Archive: 02/15/2009
Common gene variants increase risk of hypertension, may lead to new therapies
A new study has identified the first common gene variants associated with an increased incidence of hypertension - a significant risk factor for heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. The report receiving ...
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Deaf children use hands to invent own way of communicating
Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Study finds recession associated with increases in minority victims of crime
The victimization of both female and male blacks and Latinos increases during or after periods of economic recession, according to a study by researchers Karen Heimer of the University of Iowa and Janet Lauritsen of the University ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method
(PhysOrg.com) -- President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden
A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...
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Genetic 'hotspot' for breast cancer risk
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have identified a new genetic hotspot for breast cancer.
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Chemists create two-armed nanorobotic device to maneuver world's tiniest particles
Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault
Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2009 |
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X-rays used to reveal secrets of famous fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone.
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Researchers shed new light on connection between brain and loneliness
Social isolation affects how people behave as well as how their brains operate, a study at the University of Chicago shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Cosmologist Paul Davies explores notion of 'alien' life on Earth
Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Biologist discusses sacred nature of sustainability
The hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at ...
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Study finds behavioral link between insomnia and tension-type headaches
A study in the Feb. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the use of sleep or napping to relieve chronic pain caused by tension-type headaches could have the unwanted effect of decreasing the homeos ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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