Archive: 11/04/2008
Pregnancy disorder signals need to screen for heart disease
High blood pressure experienced during pregnancy could be a woman's earliest warning that she is at risk of developing heart disease – the number one killer of Canadian women – says Queen's University professor of Obstetrics ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Computer model improves ultrasound image
Doctors use diagnostic sonography or ultrasound to visualise organs and other internal structures of the human body. Dutch researcher Koos Huijssen has developed a computer model that can predict the sound transmission of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Engineers design self-stabilizing electric bicycle
(PhysOrg.com) -- As every five-year-old knows, balancing on a bicycle is not as easy as it looks. But, as engineers know, getting a bicycle to balance by itself – without a human riding it – is even more difficult.
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Consumer not ready for tailor-made nutrition
In the near future it will be possible to customise the food we eat to individual needs, based on the genetic profile of the individual. Dutch researcher Amber Ronteltap suggests that the consumer market is not yet ready ...
Nov 04, 2008 |
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NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters. Information received over the weekend indicates Phoenix is running out of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Community support wins 'ghost'
Against a backdrop of stories about Britain's "broken society" there are examples of community action bringing positive changes. One recent example of such community spirit is in London where 'London Citizens' recently fought ...
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Research shows raised incidence of psychoses among migrant groups
Researchers examining the occurrence of psychoses among migrant groups have shown a raised incidence for all black and ethnic minority subgroups compared with white British counterparts, and reveal that the risk of psychoses ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Hydrogen tank lighter than battery
Dutch-sponsored researcher Robin Gremaud has shown that an alloy of the metals magnesium, titanium and nickel is excellent at absorbing hydrogen. This light alloy brings us a step closer to the everyday use of hydrogen as ...
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Coral reefs found growing in cold, deep ocean
Imagine descending in a submarine to the ice-cold, ink-black depths of the ocean, 800 metres under the surface of the Atlantic. Here the tops of the hills are covered in large coral reefs. NIOZ-researcher Furu Mienis studied ...
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Biologists identify genes that prevent changes in physical traits due to environmental changes
New York University biologists have identified genes that prevent physical traits from being affected by environmental changes. The research, which studied the genetic makeup of baker's yeast, appears in the latest issue ...
Biology /
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Lung airway cells activate vitamin D and increase immune response
Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study finds ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Snakebite is a neglected threat to global public health
Snakebites cause considerable death and injury worldwide and pose an important yet neglected threat to public health, says new research published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The study used the most comprehensive method ...
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Spatial and temporal clustering of dengue virus transmission in Thai villages
In a new study reported in PLoS Medicine, Mammen P. Mammen Jr. of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in Bangkok and colleagues investigated the spread of dengue virus infection in rural Thai v ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 04, 2008 |
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New spaceship force field makes Mars trip possible
According to the international space agencies, "Space Weather" is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and cosmic rays pose a deadly threat to astronauts in space.
Nov 04, 2008 |
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