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Improving female reproductive health and empowerment through control of NTDs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Controlling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in developing countries would help improve the reproductive health and rights of girls and women in the poorest countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, according ...


First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 4

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...


Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


Variable Temperatures Leave Insects wtih a Frosty Reception

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at The University of Western Ontario have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival.


First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time. was published online today by the American Journal of Human Ge ...


The tall and short of diseases

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research shows that being taller means a fatter pay check and an increased risk of some cancers.


Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, ...


Gene mismatch influences success of bone marrow transplants

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A commonly inherited gene deletion can increase the likelihood of immune complications following bone marrow transplantation, an international team of researchers reports in the November 22 advance online issue of Nature Ge ...


Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...


Genetic analysis helps dissect molecular basis of cardiovascular disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School ...


Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health ...


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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...


New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ON ...


Darwin's mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery

Darwin's mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research could help protect the future of a rare bird in the Galapagos Islands that was an inspiration for Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, scientists report in a paper ...