing neuron's long, ...
Researchers create first chikungunya animal model
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Feb 19, 2008 |
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Researchers have developed the first animal model of the infection caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an emerging arbovirus associated with large-scale epidemics that hit the Indian Ocean (especially the French Island of ...
Clicking synthetic and biological molecules together
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Dutch researcher Joost Opsteen has developed a method to click polymers together in a controlled manner. Using this method, he can even attach proteins to nanoballs. For instance, this approach could be used to transport ...
Oregon moose herd thriving in winter
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Oregon's only moose herd appears to be thriving in the northeast mountains this winter, state wildlife biologist Pat Matthews said.
