Joint NASA-French satellite to track trends in sea level, climate
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 20, 2008 |
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A satellite that will help scientists better monitor and understand rises in global sea level, study the world's ocean circulation and its links to Earth's climate, and improve weather and climate forecasts ...
Farm moms may help children beat allergies
May 20, 2008 |
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Mothers exposed to farms, particularly to barns and farm milk, while pregnant confer protection from allergies on their newborns, according to a group of German researchers, who will present their findings at the American ...
New blood test reveals risk for metabolic syndrome
May 20, 2008 |
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University of Minnesota researchers have discovered that people with high oxidation levels of the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particle that carries cholesterol throughout the blood are much more likely to develop metabolic ...
Gene mutations in mice mimic human-like sleep disorder, researchers find
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DALLAS – May 20, 2008 – Mutations in two genes that control electrical excitability in a portion of the brain involved in sleep create a human-like insomnia disorder in mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have ...
Scientists 'paint' viruses to track their fate in the body
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May 20, 2008 |
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Biologists from Austria and Singapore developed a technique that adds a new twist on the relationship between biology and art. In an article recently published online in The FASEB Journal and scheduled for the August 2008 p ...
Mars Express mission controllers ready for NASA Phoenix landing
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 20, 2008 |
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ESA's Mars Express mission control team are ready to monitor Phoenix's critical entry, descent and landing onto the Martian surface on 26 May 2008.
Do chemicals in the environment affect fertility?
May 20, 2008 |
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Our day-to-day exposure to chemicals is on the increase. From food packaging to the air we breathe, every day contact with potentially-toxic substances could be affecting our health — and our fertility.
Overweight in adolescence gives increased mortality rate
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People who were already overweight in adolescence (14-19 years old) have an increased mortality rate from a range of chronic diseases as adults; endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, colon ...
Tool creates personalized catch-up immunization schedules for missed childhood vaccinations
May 20, 2008 |
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A new downloadable software tool will help pediatricians, parents and other health care professionals determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccine doses aren’t ...
'Blood-free' monitoring as good as blood tests in predicting the course of AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 20, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that monitoring treatment adherence to AIDS therapy is a simple blood-free way to monitor risk of disease progression. The international study was ...
New technology puts biomedical imaging in palm of hands
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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a narrowband filter mosaic that will expand the uses and functionality of multispectral imaging—a technology that enables subsurface characterization. The new, single-exposure ...
Determining genetic signature of lung tumors can help guide treatment
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The first U.S. clinical trial using genetic screening to identify lung tumors likely to respond to targeted therapies supports the use of those drugs as first-line treatment rather than after standard chemotherapy has failed. ...
A new indicator for esophageal varix in alcoholic disease
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Variceal hemorrhaging is associated with a high mortality rate. The early detection of esophageal varices is critical for the effective prevention of variceal hemorrhage.
Heterotopic gastric tissue simulating acute appendicitis
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It is not uncommon to find tissue that normally lines the stomach in locations outside of the digestive tract. This "heterotopic" gastric tissue has been identified in such diverse locations as the scrotum, the gall bladder, ...
Teen blood donors have higher risk of donation-related complications
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Sixteen- and 17-year olds who donate blood are significantly more likely to experience donation-related complications such as fainting and bruising than older blood donors, according to a study in the May 21 issue of JAMA.
