Archive: 04/20/2009
Radiation exposure associated with more aggressive thyroid cancer, worse outcomes
Patients with thyroid cancer who have previously been exposed to radiation—for example, in the workplace, through environmental exposure or for treatment of acne or another condition—appear to have more aggressive disease ...
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Psoriasis associated with diabetes and high blood pressure in women
Women with psoriasis appear to have an increased risk for developing diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure), according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology.
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Free online toolkit provides standard measures for genome and population studies
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the release of the first version of a free online toolkit aimed at standardizing measurements of research subjects' ...
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Stimulus money should go to lowest bidders, economists say
A group of Stanford economists is pressing the government to streamline the process for doling out $7.2 billion in economic stimulus money slated for high-speed Internet development.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
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Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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High definition nanomovies reveal how RNA dances with drug partners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on a technique they used to produce nanomovies of RNA molecules in motion, researchers have created "high definition" versions of the animations that reveal even more details about how RNA changes ...
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Ares I Five Segment Development Motor on the Move
(PhysOrg.com) -- On April 16, NASA moved the first segment of the Ares I rocket's five segment development motor, or DM-1, from ATK Space System's production facility in Promontory, Utah, to the nearby test ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Fox News taps MySpace for citizen journalists
MySpace on Monday invited its members to become volunteer "uReporters" by supplying news pictures or videos for use at the social networking website and Fox News network.
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Study paints picture of collegiate mental health
(AP) -- Ever since campus counseling centers were established in the 1940s, college officials have known that the prevalence and severity of students' mental health problems were rising. They just didn't know by how much.
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Mixed feelings about Sun setting in Silicon Valley
(AP) -- If IBM Corp. had managed to buy longtime rival Sun Microsystems Inc., it might have been as incongruous as waking up to a big blue sun.
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TI profit, revenue tumble on shrinking demand (Update)
(AP) -- Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday that first-quarter profit and revenue tumbled as competition heightened and demand for its chips shrank amid the recession, but the results still beat the company's own expectations ...
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LG's Viewty is Back: Viewty Smart (LG-GC900)
LG Electronics announced today Viewty Smart (LG-GC900), a brand new camera phone with an Intelligent Shot Mode that makes it easy to take great pictures by automatically analyzing scenes and adjusting camera ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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How cells change gears
Bioinformatics researchers from UC San Diego just moved closer to unlocking the mystery of how human cells switch from "proliferation mode" to "specialization mode." This computational biology work from the ...
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IBM Alliance Announces Availability of Advanced 28-Nanometer, Low-Power Semiconductor Technology
IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics have defined and are jointly developing a 28-nanometer, high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power bulk ...
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Universal coverage may narrow racial, ethnic and socioeconomic gaps in health care
Health care disparities in the U.S. have long been noted, with particular attention paid to the gaps separating racial and economic groups. And while some research has looked at how insurance—and lack of insurance—contributes ...
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