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Wishful bettors, those who make overly optimistic investments, will ultimately harm themselves financially, but they can harm entire markets as well, new research shows. http://www.physorg.com/news156000497.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:28:50 EST news156000497 Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news155883644.html Biology Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:01:26 EST news155883644 Women whose cells harbor harmful mutations in the BRCA genes are likely to view preventive mastectomy as the best way to reduce their risk and fears of developing breast cancer, despite other, less drastic options available. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the April 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's findings could help physicians and other clinicians as they discuss test results with women who undergo BRCA gene testing. http://www.physorg.com/news155810166.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:36:59 EST news155810166 Breast cancer patients 35 years old and younger have higher rates of their cancer returning after treatment than older women patients with the same stage of cancer, and their risk of recurrence is greatly impacted by the type of treatment they received, according to a March 1 study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). http://www.physorg.com/news155397867.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:04:56 EST news155397867 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Federal Trade Commission recently asked a UT Dallas criminology researcher for help understanding what motivates identity thieves. http://www.physorg.com/news155318163.html Other Sciences Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:57:50 EST news155318163 Mudslides that followed the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the US Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a new study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news155232114.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:02:38 EST news155232114 The socioeconomic characteristics of people who play state lotteries are similar to investors who pick stocks with a lottery quality--high risk with a small potential for high return, and just like the lottery, returns on average are lower for those who invest this way in the stock market, research from The University of Texas at Austin shows. http://www.physorg.com/news154869402.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:17:20 EST news154869402 Should I spend money on a vacation or a new computer? Will an experience or an object make me happier? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depends on different factors, including how materialistic you are. http://www.physorg.com/news154630684.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:58:30 EST news154630684 It matters whether you give your loved one a material gift or an experience for Valentine's Day, say researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business and Washington University in St. Louis. http://www.physorg.com/news153574928.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:42:52 EST news153574928 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the Ethiopian government, have completed the first high-resolution CT scan of the world's most famous fossil, Lucy, an ancient human ancestor who lived 3.2 million years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news153146616.html Other Sciences Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:44:04 EST news153146616 GALVESTON, Texas - Ever since scientists first proposed that our planet might be experiencing widespread climate change, concerns have been raised about its implications for the spread of arboviruses - viruses carried by arthropods such as mosquitoes, midges and ticks. However, while alterations in temperature and rainfall are important factors in making new territory hospitable to an invading arbovirus, many other forces also play significant parts in new patterns of viral emergence. http://www.physorg.com/news153065180.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:06:52 EST news153065180 Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found that increased angiogenesis, or blood vessel formation, and vascular endothelial growth factor expression are associated with poor survival in women with sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors. This data was presented in a poster session today at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists' 40th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news153058946.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:22:48 EST news153058946 A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has found that secondary security screening at airports is mathematically flawed, and has identified a way to select people for screenings more efficiently and fairly. http://www.physorg.com/news152818326.html Other Sciences Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:32:35 EST news152818326 (PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of astronomers from Texas and Germany have used a telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory together with Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes around the world to uncover new evidence that the largest, most massive galaxies in the universe and the supermassive black holes at their hearts grew together over time. http://www.physorg.com/news152815781.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:53:29 EST news152815781 Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news152772851.html Nanotechnology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:55:02 EST news152772851 Brief but personal intervention reduces drinking among risky college drinkers, according to a research study at The University of Texas School of Public Health. Results of the study will be published in the February issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. http://www.physorg.com/news152560530.html Medicine & Health Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:56:06 EST news152560530 People are dying from "super bugs" because our antibiotic arsenal has run dry, leaving the world without sufficient weapons to fight ever-changing bacteria, warn infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. http://www.physorg.com/news152386854.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:41:11 EST news152386854 Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. http://www.physorg.com/news152284917.html Physics Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:22:37 EST news152284917 A preventive procedure to remove the unaffected breast in breast cancer patients with disease in one breast may only be necessary in patients who have high-risk features as assessed by examining the patient's medical history and pathology of the breast cancer, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. http://www.physorg.com/news152162632.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:24:10 EST news152162632 Bacteria hunker down and survive antibiotic attack when a protein flips a chemical switch that throws them into a dormant state until treatment abates, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Jan.16 edition of Science. http://www.physorg.com/news151252537.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:35:37 EST news151252537 Abnormalities in genes that repair mistakes in DNA replication may help identify people who are at high risk of developing pancreatic cancer, a research team from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the Jan. 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news151222307.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:11:47 EST news151222307 Variations in mismatch repair genes can help predict treatment response and prognosis in patients with pancreatic cancer, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center presented today in advance of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. http://www.physorg.com/news151141502.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:45:02 EST news151141502