Evolution Of Gene Regulation: How Microbial Neighbors Settle Differences
Supply and demand could be a governing principle even at the genetic level, because most genes are only expressed when needed. New results show that, in microbes, evolutionary factors determine which regulation mechanism will regulate a given gene.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
NASA Supercomputing Goes Green: Modeling Earth's Ocean Climate
Earth scientists are reaping huge benefits from research performed on NASA's advanced supercomputers. New cube-based simulations are helping to improve estimates of ocean circulation and climate.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Arthritis Drug Might Prove Effective In Fighting The Flu, Study Suggests
Researchers have found that an approved drug for treating rheumatoid arthritis reduces severe illness and death in mice exposed to the Influenza A virus. Their findings suggest that tempering the response of the body's immune system to influenza...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Activated Stem Cells In Damaged Lungs Could Be First Step Toward Cancer
Stem cells that respond after a severe injury in the lungs of mice may be a source of rapidly dividing cells that lead to lung cancer, according to a new research.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/dM2XMo-aP6M" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Sleeping Through Dialysis: No Nightmare For Kidney Patients
Dialysis takes hours of kidney disease patients' time several days a week, so why not do it at night while sleeping? Overnight dialysis is more convenient for some patients and offers significant benefits over shorter daytime treatments, according to a...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Telemedicine May Improve Care For School Children With Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic childhood disease. The management of this serious medical condition includes regular fingerstick glucose measurements, multiple daily injections of insulin, and frequent insulin dose adjustments. Because...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Mock CPR Drills In Kids Show Many Hospital Residents Fail In Key Skills
New research exposes alarming gaps in training hospital residents in "first response" emergency treatment of staged cardiorespiratory arrests in children, while at the same time offering a potent recipe for fixing the problem.img...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Using 'Dominance' To Explain Dog Behavior Is Old Hat
A new study shows how the behavior of dogs has been misunderstood for generations: in fact using misplaced ideas about dog behavior and training is likely to cause rather than cure unwanted behavior. The findings challenge many of the dominance related...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Fire And Water Reveal New Archaeological Dating Method
Scientists have developed a new way of dating archaeological objects -- using fire and water to unlock their "internal clocks."img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/bw7KJSYOtsk" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
Nimbus Rises In World Of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking about cloud computing as the way of the...
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General Science | Monday May 25
HIV's March Around Europe Mapped
Those traveling abroad should take seriously advice to pack their condoms and keep their needles to themselves. Research shows that tourists, travelers and migrants from Greece, Portugal, Serbia and Spain actively export HIV-1 subtype B to other...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Mystery Of Potentially Fatal Reaction To Smallpox Vaccine Solved
Researchers have pinpointed the cellular defect that increases the likelihood, among eczema sufferers, of developing eczema vaccinatum, a severe and potentially fatal reaction to the smallpox vaccine. The research was conducted in mouse models. The...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Opposites Attract: How Genetics Influences Humans To Choose Their Mates
New light has been thrown on how humans choose their partners. Research has shown that people with diverse major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) were more likely to choose each other as mates than those whose MHCs were similar, and that this was...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Siblings Of Children With Cancer Feel Left Out
Siblings of cancer victims often feel left out and have nobody to share their grief with. However, the illness may help strengthen the bond between a healthy and a cancer-stricken sibling.img...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Multiferroics: Making A Switch The Electric Way
Researchers have demonstrated that electric fields can be used as ON/OFF switches in multiferroic materials, a development that holds promise for future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices.img...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Mockingbirds In Fickle Climates Sing Fancier Tunes
Why are some birds simple singers and others vocal virtuosos? Researchers suspect that inconsistent climates may play a role.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/LGR22YqLH60" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
Function Of Key Protein In Cancer Spread Described
New research may help lay the groundwork for the development of a compound to prevent the spread of cancer.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/6NRPEd9hKvw" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
Historic Hubble Servicing Mission 4 Ends With Successful Landing
The historic and successful Hubble Servicing Mission 4 concluded with a trouble-free Space Shuttle landing on Sunday. During a series of unprecedented spacewalks, astronauts replaced and repaired a total of four instruments. The Wide Field Camera 3 and...
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General Science | Monday May 25
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General Science | Monday May 25
Novel Approach Estimates Nanoparticles In Environment
Without knowing how much of an industrial chemical is being produced, it is almost impossible for scientists to determine if it poses any threat to the environment or human health. Civil engineers now believe they have come up with a novel way of...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Yeast Missing Sex Genes Undergo Unexpected Sexual Reproduction
An emerging form of the pathogenic yeast Candida is able to complete a full sexual cycle in a test tube, even though it's missing the genes for reproduction. And it may also do so while infecting us, according to researchers.img...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Diabetics' Heart Attack Risk Can Be Reduced, Research Finds
People with diabetes who maintain intensive, low blood sugar levels are significantly less likely to suffer heart attacks and coronary heart disease, new research has shown.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/cLtwvwfOhxw"...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Immunomagnetic Beads Can Attract Plague Bacteria
Scientists have used antibody-coated immunomagnetic beads (IMBs) to detect the bacterium that causes bubonic plague.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Jf2QYFVv-iE" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
'Happy Hour' Gene Discovery Suggests Cancer Drugs Might Treat Alcoholism
A class of drugs already approved as cancer treatments might also help to beat alcohol addiction. That's the conclusion of a discovery in flies of a gene, dubbed "happy hour," that has an important and previously unknown role in controlling the...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Virus Tamed To Destroy Cancer Cells But Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed
Scientists have tamed a virus so that it attacks and destroys cancer cells but does not harm healthy cells. They have determined how to produce replication-competent viruses with key toxicities removed, providing a new platform for development of...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Abusive Relationships Increase Women??™s Risk Of HIV Infection
A new study of nearly 14,000 U.S. women reveals that those who are in physically abusive relationships are at higher risk for HIV infection.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/48CbA0pvk9A" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
Ultraviolet LEDs Create Darker, Redder Lettuce Richer In Antioxidants
Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce. That's because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to have a variety of health benefits. Now plant...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Novel Mechanism Of Action Of Corticosteroids In Allergic Diseases
New research may explain the effectiveness of common treatments for allergic inflammation and may point the way to targets for new treatments for allergic diseases.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/TdRd4kKGTsE" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
Compound In Turmeric Spice May Stall Spread Of Fat Tissue
There may be a new way to spice up your weight loss routine, according to results from a new animal model study. Researchers theorized that dietary curcumin could stall the spread of fat-tissue by inhibiting new blood vessel growth, called...
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General Science | Monday May 25
'Eating For Two' Has Consequences For Mom And Baby
There is more medical evidence that pregnant women should steer clear of advice to "eat for two." Gaining too much weight is linked with complications at birth, such as pre-eclampsia or requiring a C-section, as well as higher odds that both mom and...
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General Science | Monday May 25
New 3-D Structural Model Of Critical H1N1 Protein Developed
Scientists report an evolutionary analysis of a critical protein produced by the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus strain.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/uBG3jjlJ2bM" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday May 25
Hydrogen Powered Municipal Vehicle Being Tested In Everyday Use
Scientists have developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle. The vehicle is named the "Bucher CityCat H2" and is the first municipal utility vehicle in the world powered by fuel cell technology. For the next 18 months it will be...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Salmonella's Sweet Tooth Predicts Its Downfall
For the first time scientists have shown what the food poisoning bug Salmonella feeds on to survive as it causes infection: glucose. Their discovery of Salmonella's weakness for sugar could provide a new way to vaccinate against it. The discovery could...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Retinopathy Linked In Diabetes
The eyes may be the window into the soul, but they may also contain important medical information. According to new research, patients with diabetes who have retinopathy should also be screened for obstructive sleep apnea.img...
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General Science | Monday May 25
Identification Of Protein Domain Contributes To Safer Food
Researchers have identified the protein component responsible for regulating innate immunity in humans and animals. They furthermore discovered that comparable changes in this regulating mechanism lead to comparable disruptions in human and plant...
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General Science | Monday May 25
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