Archive: 01/29/2009
Avoiding peanut butter won't solve salmonella problem
It's as if the whole nation just acquired a peanut allergy. As a salmonella outbreak sickens hundreds of people across the country, federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat products containing peanut butter ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Listen to the world on a shoestring, or more if you're game
I've been using a thumb-size gadget that is a riveting example of how the Internet has turned our vast planet into a small village.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Donating a kidney is not bad for your health, research shows
People who donate a kidney live just as long and are just as healthy as those with two kidneys, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers that is the largest ever done on the long-term health consequences ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Scientists Learn How Some Cancer Cells Survive Chemo
What separates the few cancer cells that survive chemotherapy - leaving the door open to recurrence - from those that don’t? Weizmann Institute scientists developed an original method for imaging and analyzing many thousands ...
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What happens when a stone impacts on water
Researchers at the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the University of Seville in Spain have explained the formation and behaviour of the ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Teen smoking could lead to adult depression, study says
Teenagers who smoke could be setting themselves up for depression later in life, according to a groundbreaking new Florida State University study.
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Government services for young people at risk of drugs misuse may be doing more harm than good
Current government programmes aimed at reducing drug and alcohol use among young people may be ineffective and may even be doing more harm than good, according to a paper published today in Public Policy Research, the qu ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Researchers identify protein that may explain 'healthy' obesity
Mice whose fat cells were allowed to grow larger than fat cells in normal mice developed "healthy" obesity when fed a high-fat diet, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found in a new study.
Biology /
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Discovery of ionic elemental crystal against chemical intuition
An ETH Zurich researcher has developed a computational method for predicting the structure of materials. He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesized form of pure boron that displays some unusual physical properties ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Domain walls that conduct electricity
The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Research shows that newly discovered drug reduces heart enlargement
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered that a prototype drug reduces heart enlargement, one of the most common causes of heart failure.
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Umbilical cord protein analysis detects early onset infection
Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified proteins associated with early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), a stealthy bacterial infection linked to premature birth, illness and death. Using protein analysis, the researchers ...
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Scientists make malaria parasite work to reveal its own vulnerabilities
Researchers seeking ways to defeat malaria have found a way to get help from the parasite that causes the disease.
Biology /
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Wireless at WARP speed
Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking pots every time you wanted to test a new recipe. ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Gene mutations increase risk for aggressive prostate cancer
Men who develop prostate cancer face an increased risk of having an aggressive tumor if they carry a so-called breast cancer gene mutation, scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva ...
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