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for the Week of October 3 to October 10, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-09:
- Early lung cancer detection: Optical technology shows potential for prescreening patients at high risk
- Prediction of epileptic seizures by analyzing brain waves
- Microfluidic devices advance 3-D tissue engineering
- DNA repair capacity identified those at high risk for non-melanoma skin cancer
- Blind inventors develop free software to enable the blind to use computers
- Alienated youths are more likely to lash out, study finds
- New deep-sea hot springs discovered in Atlantic: Hydrothermal vents may contribute more to oceans' thermal budget
- Stem cells repair damaged spinal cord tissue
- Cassini catches Saturn moons in paintball fight
- Maternal influenza vaccination may be associated with flu protection in infants
- Voice phishing: System to trace telephone call paths across multiple networks developed
- Emotional effects of heavy combat can be lifelong for veterans
- Plants kick-started evolutionary drama of Earth's oxygenation
- Clue to unusual drug-resistant breast cancers found
- Discovery could impact how the body receives medicine
- Vaccinations should continue as influenza pandemics epidemics wane, experts urge
- Effects of hydrogen on growing carbon nanotubes
- Neighborhoods can have depressing effect on health, according to study
Posted 2010-10-09:
- Haze on Saturn's moon Titan may hold ingredients for life
- Researchers create experimental vaccine against Alzheimer's
- Killer disease decimates UK frog populations
- Doctors evaluating heart problems should consider checking fat deposits around the heart
- Measurements of CO<sub>2</sub> and CO in China's air indicate sharply improved combustion efficiency
- Half-time gamblers give stock market insight
- Yersinia pestis bacteria confirmed as cause of Middle Ages 'Black Death' plague epidemic
- In Parkinson's disease, brain cells abandon mitochondria
- Scientists trick bacteria into embedding small molecules in cell wall
- Melanoma uses body's immune system to spread to lungs
- NASA's WMAP project completes satellite operations: Mission observed universe's oldest light
- You may not be able to say how you feel about your race
- Bacteria can stand-up and 'walk'
- Persistently noisy workplace more than doubles heart disease risk
- Brain changes found in high school football players thought to be concussion-free
- How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics
- Tracking device fits on the head of a pin: Mini-gyroscopes to guide smartphones and medical equipment
- Low Apgar score at birth linked to cerebral palsy
- Men perspire, women glow: Men are more efficient at sweating, study finds
- Ultrasound device improves poor bone healing
- Female fish flaunt fins to attract a mate
- Stem cells shape up to their surroundings
- Chemists simplify biodiesel conversion
- Thoughts about time inspire people to socialize
- 'Living dinosaurs' in space: Galaxies in today's Universe thought to have existed only in distant past
- Breast density linked to increased risk of subsequent breast cancer
- Transgenic corn suppresses European corn borer, saves farmers billions
- X-ray for your genes: Researcher takes the next step in personalized medicine
- Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom
- Patient personality can hinder detection of depression, research finds
- Family ties bind desert lizards in social groups
- Novel protein critical for cellular proliferation discovered
- Researchers find no visible oil sands off Florida Panhandle, Alabama beaches
- Study disproves link between genetic variant, risk of coronary artery disease
- Elusive intermediary: Newly discovered protein may help improve crop yields, solar cells
- Self-injury behavior not recognized in many youths with eating disorders
- Too much of a good thing: Human activities overload ecosystems with nitrogen
- How immune system B-cells react to very different substances
- New tool in the fight against tuberculosis: Algorithm enables cell-scale simulations
- Novel reference material to standardize gene therapy applications
- Structure of plastic solar cells impedes their efficiency
- Consistent evidence: Speed cameras do reduce injuries and deaths, Australian study finds
Posted 2010-10-08:
- Hubble astronomers uncover an overheated early universe
- Large waist size linked to higher diabetes rates among Americans compared to English
- Real price of each pack of cigarettes is nearly 0, Spanish study finds
- Osteoporosis drug may help women with kidney disease, researchers find
- New computer switches handle heat that renders transistors useless; Work takes a page from Victorian inventor
- Childhood adversity may lead to unhealthy stress response in adult life
- Volcanoes wiped out Neanderthals, new study suggests
- Bacteria to blame in asthma attacks in children, research suggests
- Surprise: Two wheels safer than four in off-road riding and racing, study finds
- Research identifies the herbal supplements that are effective in treating anxiety
- Norwegian researchers at forefront of oil spill modelling after Deepwater Horizon accident
- Neural responses indicate our willingness to help
- Water discovered on second asteroid, may be even more common
- Mechanism for changing adult cells into stem-like cells discovered
- Crop failures set to increase under climate change
- New drug blocks morphine's effects on breathing -- but not on pain
- Bacteria keep tabs on state of oil field
- Americans' life expectancy gains continues to fall behind -- but don't blame obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities, and homicide
- Rare Japanese plant has largest genome known to science
- Air pollution linked to breast cancer, study suggests
- Vultures use face flushing technique for instant status updates
- Number of synapses shown to vary between night and day, zebrafish study finds
- Fish near coal-fired power plants have lower levels of mercury
- Light drinking during pregnancy: Harmful to child's behavioral or intellectual development?
- Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics, new research shows
- T cell discovery shows promise for Type 1 diabetes treatment
- Volcano fuels massive phytoplankton bloom
- Surgeons expand the use of scar-free surgical technique to more patients
- Quantum computing research edges toward practicality
- Nature’s sights and sounds -- but not cityscapes and noise -- ease spinal pain during bone marrow extractions
- Long-extinct passenger pigeon finds a place in the family tree
- New findings pull back curtain on relationship between iron and Alzheimer's disease
- Hormone acting as 'molecular glue' could boost plant immune systems
- Immune system linked with accumulation of toxic tau protein
- BLADE software eliminates 'drive-by downloads' from malicious websites
- Drug that helps adults addicted to opioid drugs also relieves withdrawal symptoms in newborns
- Neuroscience research may help patients recover from brain injury
- Blood pressure breakthrough holds real hope for treatment of pre-eclampsia
- Deep-sea coral reefs discovered in Mediterranean
- Vitamin D deficiency rampant in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, damaging patient recovery
- New computer modelling system predicts responses to HIV and AIDS treatments
- Stressed-out mums may worsen their child's asthma
- Decline in Sun's activity does not always mean that Earth becomes cooler, study shows
- First clinical trial of gene therapy for muscular dystrophy lends insight into the disease
- Best drug development results from computer/test tube combination
- Children, males and blacks are at increased risk for food allergies, study finds
- Fuel cells in operation: A closer look
- Researchers calculate societal costs of five major crimes; Finds murder at .25 million
- Author who revealed unethical Guatemala syphilis study writes for Bioethics Forum
- Greater priority should be given to stroke prevention in developing countries, academic urges
- Georgia Tech Information Security Center releases cyber threats forecast for 2011
- Poverty grows in suburbs, but social services don't keep up
Posted 2010-10-07:
- From eye to brain: Researchers map functional connections between retinal neurons at single-cell resolution
- Breakthrough test rapidly identifies river blindness
- New role for master regulator in cell metabolism, response to stress: Clinical implications for obesity, diabetes and cancer research
- Vitamin D supplements do not increase bone density in healthy children, review finds
- Doppler radars help increase monsoon rainfall prediction accuracy
- Phillies, Rangers, Yanks, Giants to win, says math guru
- New fossil suggests dinosaurs not so fierce after all
- MRI may predict continued decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment
- Bee pastures may help pollinators prosper
- Nano drugs: Insoluble medicines can be made orally available if in nano crystal form
- Designing instruments for a robotic space probe to the Sun
- Maggot art used to educate youngsters
- New type of liquid crystal promises to improve performance of digital displays
- Air pollution alters immune function, worsens asthma symptoms, study finds
- Land on your toes, save your knees
- New class of objects encoded within the genome: Non-coding RNA molecules function similar to gene enhancer elements
- Possible green replacement for asphalt derived from petroleum to be tested on Iowa bike trail
- Sociologist ties childhood bullying traits to adult anti-social behavior
- Oldest evidence of dinosaurs in footprints: Dinosaur lineage emerged soon after massive Permian extinction
- Fattening pollutants? Chemicals in mother’s blood contribute to child’s obesity, study suggests
- Climate change affects horseshoe crab numbers
- Anti-tumor drugs tested by microfluidic device
- New graphene fabrication method uses silicon carbide templates to create desired growth
- Psychologist finds 'shocking' impact on name recall
- 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Creating complex carbon-based molecules using palladium
- Powerful free radical causes lung damage from oxygen therapy
- Geothermal mapping project reveals large, green energy source in West Virginia
- New way to explain the leading cause of kidney failure
- Gem of an idea: A flexible diamond-studded electrode implanted for life
- Deep brain stimulation may help patients with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Brain cell communication: Why it's so fast
- Fish oil linked to increased risk of colon cancer in mice
- Bricks made with wool
- Umbilical cord blood not suitable for assessing allergy risk
- Antarctic sea ice increase not linked to ozone hole, new research shows
- Depression during pregnancy increases risk for preterm birth and low birth weight
- Rare oasis of life discovered near geothermal vents on floor of Yellowstone Lake
- For cardiac arrest CPR performed by laypersons, chest compression-only may lead to better outcomes
- NASA mission 'E-Minus' one month to comet flyby
- Children with idiopathic new-onset epilepsy: Study confirms favorable long-term prognosis
- Nano design, just like in nature
- Teen drunkenness levels converge across cultures, by gender
- Key reproductive hormone in oldest living vertebrate identified
- 'Paradign shift' in how physicians treat peripheral artery disease
- NASA's WISE mission warms up but keeps chugging along
- Study examines ICU outbreak of staph aureus with resistance to methicillin and linezolid
- Invasive tallowtree spreading rapidly across Gulf coast
- Web-based creativity: Can working in virtual communities be more effective than face-to-face cooperation?
- Call to heal the world's coral reefs
- Swedish Research Council to bar cheaters
- Skin color linked to social inequality in contemporary Mexico, study shows
- Experts advocate realigning type 2 diabetes treatments with disease's natural history
Posted 2010-10-06:
- Novelty and complexity are result of small evolutionary changes
- Growth factor essential to epicardial cell function: Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) plays role in heart regeneration
- WISE captures key images of comet mission's destination
- Limited number of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes cause most invasive pneumococcal disease
- Earth's rotation affects flows in submarine channels
- Is your job making you fat? Study links office work with obesity
- Thirst for excitement is hidden in your genes
- Low testosterone linked to Alzheimer's disease
- MAVEN mission to investigate how Sun steals Martian atmosphere
- Researchers pool data to search for genetic risks in heart disease
- Geoengineering solutions could prevent irreversible climate crisis, study finds
- Top reasons for Facebook unfriending
- Newly discovered DNA repair mechanism
- Mice with human body's defenses
- Wind farms extend growing season in certain regions
- MicroRNA that may allow for better control cholesterol levels in blood identified
- Invaders could devastate Florida avocado industry
- Neanderthals had feelings too, say researchers
- New language identified in remote corner of India; One of thousands of endangered tongues around world
- Amino acid supplement makes mice live longer
- The world is full of darkness, reflected in the physiology of the human retina
- Ancient Colorado river flowed backwards
- How rainfall variation can trigger earthquakes
- Unemployment linked with child maltreatment
- Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for graphene -- 'two-dimensional' material
- Identifying enzymes to explode superbugs
- Cluster helps disentangle turbulence in the solar wind
- ADHD more common in offspring of mothers with genetic serotonin deficiencies
- Scientist compares classical singing to traditional Indian singing to find speech disorder treatment
- Interactive video games can cause a broad range of injuries
- Europa's hidden ice chemistry: Jupiter's moon may have more than possible ocean
- Surprise: Scientists discover that inflammation helps to heal wounds
- Climate change hits southeast Australia fish species
- Sleep loss limits fat loss
- Audio zooming to enhance TV viewing
- How gender is created during everyday life at preschool
- First Census of Marine Life shows ocean life is richer, more connected, more altered than expected
- Why fat thighs are not as bad as a fat abdomen
- Microbes engineered for low-cost production of anti-cancer drug, Taxol
- Biomarkers for personalizing radiation cancer treatment identified
- A step toward lead-free electronics
- Mental health courts appear to shorten jail time, reduce re-arrest for those with psychiatric illness
- Alarming increase in flow of water into oceans due to global warming, accelerated cycle of evaporation, precipitation
- New clues on why some people with Parkinson's die sooner
- New method for genome analysis identifies the genetic effect of a rare form of mental retardation
- Loss of nutrients following gastric bypass surgery in adolescent girls
- Quantum error correcting code discovered
- Child maltreatment investigations not associated with improvements in household risk factors
- New fisheries system will save about million, researchers find
- Early use of hypertonic fluids does not appear to improve outcomes for severe traumatic brain injury
- Less invasive method to measure groundwater permeability
- San Diego Supercomputer Center participates in first 'Census of Marine Life'
Posted 2010-10-05:
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards for IVF fertilization
- Mechanism involved in addictions and some forms of obesity discovered
- Walnuts, walnut oil, improve reaction to stress
- Possible biomarker to identify seizure-related stress
- NASA's Webb telescope MIRI instrument takes one step closer to space
- Children with ADHD at increased risk for depression and suicidal thoughts as adolescents
- DNA art imitates life: Construction of a nanoscale Mobius strip
- Vaccine extends survival for patients with deadly brain cancers
- The secret life of Ireland's smooth-hound sharks
- Substance that plays key role in bone density could lead to new osteoporosis treatments
- Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan filled with liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane, not water
- Mimicking other's language style shows a happy relationship, study suggests
- Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of life
- Discovery of a cell that suppresses the immune system
- Protecting embryos against microbes
- Life threatening breathing disorder of Rett syndrome prevented
- Bioenergy choices could dramatically change Midwest, US, bird diversity
- It's time to phase out codeine, researchers urge
- Physicists control chemical reactions mechanically
- Elasticity found to stretch stem cell growth to higher levels
- Surprising silk: Proteins become more concentrated when diluted
- New target to improve pain management identified
- Painless way to achieve huge energy savings: Stop wasting food
- Wasps wage war on behalf of wiliwili trees
- What makes us age? Ticking of cellular clock promotes seismic changes in chromatin landscape associated with aging
- Light used to make the heart stumble
- Tennis grunting: Study reveals surprising effects
- Morning sickness: Still no relief, review finds
- Designer’s door could prove a real lifesaver in earthquake emergency
- Children as young as 12 months can reach a countertop; Puts them at risk for severe burns
- Which fertilized eggs will become healthy human fetuses? Researchers predict with 93% accuracy
- Possible method for boosting the immune system to protect infants against HIV
- How salmonella bacteria spread in humans
- Genomic study of malaria parasite in Peru reveals evidence of antibiotic resistance
- Ocean conditions likely to reduce Colorado River flows during this winter's drought
- Lack of private health insurance impacts cancer survival, research finds
- Fungal spores travel farther by surfing their own wind
- Parkinson's: Excess of protein suggests new target for treatment with widely used anti-cancer drug imatinib
- Experts urge making cigarettes non-addictive a research priority
- In pregnancy, a large waistline and high triglycerides: Early screen for gestational diabetes
- Dual nature of dew: Researcher measures the effect of dew on desert plants
- Are pre-teen babysitters able to deal with emergencies?
- An elegant galaxy in an unusual light
- Gene variations that alter key enzyme linked to prostate cancer
- Noise and chemicals: Workers are losing their hearing, Spanish study finds
- 'Hi-JAK-ing' cancer by inhibiting Jak2
- Launch of Germ Genie to kill keyboard germs
- Memory impairment common in people with a history of cancer
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