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Bacterial persistence in streams
Aug 05, 2008 |
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A research team from the University of Tennessee (UT) has completed a study on an East Tennessee river to determine the connection between watershed hydrology and fecal bacteria statistical time series analysis. Shesh Koirala ...
Physicists investigate 'best friends forever'
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Some friendships are short and fleeting, while others may last years. Although a wide variety of factors go into determining the strength of our relationships, the long-lasting ones seem to share a number ...
Milk drinking started around 7,500 years ago in central Europe
Aug 28, 2009 |
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The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College ...
Study firms up promise of potential new cervical cancer screening tool
May 21, 2008 |
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New research into the causes of cervical cancer appears to lend weight to the promise of a potential early detection method that could help prevent the disease.
Insomnia often appears to be a persistent condition
Mar 09, 2009 |
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About three-fourths of individuals with insomnia report experiencing the condition for at least one year and almost half experience it for three years, according to a report in the March 9 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...
Uterus sparing surgery is a safe and effective treatment for pelvic organ prolapse
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Researchers presented data at the 104th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) showing that uterus sparing surgery is an effective and safe treatment for women who want to preserve the integrity ...
Study: Indirect transmission can trigger influenza outbreaks in birds
Jun 02, 2009 |
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New data on the persistence of avian influenza viruses in the environment has allowed a team of University of Georgia researchers to create the first model that takes into account both direct and indirect transmission of ...
Un-total recall: Amnesics remember grammar, but not meaning of new sentences
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Syntactic persistence is the tendency for speakers to produce sentences using similar grammatical patterns and rules of language as those they have used before. Although the way this occurs is not well understood, previous ...
Neural progenitor cells as reservoirs for HIV in the brain
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 04, 2008 |
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Impaired brain function is a prominent and still unsolved problem in AIDS . Shortly after an individual becomes infected with HIV, the virus can invade the brain and persist in this organ for life. Many HIV-infected individuals ...
Tropical forest seed banks: A blast from the past
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Seeds of some tree species in the Panamanian tropical forest can survive for more than 30 years before germinating. That is 10 times longer than most field botanists had believed.
UGA, UPR grant license for long-persistence glow materials, in any color
Aug 17, 2009 |
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The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGARF) and the University of Puerto Rico have granted an international, non-exclusive license for a portfolio of glow-in-the-dark pigments that can be designed ...
HIV-infected infants respond poorly to childhood vaccination
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 05, 2007 |
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It is known that HIV-infected children who do not receive appropriate antiretroviral drugs experience immune depression, and may become susceptible to infectious diseases that would otherwise be prevented by childhood immunization. ...
Cellular safety shelters allow TB agent to survive in infected individuals
Nov 14, 2008 |
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"Foamy" macrophage formation may be the key to persistence of infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, explains a study published November 14 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely accepted that Upper Paleolithic early modern humans spread westward across Europe about 42,000 years ago, displacing and absorbing Neanderthal populations in the process. However, ...
California high school exit exam gets a failing grade in Stanford study
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Graduation rates for low-achieving minority students and girls have fallen nearly 20 percentage points since California implemented a law requiring high school students to pass exit exams in order to graduate, according to ...
