Archive: 12/15/2008
Vendee Globe route seen from above
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind and wave data from ESA's Envisat satellite radar are being used to observe meteorological conditions in the track of the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world yacht race.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Computer system fails the children it was designed to protect
Just days after the head of Ofsted, Christine Gilbert, promised an overhaul of child protection inspection services in the wake of the death of Baby P, a new study claims that the IT-based procedures used by staff working ...
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Important new insights into the lives of young adult carers
As Christmas approaches thousands of young adult carers will once again face the emotional turmoil of juggling their commitments at home with going out and sharing in the festive celebrations.
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Tiny ecosystem may shed light on climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain.
Biology /
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Radical Scavengers in Red Smear Cheeses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carotenoids not only give carrots and red smear cheeses, such as Munster, Limburger, and Romadur, their characteristic red color, but they also protect organisms from oxidative stress. A research team headed ...
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Researchers find gene function 'lost' in melanoma and glioblastoma
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found a gene they say is inactivated in two aggressive cancers – malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, and glioblastoma multiforme, a lethal brain tumor. They ...
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing people'
Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to spread from a primary site, to form tumours at distant sites. It is a complex process in which cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role. Essential to our understanding ...
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Later school start times may improve sleep in adolescents and decrease risk of auto accidents
A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that after a one-hour delay of school start times, teens increased their average nightly hours of sleep and decreased their "catch-up sleep" on the ...
Dec 15, 2008 |
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New psychotherapy has potential to treat majority of cases of eating disorders
Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Data mining of inpatient records reveals the disease pattern of obstructive sleep apnea
A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to show the full clinical picture of comorbid conditions associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), quantify their frequency of occurr ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Step out for PAD
You probably know that poor diet and lack of exercise can lead to dangerous deposits of fatty plaques in arteries. But it is not just the heart that is affected – blood flow can be blocked to the legs too, leading to pain ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 15, 2008 |
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