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Soft Drink Consumption May Markedly Increase Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
Consuming two or more soft drinks
per week increased the risk of
developing pancreatic cancer by
nearly twofold compared to
individuals who did not consume
soft drinks, according to a new
... > full story
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Evolution Impacts Environment: Fundamental Shift in How Biologists Perceive Relationship Between Evolution and Ecology
The traditional view is that
ecology shapes evolution. Some
research has suggested, however,
that evolutionary processes
reciprocate by influencing ecology
... > full story
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Small Insect With a Big Heart: 'Giving' Aphids Endangered by Their Selflessness
One of the founding principles of
Darwin's theory is that biological
evolution has been shaped by the
survival of the fittest. Things,
however, are not always that
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Like Escape Artists, Rotifers Elude Enemies by Drying Up and -- Poof! -- They Are Gone With the Wind
They haven't had sex in some 30
million years, but some very small
invertebrates named bdelloid
rotifers are still shocking
biologists -- they should have
... > full story
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Bees Recognize Human Faces Using Feature Configuration
Bees can be trained to recognize
human faces, so long as the
insects are tricked into thinking
that the faces are oddly shaped
flowers, new research shows. The
insects use the arrangement of
facial features to recognize and
... > full story
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Scientists Identify First Genetic Variant Linked to Biological Aging in Humans
Scientists announced they have
identified for the first time
definitive variants associated
with biological ageing in humans.
The new discovery has important
implications for the understanding
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Did Bacteria Develop Into More Complex Cells Much Earlier in Evolution Than Thought?
Biochemists have described the
process by which bacteria
developed into more complex cells
and found this crucial step
happened much earlier in the
... > full story
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Growing Cartilage: Bioactive Nanomaterial Promotes Growth of New Cartilage
Researchers have designed a
bioactive nanomaterial that
promotes the growth of new
cartilage in vivo and without the
use of expensive growth factors.
The therapy is minimally invasive,
... > full story
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Second 'Quantum Logic Clock' Based on Aluminum Ion Is Now World's Most Precise Clock
Physicists have built an enhanced
version of an experimental atomic
clock based on a single aluminum
atom that is now the world's most
precise clock, more than twice as
precise as the previous pacesetter
... > full story
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Migrating Insects Fly in the Fast Lane
Scientists shed new light on the
flight behaviors that enable
insects to undertake long-distance
migrations, and highlights the
remarkable abilities of these
insect migrants. ... > full story
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- Soft Drinks May Double Pancreatic Cancer Risk
- Evolution Impacts Environment: Big Shift
- Small Insect With a Big Heart
- Tiny Invertebrates Elude Enemies by Drying Up
- Bees Recognize Human Faces
- Human Aging Genetic Variant Discovered
- From Bacteria To Complex Cells: Much Earlier?
- Nanoscopic Material Enables Cartilage to Regrow
- Quantum Logic Clock Now World's Most Precise
- Migrating Insects Fly in the Fast Lane
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Enhancing Arrest of Cell Growth to Treat Cancer in Mice
February 9, 2010 — New research has identified a new type of cellular senescence (i.e., irreversible arrest of cell growth) and determined a way to enhance it to suppress prostate tumor development and growth in mice. ... > full story -
How Respiratory Tubes and Capillaries Form in Flies
February 9, 2010 — Scientists in Spain report on the formation of the small-diameter respiratory tubes of the fly Drosophila -- a process that resembles the development of the finest blood vessels, the capillaries, in ... > full story -
Rab25: A Suppressor of Tumor Formation in Intestines?
February 9, 2010 — Colorectal adenocarcinoma accounts for the majority of cases of colorectal cancer. A series of genetic mutations in the cells lining the colon (intestinal epithelial cells) is thought to be the cause ... > full story -
New Method for Measuring Fluid Flow in Algae Could Herald Revolution for Fluid Mechanics
February 9, 2010 — Researchers in fluid dynamics have studied algae to illuminate fluid mechanics. One of the researchers said, "Nature has long inspired researchers in fluid mechanics to explore the mechanical ... > full story -
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Is Over-Promoted Since Most Ex-Smokers Quit Unassisted, Experts Argue
February 9, 2010 — Health authorities should emphasize the positive message that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, despite the promotion of cessation drugs by pharmaceutical ... > full story
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Mice Shed New Light on Causes of Childhood Deafness
February 9, 2010 — Mice with a genetic change that causes progressive hearing loss in children, also have hearing loss because sound waves are not processed properly. The ear's attempts to compensate for hearing loss ... > full story -
'Boutique' Fish Farms Created for Ugandans to Combat Lake Victoria's Depleted Fish Supplies
February 9, 2010 — In a unique project to combat depleted fish supplies in Lake Victoria, researchers have established 'boutique' fish farms in small villages around the Lake's shore in ... > full story -
Complete Chemokine Profile of a Cell
February 9, 2010 — Chemokines are a large group of proteins whose predominant function is to direct cell migration. They regulate many physiological and pathophysiological processes, in particular in the immune system. ... > full story -
Method of the Future Uses Single-Cell Imaging to Identify Gene Interactions
February 9, 2010 — Cellular imaging offers a wealth of data about how cells respond to stimuli, but harnessing this technique to study biological systems is a daunting challenge. Researchers have now developed a novel ... > full story -
More Smokers Than Non-Smokers Accept HPV Vaccination for Their Daughters
February 9, 2010 — A parent's existing health habits or behaviors, like cigarette smoking, may influence the likelihood that they will have their daughters vaccinated against ... > full story
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Double Agent: Glial Cells Can Protect or Kill Neurons, Vision
February 8, 2010 — Scientists have identified a double agent in the eye that, once triggered, can morph from neuron protector to neuron killer. The discovery has significant health implications since the neurons killed ... > full story -
Better Sign of Blood Vessel Narrowing and Early Coronary Artery Disease
February 8, 2010 — Cardiologists and heart imaging specialists at 15 medical centers in eight countries have enrolled the first dozen patients in a year-long investigation to learn whether the subtle squeezing of blood ... > full story -
Genes That Regulate Maternal Inflammatory Response, Bacterial Vaginosis and Preterm Birth Related
February 8, 2010 — Researchers have used haplotype tagging (hap-tag) single-nucleotide polymorphisms to study the relationship between genetic predispositions, an environmental factor -- bacterial vaginosis -- and ... > full story -
Conservation from Space: Landscape Diversity Helps to Conserve Insects
February 8, 2010 — Rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations and thus aid their conservation, according to new findings. This has implications ... > full story -
People out and About Make Cities Secure
February 8, 2010 — Young people who have experienced threats and violence feel more insecure than others in urban public spaces, especially when ... > full story
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Link Between Advanced Maternal Age and Autism Confirmed
February 8, 2010 — Advanced maternal age is linked to a significantly elevated risk of having a child with autism, regardless of the father's age, according to an exhaustive study of all births in California during the ... > full story -
The Stars Behind the Curtain
February 8, 2010 — Astronomers have obtained a new image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and ... > full story -
Test Could Predict Which Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients Will Become Severely Ill
February 8, 2010 — A simple blood test could predict which patients with the lung-scarring disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are soon to get far worse, an indicator that could one day influence their ... > full story -
Agricultural Scientists Turn to a Wild Oat to Combat Crown Rust
February 8, 2010 — Scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats ... > full story -
Month of Birth Determines Who Becomes a Sports Star
February 8, 2010 — The month of your birth influences your chances of becoming a professional sportsperson, an Australian researcher has found. Scientists studied the seasonal patterns of population health and found ... > full story
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Industrial Cleaner Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease
February 8, 2010 — Workers exposed to tricholorethylene, a chemical once widely used to clean metal such as auto parts, may be at a significantly higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a new ... > full story -
'Starving' Fat Suppresses Appetite
February 8, 2010 — Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death (termed apoptosis) could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, say ... > full story -
Older Female Cancer Survivors Have Added Health Issues Compared to Their Counterparts
February 8, 2010 — As cancer survivors live longer, questions arise about what kind of care long-term survivors require. A recently study found 245 older married women who survived cancer had more health problems as ... > full story -
Argonautes: A Big Turn-Off for Proteins
February 8, 2010 — Scientists believe they may have figured out how genetic snippets called microRNAs are able to shut down the production of some ... > full story -
Hackers at the Movies
February 8, 2010 — Researchers in Ireland have analyzed 50 non-documentary movies from the last four decades featuring hackers and come to some intriguing conclusions about the hacker stereotype with implications for ... > full story
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Transforming Human Fat Into Stem Cells Using Virus-Free Technique
February 8, 2010 — Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists. Unlike other ... > full story -
Virology: Some Viruses Use Fats to Penetrate a Cell
February 8, 2010 — SV40 viruses use an amazing means of communication, in order to be able to penetrate into a cell: fats, whose structure must fit like a key in a ... > full story -
Promising Results Shown for Kidney Cancer Drug
February 8, 2010 — The drug pazopanib (Votrient) slowed the progression of advanced renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer, in patients by 54 percent, according to a new ... > full story -
Carbonate Veins Reveal Chemistry of Ancient Seawater
February 8, 2010 — The chemical composition of our oceans is not constant but has varied significantly over geological time. In a new study, researchers describe a novel method for reconstructing past ocean chemistry ... > full story -
Soft Intelligence for Hard Decisions: Soft Metrics Improve Homeland Security and Other Critical Decisions
February 8, 2010 — An approach to decision making based on soft metrics could allow problems to be solved where no definitive "yes-no" answer is possible in fields as diverse as health care, defense, economics, ... > full story
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Inhibiting Serotonin in Gut Could Cure Osteoporosis
February 8, 2010 — An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats, reports a new article. Serotonin in the gut has been shown ... > full story -
Cells Send Dirty Laundry Home to Mom
February 8, 2010 — Understanding how aged and damaged mother cells manage to form new and undamaged daughter cells is one of the toughest riddles of aging, but scientists now know how yeast cells do it. In a ... > full story -
Discovery May Expand Availability of Bone Marrow Transplants by Stopping Fatal Complications
February 8, 2010 — Scientists explain how an anti-inflammatory agent called "ATL146e" may significantly improve the likelihood of success for bone marrow transplants by preventing or halting the progression of ... > full story -
Biofilms: Discovery of a New Mechanism of Virus Propagation
February 8, 2010 — Researchers have shown for the first time that certain viruses are capable of forming complex biofilm-like assemblies, similar to bacterial biofilms. These extracellular infectious structures may ... > full story -
Winning the War on Weight
February 8, 2010 — An Australian study into the health beliefs and behaviors of obese people has found that the more severely obese a person is, the less likely they feel they can reduce their ... > full story
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Road Mapping Could Be Key to Curing TB
February 8, 2010 — The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis may be better understood using mathematical models, according to a new ... > full story -
Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in the Lab
February 8, 2010 — Understanding of the particular cancer cells within a tumour that drive its growth could now advance more rapidly, thanks to new research. Scientisist now show how a crucial class of cancer cell, ... > full story -
Important Advance in Imaging of Cell Death
February 8, 2010 — Scientists have made progress in using a synthetic probe to target dead and dying cells in mammary and prostate tumors in living ... > full story -
Novel Theory for Mammalian Stem Cell Regulation
February 8, 2010 — Researchers propose a model of mammalian adult stem cell regulation that may explain how the coexistence of two disparate stem cell states regulates both stem cell maintenance and simultaneously ... > full story -
Moms Influence How Children Develop Advanced Cognitive Functions
February 8, 2010 — Executive functioning is a set of advanced cognitive functions -- such as the ability to control impulses, remember things, and show mental flexibility -- that help us plan and monitor what we do to ... > full story
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Mice Shed New Light on Causes of Childhood Deafness
Mice with a genetic change that causes progressive hearing loss in children, also have hearing loss because sound waves are not processed properly. The ear's attempts to compensate for hearing loss ... > full story
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Double Agent: Glial Cells Can Protect or Kill Neurons, Vision
Scientists have identified a double agent in the eye that, once triggered, can morph from neuron protector to neuron killer. The discovery has significant health implications since the neurons killed ... > full story
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Month of Birth Determines Who Becomes a Sports Star
The month of your birth influences your chances of becoming a professional sportsperson, an Australian researcher has found. Scientists studied the seasonal patterns of population health and found ... > full story
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Complete Chemokine Profile of a Cell
Chemokines are a large group of proteins whose predominant function is to direct cell migration. They regulate many physiological and pathophysiological processes, in particular in the immune system. ... > full story
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'Boutique' Fish Farms Created for Ugandans to Combat Lake Victoria's Depleted Fish Supplies
In a unique project to combat depleted fish supplies in Lake Victoria, researchers have established 'boutique' fish farms in small villages around the Lake's shore in ... > full story
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Carbonate Veins Reveal Chemistry of Ancient Seawater
The chemical composition of our oceans is not constant but has varied significantly over geological time. In a new study, researchers describe a novel method for reconstructing past ocean chemistry ... > full story
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The Stars Behind the Curtain
Astronomers have obtained a new image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and ... > full story
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Industrial Cleaner Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease
Workers exposed to tricholorethylene, a chemical once widely used to clean metal such as auto parts, may be at a significantly higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a new ... > full story
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Hackers at the Movies
Researchers in Ireland have analyzed 50 non-documentary movies from the last four decades featuring hackers and come to some intriguing conclusions about the hacker stereotype with implications for ... > full story
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