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Baldness Gene Discovered: 1 In 7 Men At Risk
Researchers have identified two
genetic variants in Caucasians
that together produce an
astounding sevenfold increase the
risk of male pattern baldness. ... > full story
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Insects Trained In Quest For Artificial Nose
Researchers have discovered that
when training insects, the process
of building associations is not a
simple matter of strengthening
connections through reinforcement.
Understanding how associations are
built between stimuli and behavior
... > full story
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Brainy Genes, Not Brawn, Key To Success On Mussel Beach
Scientists have found that mussels
in their natural habitat express
their genes in cyclic waves, in
what appears to be a survival
strategy akin to the circadian
rhythms that govern sleep. In
addition, two sets of genes used
... > full story
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How Dust Rings Point To Exo-Earths With Supercomputer's Help
Supercomputer simulations of dusty
disks around sunlike stars show
that planets nearly as small as
Mars can create patterns that
future telescopes may be able to
detect. The research points to a
... > full story
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Digital Zebrafish Embryo Provides First Complete Developmental Blueprint Of A Vertebrate
Researchers in Europe have
generated a digital zebrafish
embryo -- the first complete
developmental blueprint of a
vertebrate. With a new microscope
... > full story
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Unlocking Stem Cell, DNA Secrets To Speed Therapies
Researchers have discovered that
as embryonic stem cells turn into
different cell types, there are
dramatic corresponding changes to
the order in which DNA is
replicated and reorganized. ... > full story
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'Virgin Birth' By Shark Confirmed: Second Case Ever
Scientists have confirmed the
second-ever case of a "virgin
birth" in a shark, indicating once
again that female sharks can
reproduce without mating and
raising the possibility that many
female sharks have this incredible
... > full story
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Astronomers Get Best View Yet Of Infant Stars At Feeding Time
Astronomers have used ESO's Very
Large Telescope Interferometer to
conduct the first high resolution
survey that combines spectroscopy
and interferometry on
intermediate-mass infant stars.
... > full story
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Can Genetic Information Be Controlled By Light?
Can genetic information be
controlled by light? Researchers
report sequence-dependent effects
of light on DNA. DNA, the molecule
that acts as the carrier of
genetic information in all forms
of life, is highly resistant
... > full story
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Journey Toward The Center Of The Earth: One-of-a-kind Microorganism Lives All Alone
The first ecosystem with only a
single biological species has been
discovered and its genome analyzed
by a multi-institutional and
multidisciplinary team. Living 2.8
... > full story
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- Baldness Gene Discovered: 1 In 7 Men At Risk
- Insects Trained In Quest For Artificial Nose
- Brainy Genes, Not Brawn, Key To Mussel Success
- Dust Rings Can Point To Exo-Earths
- Digital Zebrafish Embryo: Vertebrate Blueprint
- Stem Cell, DNA Secrets To Speed Therapies
- 'Virgin Birth' By Shark: Second Case Ever
- Astronomers Spy Infant Stars At Feeding Time
- Can Genetic Information Be Controlled By Light?
- Microorganism Lives All Alone Deep Underground
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Thinner Cortex In Cocaine Addicts May Reflect Drug Use And A Pre-existing Disposition To Drug Abuse
October 13, 2008 — New research findings suggest that structural abnormalities in the brains of cocaine addicts are related in part to drug use and in part to a predisposition toward addiction. The research maps the ... > full story -
Engineering Aluminum-tolerant Crop Plants: Biochemists Devise Method For Bypassing Toxicity Effects
October 13, 2008 — Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land. Now biochemists have ... > full story -
Radio-frequency Identification Reduces Specimen Labeling Errors
October 13, 2008 — With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed at reducing ... > full story -
Paving The Way Towards Optical Sensing Foils
October 13, 2008 — Scientists have made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate. The links include optical waveguides, light sources, and detectors. With this technique, it becomes possible ... > full story -
Parents Foster Significant Misperceptions Of Children's Weight
October 13, 2008 — Results of a survey have revealed that many parents do not accurately perceive their children as overweight or at risk for adulthood obesity. Obesity in the United States is often accompanied by an ... > full story
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Fat-regenerating 'Stem Cells' Found In Mice
October 12, 2008 — Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew themselves, transplants of the progenitor cells isolated from the fat ... > full story -
Preserved By Ice: Glacial Dams Helped Prevent Erosion Of Tibetan Plateau
October 12, 2008 — New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those ... > full story -
Pollution From Livestock Farming Affects Infant Health
October 12, 2008 — A new study finds that pollution from livestock facilities is associated with an increase in infant ... > full story -
Gut Reaction To Arsenic Exposure Simulated
October 12, 2008 — A simulated gastrointestinal system is helping scientists test contaminated soil for its potential to harm humans. The method is likely to save time and money for people hoping to repurpose land with ... > full story -
Babies And Beethoven: Infants Can Tell Happy Songs From Sad
October 12, 2008 — A new study shows that 5-month-old babies can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. By age 9 months, babies can do ... > full story
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Important Clue To Learning Deficit In Children With Autism
October 12, 2008 — An important clue to why children with autism spectrum disorders have trouble imitating others has been discovered: they spend less time looking at the faces of people who are modeling new ... > full story -
RNA Molecules, Delivery System Improve Vaccine Responses, Effectiveness
October 12, 2008 — A novel delivery system that could lead to more efficient and more disease-specific vaccines against infectious diseases has been developed by biomedical ... > full story -
Tamoxifen Chemoprevention Tied To Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
October 12, 2008 — The drug tamoxifen does not prevent or treat estrogen receptor negative breast cancer, but it can make the disease easier to find, researchers report in the Oct. 1 Journal of the National Cancer ... > full story -
Scientists Explore Putting Electric Cars On A Two-way Power Street
October 12, 2008 — Think of it as the end of cars' slacker days: No more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by providing power to the electricity grid. ... > full story -
Does It Matter If Black Plus White Equals Black Or Multiracial?
October 12, 2008 — "Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. Should such racial characterizations of people like Obama -- who have one black parent and one white parent -- really matter? ... > full story
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Eliminating Viral Vector In Stem Cell Reprogramming
October 12, 2008 — Scientists have eliminated the need for a viral vector in the stem cell reprogramming process In a report in Science, they showed the ability to reprogram adult cells into iPS cells without viral ... > full story -
Future Risk Of Hurricanes: The Role Of Climate Change
October 12, 2008 — Researchers are homing in on the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to assess the likely changes, between now and the middle of the century, in the frequency, intensity, and tracks of ... > full story -
Hodgkin Lymphoma: New Characteristics Discovered; Cytokines Help Tumor Cells Evade Immune System
October 12, 2008 — Researchers are still discovering new characteristics of Hodgkin lymphoma, a common form of cancer of the lymphatic system. Researchers in Germany have now demonstrated the production of interleukin ... > full story -
New Tool Probes Function Of Rice Genes
October 12, 2008 — Researchers have developed a new tool for investigating the rice genome. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray covers nearly all the 45,000 genes in the rice ... > full story -
Religiosity Curbs Teen Marijuana Use By Half, National Study Finds
October 12, 2008 — While many congregations of different faiths preach against drug abuse, it has been unclear whether a youth's religious involvement has any effect on his risk of drug abuse. Now a new national study ... > full story
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Statins May Prevent Miscarriages, Study Suggests
October 11, 2008 — Hospital for Special Surgery researchers have found that statins may be able to prevent miscarriages in women who are suffering from pregnancy complications caused by antiphospholipid syndrome, ... > full story -
Extending The Life Of Fresh Cranberries
October 11, 2008 — Cranberries are tart, tiny fruits packed with powerful antioxidants. The good news about cranberries is spreading, resulting in growing consumer demand for fresh cranberries and cranberry products. ... > full story -
Key Proteins In Blood Stem Cell Replication Pinpointed
October 11, 2008 — A discovery from Stanford researchers is the first to directly link the notorious members of the retinoblastoma family of proteins to the cellular production factories responsible for churning out ... > full story -
Waterborne Disease Risk Upped In Great Lakes
October 11, 2008 — An anticipated increased incidence of climate-related extreme rainfall events in the Great Lakes region may raise the public health risk for the 40 million people who depend on the lakes for their ... > full story -
Tobacco Smuggling Is Killing More People Than Illegal Drugs, Experts Claim
October 11, 2008 — Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year -- four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together -- but the UK government is not doing ... > full story
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New Findings May Improve Treatment Of Inherited Breast Cancer
October 11, 2008 — Scientists have identified some of the elusive downstream molecules that play a critical role in the development and progression of familial breast cancer. The research also identifies a compound ... > full story -
Understanding The Cycle Of Violence
October 11, 2008 — Researchers have long known that children who grow up in an aggressive or violent household are more likely to become violent or aggressive in future relationships but the developmental link has been ... > full story -
Breast Stem Cell Fate Is Regulated By 'Notch'
October 11, 2008 — A normal developmental protein that sometimes goes awry has been implicated in breast cancer. This discovery indicates the mechanism by which inappropriate expression of the notch pathway may ... > full story -
Reality To Go: 3-D Virtual Reality On Mobile Devices
October 11, 2008 — If mere texting, talking, e-mailing and snapping pictures on mobile devices aren't enough to satisfy your data cravings, now there's the prospect of accessing and displaying 3-D virtual reality ... > full story -
Can Taking Ecstasy Once Damage Your Memory?
October 11, 2008 — Academics in the UK are issuing new warnings about the dangers of ecstasy and its effects on the ... > full story
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Crucial Control In Long-lasting Immunity Discovered
October 11, 2008 — Scientists have identified a protein that links two key types of white blood cells, T and B cells, letting them interact in a way that is crucial to establishing long-lasting immunity after an ... > full story -
Phoenix Lander Digs And Analyzes Soil As Darkness Gathers
October 11, 2008 — As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for ... > full story -
Implantable Device May Help Manage Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms
October 11, 2008 — A new study aims to improve the heart's pumping action and help to manage congestive heart failure symptoms. The US PARACHUTE trial tests the effectiveness of placing a small device in the left ... > full story -
Potential New Tool For Brain Surgeons
October 11, 2008 — One of the primary ways of treating brain cancer is surgically removing the tumors. The risk of this sort of procedure is obvious -- it involves cutting away tissue from the brain, potentially ... > full story -
Sixties Generation Is Heading For Conventional Old Age
October 11, 2008 — Britain's post-war baby boomers, associated throughout their lives with social change, are failing to break new ground in their approach to growing ... > full story
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Rapid Improvement In Overactive Bladder Symptoms, International Drug Study Shows
October 10, 2008 — Patients with overactive bladders who took part in a multi-centre study to measure the effectiveness of solifenacin noticed improvements in as little as three days, according to new ... > full story -
Mimicking Gecko Feet: Dry Adhesive Based On Carbon Nanotubes Gets Stronger
October 10, 2008 — The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive just got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported by US ... > full story -
Early Breast Cancer: LHRH Agonists Show Considerable Promise
October 10, 2008 — Women who have had early stage breast cancer surgically removed, and whose tumor cells are stimulated by the hormone estrogen, can benefit from taking luteinizing hormone releasing hormone ... > full story -
Biological Alternatives To Chemical Pesticides
October 10, 2008 — With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimize the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and vegetables, a new study looks at why there is currently little use of ... > full story -
Scientists Adapt Economics Theory To Trace Brain's Information Flow
October 10, 2008 — Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part ... > full story
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Fat-regenerating 'Stem Cells' Found In Mice
Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew themselves, transplants of the progenitor cells isolated from the fat ... > full story
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Important Clue To Learning Deficit In Children With Autism
An important clue to why children with autism spectrum disorders have trouble imitating others has been discovered: they spend less time looking at the faces of people who are modeling new ... > full story
Living Well
Babies And Beethoven: Infants Can Tell Happy Songs From Sad
A new study shows that 5-month-old babies can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. By age 9 months, babies can do ... > full story
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Plants & Animals
Eliminating Viral Vector In Stem Cell Reprogramming
Scientists have eliminated the need for a viral vector in the stem cell reprogramming process In a report in Science, they showed the ability to reprogram adult cells into iPS cells without viral ... > full story
Earth & Climate
Preserved By Ice: Glacial Dams Helped Prevent Erosion Of Tibetan Plateau
New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those ... > full story
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Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity
New research argues in favor of a "sick earth" mechanism for most extinctions, rather than external event like an asteroid ... > full story
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Phoenix Lander Digs And Analyzes Soil As Darkness Gathers
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for ... > full story
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Scientists Explore Putting Electric Cars On A Two-way Power Street
Think of it as the end of cars' slacker days: No more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by providing power to the electricity grid. ... > full story
Computers & Math
Reality To Go: 3-D Virtual Reality On Mobile Devices
If mere texting, talking, e-mailing and snapping pictures on mobile devices aren't enough to satisfy your data cravings, now there's the prospect of accessing and displaying 3-D virtual reality ... > full story
