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for the Week of November 22 to November 29, 2009
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Posted 2009-11-29:
- 'Glow-in-the-dark' red blood cells made from human stem cells
- Forming new brain cells: Key regulatory peptide discovered
- Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all
- Measuring and modeling blood flow in malaria
- New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear
- Motivational 'women-only' cardiac rehab improves symptoms of depression
Posted 2009-11-29:
- Biological basis of 'bacterial immune system' discovered
- New device implanted by surgeons help paralyzed patients breathe easier
- Fruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex
- Bell's palsy: Study calls for rethink of cause and treatment
- Nuclear waste reduction: Polymers designed to mop up radioactive isotopes
- Dispensing prescription drugs in 3-month supplies reduces drug costs by a third
- RNA network seen in live bacterial cells for first time
- Researchers fine-tune diffuse optical tomography for breast cancer screening
- 24-carat gold 'snowflakes' improve graphene's electrical properties
- Biologics for rheumatoid arthritis work, but which is best?
- Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species
- Talking to ourselves: How consumers navigate choices and inner conflict
- Small hairy balls hide foul-tasting healthful enzymes
- New treatment more than doubles survival for high risk childhood leukemia
- Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission
- Common herbicides and fibrates block nutrient-sensing receptor found in gut and pancreas
- Control of mosquito vectors of malaria may be enhanced by a new method of biocontrol
- Obese patients' reaction to diet can be predicted, study finds
Posted 2009-11-28:
- With first neutrino events, physicists closer to answering why only matter in universe
- Nano-scale drug delivery developed for chemotherapy
- Study pits man versus machine in piecing together 425-million-year-old jigsaw
- Drug therapy more cost-effective than angioplasty for diabetic patients with heart disease, study suggests
- Plasma-in-a-bag for sterilizing devices
- Comforted by carpet: How do floors and distance affect purchases?
- Mass extinction: Why did half of N. America's large mammals disappear 40,000 to 10,000 years ago?
- Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant may help lung, heart disorders
- How plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease
- Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034
- Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes
- Building real security with virtual worlds
- Wide heads give hammerhead sharks exceptional stereo view
- Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets
- 3-D software gives doctors, students a view inside the body
- Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug
- New computer virus disguised as social security administration download
- School closure could reduce swine flu transmission by 21 percent, European study finds
- First-ever blueprint of 'minimal cell' is more complex than expected
- New cause for Alzheimer's disease?
- Overcoming barriers for organic electronics
- MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients, new study finds; Seven-fold increase in potentially lethal superbug
- Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later
- Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
- Stem cells heal lungs of newborn animals: May lead to new treatments for lungs of premature babies
- New device enables early detection of cancerous skin tumors
- Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
- New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery
- RFID Chips: Intelligence inside metal components
- Hospital report cards do not appear to result in significant improvements
- Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds
- Molecule discovered that makes obese people develop diabetes
- Time of day matters to thirsty trees
- Marker of oxidative stress predicts heart disease outcomes
- Predicting the effectiveness of metal catalysts
- Search engines are source of learning
- Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
- Discovery leads to effective treatment of painful skin condition
- New nano color sorters from molecular foundry
- Need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients reduced
- Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators
- Some patients diagnosed with HIV experience improved outlook on life
Posted 2009-11-27:
- First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes
- Control of blood clotting by platelets described; provides medical promise
- Fish food fight: Fish don't eat trees after all, says new study
- Invention will help speed development of drug treatments for heart failure
- Aquatic bacteria: Possible markers for monitoring Arctic climate change
- Competitive, trade-friendly nations weather volatile crop yields best
- Mammalian system for controlling bone remodelling also regulates fever
- Scientists identify two molecules that affect brain plasticity in mice
- Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks
- Moderate-to-heavy exercise may reduce risk of stroke for men
- New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants
- When good companies do bad things
- Cassini captures ghostly dance of Saturn's northern lights
- Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice
- California's ancient kelp forest
- First effective medical therapy for rare stomach disorder
- Look Ma, no mercury in fillings!
- Emulating Western lifestyles: Consumption and carbon footprints in less industrialized countries
- Ladybugs taken hostage by wasps
- Brain's fear center is equipped with built-in suffocation sensor
- Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal
- Tobacco smoke exposure before heart transplantation may increase the risk of transplant failure
- Virtual streams created to help restore real ones
- Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders
- Bioengineers succeed in producing plastics without the use of fossil fuels
- Startled flies may provide insight into ADHD
- Scientists watch as peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'
- Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide
- Unique micronail chip makes electronics and bio cells communicate
- 'Too fat to be a princess?' Young girls worry about body image, study shows
- NASA satellites detect unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica
- Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment closer to reality
- Cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed
- Proteins in lung cancer cells that may provide potential drug targets identified
- Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs
- Parent training key to improved treatment of behavior problems in children with autism
- When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat
- Alzheimer's research sheds light on potential treatments for urinary tract infections
- New imagining technique could lead to better antibiotics and cancer drugs
- Chronic pain found to increase risk of falls in older adults
- Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones
- Brains benefit from multilingualism
- Evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish unraveled
- New genetic cause of cardiac failure discovered
- Discovery allows scientists for the first time to annotate genomes experimentally
- Early protein processes crucial to formation and layering of myelin membrane
- Frost-covered Phoenix lander seen in winter images from Mars
- You say po-TAY-to, and I say po-TAH-to! Language evolves through our own use of it
Posted 2009-11-26:
- 'Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from too much light
- Hormone ghrelin can boost resistance to Parkinson's disease
- New computer cluster gets its grunt from games
- 'Scarless' thyroid surgery uses 3-D, high-def robotic equipment
- Carbon dioxide emissions continue significant climb
- Most top medical journals have publicly available conflict of interest policies, but substantial variation exists in definitions
- Cosmic 'dig' reveals vestiges of the Milky Way's building blocks
- Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors
- High-tech origami: Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials
- Crosstalk between critical cell-signaling pathways holds clues to tumor invasion and metastasis
- Magic box for mission impossible
- Early relationships influence teen pain and depression
- Opposites attract: Monkeys choose mating partners with different genes
- Soy component may be key to fighting colon cancer
- Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action
- Eye floaters and flashes of light linked to retinal tear, detachment
- Exposures to metals and diesel emissions in air linked to respiratory symptoms in children
- America's increasing food waste is laying waste to the environment
- First black holes may have incubated in giant, starlike cocoons
- How coughing is triggered by environmental irritants
- Meiosis: Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane
- Sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics
- Origin of life: Generating RNA molecules in water
- Yoga boosts heart health, new research finds
- Hydrogen-economy on the way? New hydrogen-storage method discovered
- Fat around the middle increases the risk of dementia
- Butterfly proboscis to sip cells
- Flu and children: RSV causes far more hospitalizations than seasonal flu
- 'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed
- Organizational psychologists use Rock Band to study how people achieve flow while at work
- Violent world of raptors explored
- Protein from pregnancy hormone may prevent breast cancer
- Cross-country runabouts: immune cells on the move
- Researchers track down protein responsible for chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps
- Robotic clam digs in mudflats
- Children still exposed to secondhand smoke in spite of smoking ban, Welsh study finds
- Alzheimer's: Destructive amyloid-beta protein may also be essential for normal brain function
- Ultrasound enhances noninvasive Down syndrome tests
- First Bose-Einstein Condensation Of Strontium
- Insights Into The Molecular Basis Of Tumor Cell Behavior
- Saving the single cysteine: New antioxidant system found
- National Anti-gun Violence Program Largely Successful
- Warmer means windier on Lake Superior, world's biggest freshwater lake
- Flaxseed oil may reduce osteoporosis risk
- Researchers begin to decipher metabolism of sexual assault drug
- Antifibrotic effects of green tea
- Systems biology approach provides insulin resistance insights
- Using Science To Save Lives Of Mothers And Children In Africa
Posted 2009-11-25:
- Ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
- Link between influenza virus and fever: Scientists solve riddle of new mechanism in immune system
- Navy Researchers Apply Science To Fire Fighting
- Racial disparity in colon cancer survival not easily explained, researchers say
- Smartphone app illuminates power consumption
- Medical 'pay for performance' programs help improve care, but not always, study finds
- To the bat cave: Researchers reconstruct evolution of bat migration with aid of mathematical model
- Gene implicated in stress-induced high blood pressure
- Cassini's big sky: View from the center of our solar system
- Diabetics show alarming increase in morbid obesity
- Using new technique, scientists find eleven times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
- Genome-wide association studies in developing countries raise important new ethical issues
- Dramatic decline found in Siberian tigers
- Toward explaining why hepatitis B hits men harder than women
- Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome
- Multiple health concerns surface as winter, vitamin D deficiences arrive
- How might navy sonar affect hearing of whales and other marine animals?
- High unexpressed anger in multiple sclerosis patients linked to nervous system damage, not disease severity
- Killer fungus threatening amphibians
- Why circumcision reduces HIV risk
- Alternative animal feed part of global fisheries crisis fix
- Alarming trend: Antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US
- Polymer with honeycomb structure: Scientists synthesize graphene-like material
- Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression, rat study finds
- Spitzer Telescope observes baby brown dwarf
- Factors from common human bacteria may trigger multiple sclerosis
- Is global warming unstoppable?
- Ethnic Background May Be Associated With Diabetes Risk
- Rescuing male turkey chicks
- Daycare may double TV time for young children, study finds
- Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable
- Medical imaging technique identifies very common condition in women that often goes undiagnosed
- Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots
- Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises Can Help Manage Urinary Incontinence In Older Women
- Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb
- Direct-to-consumer ads associated with higher Medicaid costs
- Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago
- Vioxx trial data shows early cardiovascular risk
- Cassini sends back images of Saturn's moon Enceladus as winter nears
- Mosquito Screens Found To Be Cheap And Effective In Malaria Prevention
- Switchgrass produces biomass efficiently
- Sedatives, mood-altering drugs related to falls among elderly: UBC study
- New chameleon species discovered in East Africa
- Beta-blockers can have helpful, or harmful, effect on heart
- Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol
- Insecticide-treated Bed Nets Reduce Infant Deaths In Democratic Republic Of Congo, Study Finds
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
- Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa
Posted 2009-11-24:
- Common plastics chemicals -- phthalates -- linked to ADHD symptoms
- Gene mismatch influences success of bone marrow transplants
- International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic
- Climate variability and dengue incidence
- New method to measure snow, vegetation moisture with GPS may benefit farmers, meteorologists
- Alcohol in pregnancy linked to child behavior problems
- Spiral galaxies: Exploring the baffling boxy bulge
- New research shows versatility of amniotic fluid stem cells
- Two circulating beams bring first collisions in Large Hadron Collider
- Paradoxical Protein Might Prevent Cancer
- Predicting the fate of underground carbon
- Burned out, depressed surgeons more likely to commit more major medical errors
- New wound dressing, full of antibiotics, dissolves when wound has healed
- Multiple sclerosis is more aggressive in children but slower to cause disability than in adults
- Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
- Imaging techniques may help predict response to head and neck cancer treatment
- Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen
- Skin color gives clues to health
- Extensive valley network on Mars adds to evidence for ancient Martian ocean
- Exposure to lead, tobacco smoke raises risk of ADHD
- Compound that boosts anti-inflammatory fat levels created
- Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
- How does embryo's pancreas 'know' which cells are to produce insulin?
- Climate modeling may have missed something: Aquatic creatures mix ocean water by swimming
- How the brain filters out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information
- Deep-sea world beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species on edge of black abyss
- Adult cell self-renewal without stem cells?
- Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat
- Bladder cancer risks increase over time for smokers
- Generating electricity from air flow
- Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults
- Some germs are good for you: Surface bacteria maintain skin's healthy balance
- New cancer target for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Hard training may reduce fertility in women
- Role of gene in tumor development, growth and progression identified
- The search: Computers dig deeper for meaning
- Funeral industry workers exposed to formaldehyde face higher risk of leukemia
- Physicists move one step closer to quantum computing
- New understanding about mechanism for cell death after stroke leads to possible therapy
- DNA 'barcode' for tropical trees
- Genetic analysis helps dissect molecular basis of cardiovascular disease
- Adding one single gene to yeast dramatically improves bioethanol production from agricultural waste
- Autism: Parent training complements medication for treating behavioral problems in children with PDD
- Scientists find molecular trigger that helps prevent aging and disease
- New research into the mechanisms of gene regulation
- Low carbon straw house passes fire safety test
- Use of rib cartilage grafts in rhinoplasty results in patient satisfaction, few complications
- Winemaking enhanced by DNA technology
- Brief intervention works for drivers who persist in driving while intoxicated
Posted 2009-11-23:
- Termites create sustainable monoculture fungus farming
- Sugar-coated polymer is new weapon against allergies and asthma
- Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'
- Researchers find new piece of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) puzzle
- Sweet as can be: How E. coli gets ahead
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