Olympic Games: Have we reached a plateau in terms of speed?
Jul 31, 2008 |
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The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter run just after World War II. Today, ...
Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia
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A research team led by University of Washington scientists has found that several people in South and Southeast Asian countries working and living around monkeys have been infected with simian foamy virus (SFV), a primate ...
Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?
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African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, ...
Treatment corrects severe insulin imbalance in animal studies
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Researchers have used a drug to achieve normal levels of blood sugar in animals genetically engineered to have abnormally high insulin levels. If this approach succeeds in humans, it could become an innovative medicine for ...
Like eavesdropping at a party
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Cells rely on calcium as a universal means of communication. For example, a sudden rush of calcium can trigger nerve cells to convey thoughts in the brain or cause a heart cell to beat. A longstanding mystery has been how ...
Biological fathers not necessarily the best, social dads parent well too
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A large number of U.S. children live or will live with a "social father," a man who is married to or cohabiting with the child's mother, but is not the biological father. A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examin ...
Male fish deceive rivals about their top mate choice
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When competitors are around, male Atlantic mollies try to hide their top mate choice, reveals a new study published online on July 31st in Current Biology.
UNH researchers tag first-ever free-swimming leatherback turtles in New England
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University of New Hampshire researchers have tagged one male and two female leatherback turtles off Cape Cod. They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks ever tagged in New England.
Watching too much TV is causing some university students to pack on the pounds
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Television commercials are a common method for advertising food products. According to a team of University of Alberta researchers, these food advertisements have a powerful influence on its viewers, especially university ...
Factors that influence whether people define unwelcome sexual joking in the workplace as harassment
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A new study in Law & Social Inquiry shows that how people define sexual harassment is directly related to the extent to which they view sexual harassment rules as ambiguous and threatening to workplace norms.
How 'hidden mutations' contribute to HIV drug resistance
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 31, 2008 |
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One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored ...
Simple lab test for bone disease linked to risk of death in dialysis patients
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Among patients receiving dialysis for chronic kidney disease (CKD), high levels of alkaline phosphatase—a routinely measured laboratory marker of bone disease—may signal an increased risk of death, reports a study in the ...
Alcohol binges early in pregnancy increase risk of infant oral clefts
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A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who binge drink early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood ...
Genetic data promises new future for kiwi fruit
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Kiwifruit lovers can look forward to new, novel forms of their favourite fruit thanks to the release this week of crucial genetic data which fruit breeders say will help them naturally breed new varieties with increased health ...
New treatment therapy helps inhibit hepatitis C
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Two new studies examine the use of the nucleoside polymerase inhibitor, R1626, to the standard therapy for hepatitis C. The reports appear in the August issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on beh ...
