Archive: 12/26/2007
Stimulating muscles may improve musician's dystonia
Therapy that stimulates the hand muscles may help treat the condition called musician’s dystonia, a movement disorder that causes muscles spasms in musicians, according to a study published in the December 26, 2007, online ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Web sites offer test answers 'cheap'
A Web site in Ohio is offering answers to hundreds of questions on qualifying examinations for professionals ranging from computer technicians to pharmacists.
Dec 26, 2007 |
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MIT seeks funding for elastic spacesuit
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are seeking funding to develop a skin-tight, next-generation spacesuit for a possible mission to Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Polarization technique focuses limelight
The ability to explore remote worlds in space has been enhanced through a polarization technique that allows the first ever detection of light reflected by extrasolar (exoplanet) planets. The study has been ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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The Quarterlife Dilemma: WWW Means World-Wide-Web
The Twenty-something twice-weekly drama, "Quarterlife The Show" is the first independent production to move to big time broadcasting. Its initial blockbuster appearance on MySpace and YouTube has waned recently. ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Health coverage improves health and reduces major heart complications
As presidential candidates ramp up their primary campaigns, health care reform looms prominently among voters’ main concerns.
Dec 26, 2007 |
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New studies confirm chest compressions alone
Two large-scale studies published in the Dec. 18 issue of the American Heart Association’s medical journal, Circulation, report that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are no better – and may be worse – when bystanders perfor ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Oral anti diabetic substance discovered
Research in the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Science Education of the University of Haifa has discovered a substance that may become an oral treatment for diabetes and its complications. The substance, ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Two 'noses' are necessary for flies to navigate well
Animals and insects communicate through an invisible world of scents. By exploiting infrared technology, researchers at Rockefeller University just made that world visible. With the ability to see smells, these scientists ...
Biology /
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite
Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Resear ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Bird flu vaccine made in powder form
A researcher in the Netherlands has created an avian flu vaccine in powder form.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Exotic mussels spreading in California
Quagga mussels, an exotic species native to Ukraine that was first found in the Great Lakes 18 years ago, have been found in a fifth San Diego County reservoir.
Biology /
Dec 26, 2007 |
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High cost of nuclear medicine weighed
U.S. advances in the use of nuclear accelerators to fight cancer are being tempered by concerns about the high cost of such equipment with uncertain benefits.
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Polio's eradication still uncertain
Efforts to wipe out polio have stalled in recent years and eradication of the crippling disease remains a question mark, U.S. and world experts say.
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Breast cancer gene mutation more common in Hispanic, young black women, study finds
A genetic mutation already known to be more common in Ashkenazi Jewish breast cancer patients is also prevalent in Hispanic and young African-American women with breast cancer, according to one of the largest, multiracial ...
Dec 26, 2007 |
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