European power plants boosting coal use
Apr 24, 2008 |
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High oil and natural gas prices, coupled with increased demand, are driving Europe's return to coal-fired power plants, an industry official says.
New 3-D ultrasound could improve stroke diagnosis, care
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Using 3-D ultrasound technology they designed, Duke University bioengineers can compensate for the thickness and unevenness of the skull to see in real-time the arteries within the brain that most often clog up and cause ...
AMPK signaling: Got food?
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Apr 24, 2008 |
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A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies think they know how many—if not most—living organisms answer this question. They recently showed that when food supplies dwindle, mammals, ...
Desalination can boost US water supplies, but environmental research needed
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Recent advances in technology have made removing salt from seawater and groundwater a realistic option for increasing water supplies in some parts of the U.S., and desalination will likely have a niche in meeting the nation's ...
Specialized white blood cells coordinate 'first responders' to viral infection
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Just as fire engines arrive quickly at the scene to save people and property, the cells that fight viruses have to reach the site of an infection promptly to mount a protective response.
Scientists call for more access to biotech crop data
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Biologists call for making available more detailed maps of the locations of biotech crops. Access to maps of biotech crops on a county and township level will give researchers greater ability to analyze the ...
ISU researcher works with European Space Agency to test moisture satellite
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Apr 24, 2008 |
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Europeans want to peek into our soil and see how dry we are. And an Iowa State University professor is eager to help, and even check their results.
Researcher to Study Gene Flow 'Hot Spots' in Canola
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A University of Arkansas researcher and her colleagues have won a joint grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency to look at the combined effects of global climate change on weed ...
Pretermers bounce back from pain with a cuddle
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Research published today in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics suggests that very preterm babies, born between 28 and 31 weeks, could benefit from skin-to-skin cuddling with their mother before and during painful proced ...
Study shows positive findings in treating patients with advanced hepatitis C
Apr 24, 2008 |
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The hepatitis C therapy peginterferon alfa-2b, when given as low-dose maintenance therapy, can prevent disease progression in certain patients who failed previous interferon-based hepatitis C therapies and have advanced liver ...
Invention gives improved gene technology analysis
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Apr 24, 2008 |
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A patent for a system that gives more reliable results in gene technology-based diagnostic tests has been granted to researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH).
Higher wealth linked to lower stroke risk from age 50 to 64
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Higher wealth is linked with a lower risk of stroke in Americans between the ages of 50 and 64, but does not predict strokes in those over age 65, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Scientists say biodiversity is crucial to ecosystem productivity
Apr 24, 2008 |
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In the first experiment involving a natural environment, scientists at Brown University have shown that richer plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the ...
Silk-brand chocolate soymilk recalled
Apr 24, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the voluntary nationwide recall of Silk-brand chocolate flavor soymilk due to a labeling error.
Teenager to have giant tumor removed
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A 15-year-old Vietnamese girl will have surgery in Miami Tuesday to remove a giant tumor that has deformed her face, doctors say.
