Bleeding Disorders Going Undiagnosed; New Guidelines To Help
Nearly one percent of the population suffers from bleeding disorders, yet many women don't know they have one because doctors aren't looking for the condition, according to researchers.img...
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General Science | Monday Jun 8
Binge Drinking Increases Risk Of Lung Cancer In Smokers
The risk of lung cancer increases for those smokers who have a tendency to binge drinking.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/QI8_jboqi-I" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Monday Jun 8
Is Rural Land Use Too Important To Be Left To Farmers?
As demands on rural land increase and we are all having to deal with the effects of climate change, we may need to take a fresh look at our priorities, according to leading academics meeting in the UK. Research from the Relu Program will be important...
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General Science | Monday Jun 8
Network Creates Virtual Super-telescope
Vast quantities of data are transferred in real time from telescopes around the world to a supercomputer in the Netherlands, where researchers combine the information to create high-resolution images of distant objects in space.img...
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General Science | Monday Jun 8
Phantom Traffic Jams Act Like Gas Explosions
Mechanical engineers have revealed a new way to study phantom traffic jams. " In the research team's eyes, traffic flow is a gas and the start of a traffic jam is an explosion and that force ripples outwards engulfing everything in its path." one of...
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General Science | Monday Jun 8
Common Chemotherapy Drug Can Trigger Fatal Allergic Reactions
A chemotherapy drug that is supposed to help save cancer patients' lives, instead resulted in life-threatening and sometimes fatal allergic reactions. A new study identified 287 hypersensitivity reactions and 109 deaths in patients who received...
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General Science | Monday Jun 8
Gay Marriage Bans Linked To Rise In HIV Rate
Bans on same-sex marriage can be tied to a rise in the rate of HIV infection, a new study has found.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/-GhHsL2eGQo" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Surprising Green Energy Investment Trends Found Worldwide
Some $155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energy companies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro, a new report says. Of this $13.5 billion of new private investment went into companies developing and scaling-up new technologies...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Key Regulator Of Fat Cell Development Discovered
Scientists have discovered how two related proteins and their roles in a key molecular pathway are critical to creating obesity-causing fat cells.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/BmFtgwTYoSo" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
New Way To Enhance Stem Cells To Stimulate Muscle Regeneration
Scientists have discovered a powerful new way to stimulate muscle regeneration, paving the way for new treatments for debilitating conditions such as muscular dystrophy. The research shows for the first time that a protein called Wnt7a increases the...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
New Technique Developed To Evaluate Basketball Players
A team of Spanish and American researchers has developed a method to evaluate basketball players that will, they say, better meet the requirements of the sport??™s trainers and experts. The technique uses mathematical models designed to measure...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Nature Parks Can Save Species As Climate Changes
Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/ZqQhIyj_PNA"...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
New Genetic Immune Disorder In Children Discovered
Your immune system plays an important function in your health -- it protects you against viruses, bacteria, and other toxins that can cause disease. In autoinflammatory diseases, however, the immune system goes awry, causing unprovoked and dangerous...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Break From Hormone Therapy Doesn't Improve Mammograms
It's the downside of not needing to wear a bra: Having "dense" breasts is the biggest risk factor for breast cancer, aside from age. Postmenopausal hormone therapy makes breasts denser -- and harder to "read" on mammograms. So some women take a short...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Breast Cancer Gene Can Be Blocked By Blood Pressure Drug
Researchers have identified a gene that is overexpressed in up to 20 percent of breast cancers and that could be blocked in the lab by a currently available blood pressure drug, according to a new study.img...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Gene For Deadly Inherited Lung Disease Identified
A rare, deadly developmental disorder of the lungs called alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) that usually kills the infants born with it within the first month of life results from deletions or mutations in the...
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Routine Diabetes Screenings Could Cut Health-care Costs
Screening adults for diabetes could result in significant cost-savings for health-care systems compared to the costs of not screening individuals at all.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/nIHVuPZz7Do" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Sunday Jun 7
Students Who Get Stuck Look For Computer Malfunctions
When students working with educational software get stymied, they often try to find fault with the computer or the software, rather than look to their own mistakes, according to new research.img...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Controlling Heat In Large Data Centers With Improved Techniques
Approximately a third of the electricity consumed by large data centers doesn't power the computer servers that conduct online transactions, serve web pages or store information. Instead, that electricity must be used for cooling the servers, a demand...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Bats Recognize The Individual Voices Of Other Bats
Bats use echolocation for more than just spatial knowledge. Bats can use the characteristics of other bats' voices to recognize each other, according to a new study.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/N5-z6UQay5M" height="1"...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
If At First You Don't Succeed, Let The Search Engine Try
No matter how good a search engine is, it is sometimes necessary to change the search terms to get the information you need. But what if you did not have to change the search terms yourself? What if the search engine could do that for you?img...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
One In Four Nursing Home Residents Carry MRSA, UK Study Suggests
MRSA is a major problem in nursing homes with one in four residents carrying the bacteria, a new study has found.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/ZEl2i4VyO0k" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Newly Discovered Reactions From An Old Drug May Lead To New Antibiotics
A mineral found at health food stores could be the key to developing a new line of antibiotics for bacteria that commonly cause diarrhea, tooth decay and, in some severe cases, death. Selenium is found in a number of proteins. New research shows that...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
'Shock And Kill' Research Gives New Hope For HIV-1 Eradication
Latent HIV genes can be "smoked out" of human cells. This so-called "shock and kill" technique might represent a new milestone along the way to the discovery of a cure for HIV/AIDS.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/HkwpYbBhueA"...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Scientists Use Bed Bugs' Own Chemistry Against Them
Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs. The researchers found that stirring up the bed bugs by spraying their environment...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
17 Million US Children Live More Than An Hour Away From Trauma Care
More than 17 million US children live more than an hour away by ground or air transportation from a life-saving pediatric trauma center, according to a new study by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Molecules Which Flip Into Their Own Mirror Image
Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust. If scientists understood these processes...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Molecular Powerbrokers Involved In Cancer's Spread
Scientists have known for some time that biological molecules interact with one another in a similarly complex pattern. Now researchers have determined that hamstringing these molecular powerbrokers is a good way to derail processes such as cancer...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
People Who Wear Rose-colored Glasses See More, Study Shows
A new study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-colored glasses is more biological reality than metaphor.img...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
'Junk' DNA Proves To Be Highly Valuable
What was once thought of as DNA with zero value in plants--dubbed "junk" DNA--may turn out to be key in helping scientists improve the control of gene expression in transgenic crops.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/MNCqGt-I-wA"...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Unmanned Aircraft Helping Scientists Learn About Alaskan Ice Seals
Scientists have launched an unmanned aircraft to mount the vehicle's first search for ice seals at the southern edge of the Bering Sea pack ice during the Arctic spring, in an effort to learn more about these remotely located species.img...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Misreading Of Histone Code Linked To Human Cancer
The development of blood from stem cell to fully formed blood cell follows a genetically determined program. When it works properly, blood formation stops when it reaches maturity. But when it doesn't, genetic mutations can prevent the stop signal and...
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
Beehive Fence Deters Elephant Raiders
A fence made out of beehives wired together has been shown to significantly reduce crop raids by elephants, Oxford University scientists report.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/Xex9HJGTZ88" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Saturday Jun 6
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