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Grooving down the helix: Researchers show how proteins slide along DNA to carry out vital biological processes
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes.
Will 2010 be the breakout year for e-book readers?
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
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When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she would miss the smell and feel of real paper. She got her answer five months later.
High-risk women reluctant to take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer, study finds
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Even when women at high-risk of breast cancer are well-informed about the risks and benefits of using the drug tamoxifen for prevention, only 6 percent said they were likely to take it.
Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails
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(AP) -- House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn't ...
Breastfeeding protects women from metabolic syndrome, a diabetes and heart disease predictor
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Breastfeeding a child may lower a woman’s risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes in women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that was published today online ahead of print ...
The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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Fruit flies may seem like unlikely heroes in the battle against drug abuse, but new research suggests that these insects — already used to study dozens of human disease — could claim that role. Scientists ...
Study explains how exercise helps patients with peripheral artery disease
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Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy for PAD, and now a new study helps ...
Smoking cessation results mixed among Ohio's Appalachian women
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In the Appalachian region of the country — where smoking rates are high, tobacco is often a cash crop and income and education levels are low — a smoking cessation effort led by non-medical professionals was successful in ...
Music and speech based on human biology
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.
Secondhand smoke exposure in childhood increases lung cancer risk later in life
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Children exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer in adulthood, even if they never smoked.
Susceptibility predicts smoking risk among Mexican-American youth
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Whether non-smoking Mexican-American adolescents go on to experiment with smoking depends largely on their initial attitude toward the habit, researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the December issue of Cancer Ep ...
New study looks at unauthorized use of US newspaper stories
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A study of the use of US newspaper stories on the Web has found that more than 75,000 websites reused content from newspapers without authorization during a 30-day period.
STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The STPSat-1, built for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and operated by the DoD STP for the first year then transitioned to NRL for the last 16 months, was decommissioned on October ...
A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease (w/ Video)
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It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.
A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi, snagged in a search by a robotic telescope, turns out to be the first example of the kind of stars that first ...
