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Risk of blood clot after surgery higher and lasts longer than previously thought

Medicine & Health / Other

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The risk of having a potentially fatal blood clot after surgery is higher and lasts for longer than had previously been thought, concludes new research published in the British Medical Journal today.


The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff — placed between lip and gum — has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's ...


Random DNA mix-ups not so random in cancer development

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer - ...


Turbulence around heat transport

Turbulence around heat transport

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat transport in the earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought.



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