Treating Gum Disease Helps Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers
Not yet convinced about keeping your teeth healthy, here's another reason. People who suffer from gum disease and also have a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis, reduced their arthritic pain, number of swollen joints and the degree of morning...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Americans Choose Media Messages That Agree With Their Views
A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that Americans prefer to read political articles that agree with the opinions they already hold. Researchers found that people spent 36 percent more time reading articles that agreed with...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Really Virtual Reality
Far from being geeky and exotic, virtual reality could be the key to a new range of innovative products. European researchers and industrialists have come together to build a world-leading community ready to exploit that promise.img...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Waxy Plant Substance Key For Absorption Of Water, Nutrients
While proving a long-held theory that suberin blocks water and nutrient absorption in plants, a scientist learned more about manipulating the substance to better feed plants.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/NtmJQFkjjag"...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Study May Aid Efforts To Prevent Uncontrolled Cell Division In Cancer
Researchers have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contractile ring works to divide the cell may facilitate development of therapies to prevent uncontrolled cell...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Why Coral Reefs Around The World Are Collapsing
An explosion of knowledge has been made in the last few years about the basic biology of corals, researchers say in a new report, helping to explain why coral reefs around the world are collapsing and what it will take for them to survive a gauntlet of...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Unsafe Neighborhoods Disable The Elderly
Elderly people who live below the poverty line and perceive their neighborhoods to be dangerous are more likely to have a mobility disability. Researchers suggest that even perceiving one's neighborhood as unsafe can "get into the body" and,...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Europe To Coordinate Unique Biobanks
The unique material that exists in Europe??™s, and above all the Nordic countries??™ and Sweden??™s, biobanks is a goldmine for research. To put them to their best possible use, this information will now be coordinated, as will the ethical and...
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General Science | Friday May 29
In Rare Disease, A Familiar Protein Disrupts Gene Function
Scientists studying a rare genetic disease discovered that a bundle of proteins with the long-established function of keeping chromosomes together also plays an important role in regulating genes in humans. When cohesin, a protein complex, doesn't work...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Why Some Prostate Cancer Returns
Men with a low oxygen supply to their tumor have a higher chance of the prostate cancer returning, as found by increasing prostate-specific antigen levels following treatment.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/DlnTm47toFo"...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs
Researchers investigating how the brain becomes drug dependent have now implicated a naturally occurring protein, a dose of which allowed them to get rats hooked with no drugs at all. The finding could suggest ways to medically counteract the effects...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Obese Women Should Not Gain Weight During Pregnancy, Study Suggests
A new study challenges the prevailing wisdom that to improve pregnancy outcomes, all women, even those who are obese, should gain weight during pregnancy. The study, first of its kind, found that obese pregnant women who followed a well-balanced diet...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Regular Light Bulbs Made Super-efficient With Ultra-fast Laser
An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers. The process could make a light as bright as a 100-watt bulb consume less electricity than a 60-watt bulb while remaining far cheaper and...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Probing Clouds' Roles In Global Electric Circuit
A semicontinuous current flow has been measured above electrified clouds. Called the Wilson current, this phenomenon has long been considered a critical component of the global electric circuit; however, only a few studies have directly investigated...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Satellites Observe Amazon Basin Water Storage And Runoff
Scientists would like to better understand the physical processes in Amazon hydrological systems. To explore the water storage and dynamics in the Amazon basin, researchers have used data from the two Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Waves In Earth's Radiation Belt Get Mapped
Chorus waves, a type of electromagnetic emission generated by electrons in Earth's radiation belt, play an important role in both accelerating and removing the energetic radiation belt electrons that can disrupt satellite electronics and disturb...
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General Science | Friday May 29
Most Polluted Ecosystems Can Recover, Study Finds
Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to a new analysis.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/HDoxbURHPV8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
For Different Species, Different Functions For Embryonic MicroRNAs
When evolution has lucked into efficient solutions for life's most fundamental problems, it adopts them as invaluable family heirlooms, passing them down as one species evolves into another. So it was reasonable to expect that a key regulator of...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
New Therapy Enlists Immune System To Boost Cure Rate In Childhood Cancer
Scientist have announced encouraging results for an experimental therapy using elements of the body's immune system to improve cure rates for children with neuroblastoma, a challenging cancer of the nervous system. Children who received monoclonal...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Male Or Female? Coloring Provides Gender Cues
Our brain is wired to identify gender based on facial cues and coloring, according to a new study. Psychologists found the luminescence of the eyebrow and mouth region is vital in rapid gender discrimination.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Warning On Athletes' Use Of Prescription Drugs
Athletes could be putting their lives at risk by doping themselves with powerful prescription drugs, an academic has warned. Researchers cautioned sportsmen and women against trying to improve their performance by taking drugs known as nitrites without...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Connected World Gives Viruses The Edge
A new article explores the importance of dispersal to the evolution of parasites and suggests that as human activity makes the world more connected, natural selection will favor more virulent and dangerous parasites.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Zebrafish Provide Model For Cancerous Melanoma In Humans
Scientists haved used the zebrafish to gain insight into the influence of known cancer genes on the development and progression of melanoma, an aggressive form of human skin cancer with limited treatment options.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Satellite Used To Unearth Innovation In Crop Forecasting
NASA researchers are using satellite data to deliver a kind of space-based humanitarian assistance. They are cultivating the most accurate estimates of soil moisture -- the main determinant of crop yield changes -- and improving global forecasts of how...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Carbohydrate Restriction May Slow Prostate Tumor Growth
Restricting carbohydrates, regardless of weight loss, appears to slow the growth of prostate tumors, according to a new animal study.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/akhCNAi1m5o" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Portable Device Can Detect Viruses In Minutes
Imagine being able to detect in just a few minutes whether someone is infected with a virus. This has now become a reality, thanks to a new ultra-sensitive detector. The first prototype has just been completed and researchers expect to be able to...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Ancient Mudstones Could Provide Alternative Source Of Energy
New research in England reveals that an alternative to oil could be found in ancient sea deposits dating 300 million years ago.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Q8RGdn2nj6Q" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
How Viral Infection Can Protect From Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is caused by immune system??“mediated destruction of insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas. It is known that infection with a virus can induce an immune response that damages beta-cells or a response that protects an individual...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Greening Arctic Not Likely To Offset Permafrost Carbon Release
As the frozen soil in the Arctic thaws, bacteria will break down organic matter, releasing long-stored carbon into the warming atmosphere.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/xu3tRnLbBh8" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
New Cellular Targets For HIV Drug Development
Focusing HIV drug development on immune cells called macrophages could help combat the disease, according to new research.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/qYrq3cdFKGM" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Antibiotic Multi-resistance: Why Bacteria Are So Effective
Scientists have deciphered for the first time the molecular mechanism that enables bacteria to acquire multi-resistance to antibiotics, and that even allows them to adapt this resistance to their environment. This discovery highlights the difficulties...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Dramatic Increase In Metastatic Colon Cancer Survival
Novel chemotherapy and biological agents for metastatic colorectal cancer, combined with surgical advances in liver resection, have resulted in a dramatic increase in survival for patients with advanced disease, according to researchers.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Diabetes Drug Shows Promise Against Multiple Sclerosis
A drug currently FDA-approved for use in diabetes shows some protective effects in the brains of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, researchers report.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/2kgeAspZUeQ" height="1"...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
XMM-Newton Takes Astronomers To A Black Hole's Edge
Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/tqZmD-riIqE"...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Assisted Reproduction Increasing: Almost 250,000 Babies Born In One Year
Assisted reproductive technology is responsible for an estimated 219,000 to 246,000 babies born each year worldwide according to an international study. The study also finds that the number of ART procedures is growing steadily: in just two years (from...
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Well Water Can Pose Health Risks To Young Children
Private well water should be tested yearly, and in some cases more often, according to new guidance offered by the American Academy of Pediatrics.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/r7GHBd09L8E" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 28
Statins May Have A Negative Impact In Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Statins, a commonly prescribed class of drugs used by millions worldwide to effectively lower blood cholesterol levels, may actually have a negative impact in multiple sclerosis patients treated with high daily dosages.img...
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