Archive: 04/22/2008
Fat-cell hormone linked to kidney disease
Reduced levels of a hormone produced by fat cells and linked to the development of insulin resistance may also be related to a higher risk of kidney disease, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Laser dissection of depression
Chinese investigators from Hefei and Dutch researchers in Amsterdam have collaborated using for the first time a combination of new elegant methodology in Depression research. They used postmortem human brain tissue that ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Canadian greenhouse gases rose 1990-2005
Canada's greenhouse gas emissions increased 25 percent between 1990 and 2005, a federal report published Tuesday said.
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Companies do not always release important information
The study, led by Karen Lightstone, PhD, CA, of Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, Canada, focused on companies that had received a cease-trading order (CTO), indicating that the investor could not sell shares and that ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought
While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Commercialization of air traffic control greatly improves performance
The air transportation industry is imperative to modern society. This industry depends, in turn, on a network of air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to manage the flow of air traffic. A new study in Canadian Public Ad ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Drug-releasing stent shows promise for improving outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease
For patients who underwent angioplasty to open narrowed coronary arteries, the use of stents releasing the drug everolimus reduced the rate of renarrowing of the arteries and significantly reduced the risk of major cardiac ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Sickest patients still struggle under new Medicare Part D benefit
A recent study finds that the advantages of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit—a program that for the first time offers Medicare recipients prescription drug coverage—are mixed. On the one hand, both healthy and sick beneficiaries ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Scientists discover a mechanism that can send cells on the road to cancer
Using a common virus as a tool for investigating abnormal cell proliferation, a team led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has succeeded in clarifying an intricate series of biochemical steps that shed ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Can certain metals repel sharks from fishing gear?
Sharks in captivity avoid metals that react with seawater to produce an electric field, a behavior that may help fishery biologists develop a strategy to reduce the bycatch of sharks in longline gear. Shark bycatch is an ...
Biology /
Apr 22, 2008 |
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It pays to know your opponent: success in negotiations improved by perspective-taking
From the war room to the board room, negotiations are a part of everyday life. Successful negotiations demand a clear understanding of one’s opponent. But what approach should one take to achieve such an understanding of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Engineering students: Headset muffles loud, unnerving MRI noises
Having an MRI exam, an experience many people describe as stressful and uncomfortable, could soon become a bit more pleasant, thanks to the work of a team of University of Florida engineering students.
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Secure Communication via Space
The exchange of information between distant sources is the basis of all communications, but quantum mechanics may open up this distant exchange as never before.
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Photoluminescence in nano-needles
Silicon is the workhorse among semiconductors in electronics. But in opto-electronics, where light signals are processed along with electronic signals, a semiconductor that is capable of emitting light is needed, which silicon ...
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Scientists clarify a mechanism of epigenetic inheritance
Although letters representing the three billion pairs of molecules that form the “rungs” of the helical DNA “ladder” are routinely called the human “genetic code,” the DNA they comprise transmits traits across generations ...
Biology /
Apr 22, 2008 |
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