A common aquatic animal's genome can capture foreign DNA
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Long viewed as straitlaced spinsters, sexless freshwater invertebrate animals known as bdelloid rotifers may actually be far more promiscuous than anyone had imagined: Scientists at Harvard University have found that the ...
Poor spellers with good phonetic skills are more often right-handed
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Children who can read and have good phonetic skills - the ability to recognize the individual sounds within words – may still be poor spellers. In a paper published in the May 2008 issue of Cortex, Elizabeth Eglinton and Ma ...
Appealing the death sentence for brain cells
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A new drug candidate discovered by Tel Aviv University researcher Prof. Illana Gozes may lead to an effective treatment against the debilitative Alzheimer's disease. This compound could also treat a number of diseases where ...
Green firms rewarded by financial markets
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When a company improves its environmental performance, it is common to think that the accompanying economic improvements are based on the company's more efficient use of resources. However,
End of an era as paper airline tickets dropped from June 1
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The paper airline ticket comes to the end of its life on Sunday when 240 carriers belonging to the world association IATA switch to all electronic ticketing, much of it through Internet booking.
Even Low Levels of Air Pollution May Pose Stroke Risk
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A new study investigated the association between short-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and the risk of stroke and found that even low pollutant levels may increase that risk. The study is published in Annals of ...
Bilateral cochlear implants: A case when 2 are definitely superior to 1
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A study of cochlear implant patients seen by Indiana University School of Medicine physicians is the first research to show evidence that cochlear implants in both ears significantly improves quality of life in patients with ...
Researchers gain new insights on spinal muscular atrophy
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that the effect of a protein deficiency, which is the basis of the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), is not restricted to motor ...
Scientists discover stinging truths about jellyfish blooms in the Bering Sea
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A new study helps explain a cyclic increase and decrease of jellyfish populations, which transformed parts of the Bering Sea--one of the U.S.'s most productive fisheries--into veritable jellytoriums during ...
The structure of XPD sheds light on cancer and aging
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The protein XPD is one component of an essential repair mechanism that maintains the integrity of DNA. XPD is unique, however, in that pinpoint mutations of this single protein are responsible for three different ...
Inflammation, depression and antidepressant response: Common mechanisms
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Major depressive disorder is a common and complex condition that impacts about 15% of the population of the United States, yet very little is known about the mechanisms behind the psychiatric disorder. What is known is ...
New method effective in detecting dangerous coronary plaque
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A significant number of patients who suffer a heart attack never have any warning signs. For many of these individuals, the source of the problem is noncalcified plaque, a buildup of soft deposits embedded deep within the ...
Government use of school league tables completely unjustified
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Parents and teachers should not rely on school league tables to judge how good, or bad, a school is, according to research published today.
How defects in 1 gene cause 3 distinct and devastating human diseases
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By studying heat-loving microbes, two research teams have gained new insight into how seemingly small differences in a single protein involved in DNA transcription and repair can lead to strikingly different genetic disorders ...
Bridging the math gender gap
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The gender gap in math perceived to exist between girls and boys has long been contested. New research published in the journal Science sheds clarity on the debate and demonstrates that girls perform better in mathematics in mor ...
