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Data on Financial Crime Is Not Credible, UK Research Finds
December 13, 2012 The UK Government and police efforts to tackle financial crime -- from business fraud to tax evasion -- are hampered by a lack of accurate data about the nature and extent of offending, according to ... > full story -
Medical Researchers Discover New Potential Chemotherapy
December 13, 2012 Medical researchers have discovered that knocking out a particular "partner" gene is the Achilles' heel of some ... > full story -
Bugs Without Borders: Researchers Track the Emergence and Global Spread of Healthcare Associated Clostridium Difficile
December 9, 2012 Researchers show that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI in the early to mid-2000s was caused by the spread of two different but highly related strains of the bacterium rather ... > full story -
Deception Can Be Perfected: Can a Repeated Lie Become 'a Truth? '
December 6, 2012 With a little practice, one could learn to tell a lie that may be indistinguishable from the truth. New research shows that lying is more malleable than previously thought, and with a certain amount ... > full story -
Study Raises Concerns Over Online Availability of Alternatives to Illegal Drugs
December 6, 2012 Recreational drug users may be putting their health at risk by ingesting products containing dangerous and often prohibited substances, purchased legally via the ... > full story -
My Microbes: New Genetic Fingerprint Lives in Your Gut
December 5, 2012 Our bodies contain far more microbial genes than human genes. And a new study suggests that just as human DNA varies from person to person, so too does the massive collection of microbial DNA in the ... > full story -
Evolution: Social Exclusion Leads to Cooperation
December 5, 2012 Social exclusion as a punishment strategy helps explain the evolution of cooperation, according to new ... > full story -
Unique 'Anonymous Delivery' Law Effective in Decreasing Rates of Neonaticide in Austria, Study Finds
December 5, 2012 Rates of reported neonaticide have more than halved following the implementation of a unique 'anonymous delivery' law in Austria, finds a new ... > full story -
Fox Invasion Threatens Wave of Extinction in Tasmania
December 4, 2012 The effort to stop the irreversible spread of foxes in Tasmania is at a critical stage with many native species at risk of extinction, new research ... > full story -
Corn: Many Active Genes -- High Yield
December 3, 2012 Hybrid plants provide much higher yield than their homozygous parents. Plant breeders have known this for more than 100 years and used this effect called heterosis for richer harvests. Until now, ... > full story
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