Many People Misjudge Their Degree Of Cancer Risk
Working with a population of individuals at risk for gastrointestinal cancers, researchers have learned that many people misjudge their actual degree of cancer risk and, therefore, their true need for prevention support.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Peruvian Stalagmites Hold Clues To Climate Change
How will the Netherlands, dominated by water, be affected by future climate change? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen hopes to answer that question by analyzing stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru as a way to reconstruct...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Heart Condition? Chewable Aspirin Absorbs Most Readily
For many years, it has been known that aspirin is beneficial to patients suffering heart attacks and near-heart attacks. But which of the many different types of aspirin is likely to help the most?img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Sweet Deception: New Test Distinguishes Impure Honey From The Real Thing
Here's some sweet news for honey lovers: Researchers have developed of a simple test for distinguishing 100 percent natural honeys from adulterated or impure versions that they say are increasingly being foisted off on consumers.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
High Blood Pressure Could Be Caused By A Common Virus, Study Suggests
A new study suggests for the first time that cytomegalovirus, a common viral infection affecting between 60 and 99 percent of adults worldwide, is a cause of high blood pressure, a leading risk factor for heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Sex Life Of Plants Reveals Conflicts Between The Sexes
The pollen grains of male plants live in great competition. A grain of pollen that succeeds in manipulating the flower's pistil can emerge victorious from the struggle, according to new research from Sweden.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Intelligence And Physical Attractiveness Both Impact Income
People looking for a good job at a good salary could find their intelligence may not be the only trait that puts them at the top of the pay scale, according to researchers. A new study finds attractiveness, along with confidence, may help job-seekers...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
New Species Of Cholesterol-busting Bug With A Taste For Waste Discovered
A novel species of bacteria with cholesterol-busting properties has been discovered by scientists. They isolated the new bug, called Gordonia cholesterolivorans, from sewage sludge.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/rFxCs-c3tV0"...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
LXR Proteins: New Target In The War On Tuberculosis?
New research has identified a role for LXR proteins in the mouse immune response to airway infection with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. As treatment of normal mice with molecules that activate LXRs provided substantial protection from both a...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Ginger Quells Cancer Patients' Nausea From Chemotherapy
People with cancer can reduce post-chemotherapy nausea by 40 percent by using ginger supplements, along with standard anti-vomiting drugs, before undergoing treatment, according to scientists.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
New Imaging Technique Reveals Structural Changes In Tourette's
Magnetization transfer imaging has been used to visualize previously unknown alterations in the cerebral architecture of patients with Tourette's syndrome. The researchers also found a correlation between the extent of some of the structural changes...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Progress Toward Artificial Tissue?
Researchers have developed a novel, highly porous, sponge-like material whose mechanical properties closely resemble those of biological soft tissues.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/kT5y_n-4ya4" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Individual Stress Linked To Adolescent Obesity
Stress may indeed be a direct contributor to childhood obesity. That's according to a new study finding that increased levels of stress in adolescents are associated with a greater likelihood of them being overweight or obese.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Rational Design Of Vaccines: A Long But Essential Journey
The holy grail of the defense mechanism against infectious diseases and tumors has not yet been discovered. In the search for a ???master switch??™ in the immune apparatus of humans and animals, many strategies still need to be explored before the...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Chronic Infection Now Clearly Tied To Immune-system Protein
A new study finds the cross-talk between 'killer T-cells' and 'helper T-cells' can only happen in the presence of interleukin-21, a powerful immune-system protein. Researchers say if interleukin-21 is missing, the immune system's anti-viral efforts...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Expression Of Infrared Fluorescence Engineered In Mammals
Researchers have shown that bacterial proteins called phytochromes can be engineered into infrared-fluorescent proteins. Because the wavelength of IFPs is able to penetrate tissue, these proteins are suitable for whole-body imaging in small animals.img...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Drug That Targets Vasculature Growth Attacks Aggressive Thyroid Cancer
A medication that helps stop the growth of new blood vessels has produced dramatic benefits for some patients with aggressive thyroid cancer, new research indicates.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/HwMEJt17fu0" height="1"...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
New Fuel Cell Catalyst Uses Two Metals: Up To Five Times More Effective
Material scientists have developed a technique for a bimetallic fuel cell catalyst that is efficient, robust and two to five times more effective than commercial catalysts. The novel technique eventually will enable a cost effective fuel cell...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Study Tests The Effect Of Ending Ambulance Diversion For Overcrowding
When a hospital's emergency department is overcrowded with seriously sick and injured patients, it may "go on diversion," re-routing ambulances to other emergency departments. But the benefits of "diversion" are largely unproven. Often those emergency...
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General Science | Saturday May 16
Youths Use Alcoholic Drink Labels To Choose Strongest Drink At Lowest Cost
Contrary to the industry??™s position that visible drink labels will promote responsible drinking, young people are, instead, using these visible standard drink labels to increase or even maximize the amount of alcohol they consume at the lowest cost...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Soil Nitrogen Test Measures Microbial Nitrogen
The Illinois Soil Nitrogen Test was recently studied to clarify the chemical nature of what the test measures and its relationship to microbial growth in soils, determining that the test does not estimate total soil nitrogen and is selective for...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Surgery Improves Survival For Prostate Cancer Patients Younger Than 50
For men younger than 50 with prostate cancer, undergoing a radical prostatectomy can greatly increase their chances for long-term survival, according to a new study. Results from the study done on the National SEER database show that the surgical...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Conflict Between Doctors, Midwives Over Homebirth
Researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust -- and sometimes outright antagonism -- among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their home-birth clients to the hospital because of complications.img...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Warming Climate Is Affecting Cascades Snowpack In Pacific Northwest
There has been recent disagreement about the snowpack decline in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, but new research leaves little doubt that a warmer climate has a significant effect on the snowpack, even if other factors keep...
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General Science | Friday May 15
How Oil Gets Stuck Underground In Inaccessible Places
It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities in the surrounding rock or...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Even In Our Genome, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Our genome is a patchwork of neighborhoods that couldn't be more different: Some areas are hustling and bustling with gene activity, while others are sparsely populated and in perpetual lock-down. Breaking down just a few of the molecular fences that...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Most Extensive Genetic Resource For Reef-building Coral Created
A nearly complete collection of genes for a species of reef-building coral has been assembled. The scientists will use the genetic data to understand natural variations in corals from around the world and how they respond, at the genetic level, to...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Graphene Yields Secrets To Its Extraordinary Properties
Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers have directly measured the unusual energy spectrum of graphene, a technologically promising, two-dimensional form of carbon that has tantalized and puzzled scientists since its discovery in...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Heavy Metal Packaging
Researchers in Argentina have developed a new approach to testing food packaging for trace amounts of the toxic heavy metal cadmium.
Cadmium is one of several additives used extensively in the manufacture of plastics. Regulations limit the...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Small RNAs Yield Great Amounts Of Data From Ocean Microbe Samples
An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs -- snippets of RNA that act as switches to regulate gene...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Smoking Interferes With Recovery From Alcohol-related Brain Damage
Excessive drinking can damage the brain, especially the frontal and parietal cortices. Some of this damage is reversible with abstinence from alcohol. New findings show that chronic cigarette smoking is associated with poor recovery of brain blood flow...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring
Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but only offer a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time. Monitoring a tumor for weeks or months after the biopsy,...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Embryo's Heartbeat Drives Blood Stem Cell Formation
Biologists have long wondered why the embryonic heart begins beating so early, before the tissues actually need to be infused with blood. Two new articles show that the mechanical stresses of a beating heart and blood flow are required for the blood...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Competition May Have Led To New Dinosaur Species In Northwestern Alberta
The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in Northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species there. Paleontologists found a nesting site and the remains of baby, plant-eating dinosaurs...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Cocaine-linked Genes Enhance Behavioral Effects Of Addiction
New research sheds light on how cocaine regulates gene expression in a crucial reward region of the brain to elicit long-lasting changes in behavior. The study provides exciting insight into the molecular pathways regulated by cocaine and may lead to...
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General Science | Friday May 15
New Insight Into Decline Of Arctic Sea Ice Cover
The mechanical behavior of the Arctic sea ice cover appears to favor its rapid decline. Scientists have analyzed the trajectories of drifting buoys anchored in the ice and found that the mean drift rate and deformation rate of Arctic sea ice has...
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General Science | Friday May 15
New 'Smart' Polymer Reduces Radioactive Waste At Nuclear Power Plants
Scientists have developed a new polymer that reduces the amount of radioactive waste produced during routine operation of nuclear reactors.? img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/rar9E2BRUAo" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Friday May 15
Human Nose Too Cold For Bird Flu, Says New Study
Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person's nose is too low, according to new research. The authors of the study say this may be one of the reasons why bird flu viruses do not cause pandemics in humans...
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