Can We Afford The Cancer Care Of The Future?
When a cancer patient and his or her doctor discuss the value of a treatment option, the conversation usually centers on a consideration of the treatment's medical benefits versus its possible side effects for the patient. Increasingly, however, as the...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
How Superbugs Control Their Lethal Weapons
It appears some superbugs have evolved to develop the ability to manipulate the immune system to everyone's advantage. Scientists have discovered some processes that reduce the lethal effects of toxins from superbugs, allowing humans and microbes to...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Oldest Evidence Of Leprosy Found In India
Anthropologists have recently reported on the analysis of a 4000-year-old skeleton from India bearing evidence of leprosy. This skeleton represents both the earliest archaeological evidence for human infection with Mycobacterium leprae in the world and...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Plant Min Protein Sits Tight And Rescues E. Coli
A protein vital for correct chloroplast division in plants is able to take on a similar role in bacterial cells, according to new research. The Arabidopsis thaliana Min protein (AtMinD) localizes in E. coli cells' polar regions keeping cell division at...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Preoperative Briefing Improves Communication, Reduces Errors
A short, preoperative team briefing prior to cardiac surgery -- where each person on the team speaks -- improves communication and reduces errors and costs, according to a pilot study.img...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Fruit Fly Gene Clone 'Library': P[acman] As New Research Tool
Using a specially adapted tool called P[acman], scientists have established a library of clones that cover most of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) and should speed the pace of genetic research.img...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
What Is The Function Of Lymph Nodes?
If we imagine our immune system to be a police force for our bodies, then previous work has suggested that the Lymph nodes would be the best candidate structures within the body to act as police stations -- the regions in which the immune response is...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
Scientists Reaching Consensus On How Brain Processes Speech
Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language. Both human and non-human primate studies have confirmed that speech, one important facet of language, is processed in the brain...
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General Science | Wednesday May 27
New Model Of Cancer Development: Low Vitamin D Levels May Have Role
In studying the preventive effects of vitamin D, researchers have proposed a new model of cancer development that hinges on a loss of cancer cells' ability to stick together. The model, dubbed DINOMIT, differs substantially from the current model of...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Immune Genes Adapt To Parasites
Thank parasites for making some of our immune proteins into the inflammatory defenders they are today, according to a population genetics study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The study also suggests that you might blame parasites for...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Why The Thumb Of The Right Hand Is On The Left Hand Side
It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. Molecular biologists report that a variety of molecular mechanisms accounts for the interpretation of the...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Menopause Transition May Cause Trouble Learning
The largest study of its kind to date shows that women may not be able to learn as well shortly before menopause compared to other stages in life.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/E3CT97nT3J8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
New Memory Material May Hold Data For One Billion Years
Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you pack, the quicker it spoils. The 10 to 100 gigabits of data...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Higher Risk Of Falls Due To Dizziness In Middle-aged And Older Americans
A full third of American adults, 69 million men and women over age 40, are up to 12 times more likely to have a serious fall because they have some form of inner-ear dysfunction that throws them off balance and makes them dizzy. Millions are unaware of...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Beetles To Be Used To Show Consequences Of Inbreeding
They are cursed the world over for contaminating food supplies and are a huge commercial pest, but the humble flour beetle is about to play a significant role in the management of endangered species. The flour beetle -- or Tribolium castaneum -- will...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Nervous System May Be Culprit In Deadly Muscle Disease
Long considered a "muscle" disorder, Pompe disease may have a previously unknown neural component. In mouse models of the disease, researchers have discovered that signals from the spinal cord are too weak to reach the diaphragm -- the muscle that...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Tool-making Birds: Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention For Clever Rooks
Researchers have found that rooks, a member of the crow family, are capable of using and making tools, modifying them to make them work and using two tools in a sequence.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/0GAAaEX9SKI" height="1"...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Proteomics: Finding The Key Ingredients Of Disease
New findings show how to improve protein analysis to tease out relevant potential disease-causing molecules. The goal of proteomics is to characterize all the proteins that are encoded from human DNA, similar to how all genes were identified as a...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Younger Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer Have Shorter Survival Times
While young men with prostate cancer have a low risk of dying early, those with advanced forms of cancer do not live as long as older men with similar forms of the disease.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/wdFB0LZOTo4" height="1"...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
More To 'Second Life' Than Just Sex
Researchers have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/yaJtnZHvMws" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Integrated Microbial Genomes Expert Review Goes Primetime
After a genome is sequenced and automatically annotated, researchers often manually review the predicted genes and their functions in order to improve accuracy and coverage across the vast genetic code of the particular target organism or community of...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Repeated Fire And Drought: A Menace For Mediterranean Forests
Is fire an enemy of Mediterranean forests or a natural regulating factor of the ecosystem? What is the effect of climate change on the interactions? Researchers have found that it is a question of frequency, itself related to the stock of organic...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Fast And Cheap Forecasting System For Mediterranean Cyclones
Scientists have developed a new methodology to improve forecasting success between 48 and 24 hours before cyclones occur in the Mediterranean Sea. The researchers have used a low-cost means of statistically calculating the sensitivity of the real...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
City Rats Are Loyal To Their Neighborhoods
In the rat race of life, one thing is certain: there??™s no place like home. Now, a study in Molecular Ecology finds the same is true for rats. Although inner city rodents appear to roam freely, most form distinct neighborhoods where they spend the...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
Protective Footwear For Diabetics At Main-street Prices
A new generation of prophylactic footwear has been developed to help the rapidly growing number of diabetics safeguard their feet against serious and debilitating complications which often result in ulcers and amputation.img...
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General Science | Tuesday May 26
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