Archive: 01/31/2008
Crossing the species line
A recent article published in Developmental and Comparative Immunology, the official journal of the International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI), draws attention to the fact that the plant immune ...
Biology /
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Towards a better understanding of hot spot volcanism
Most of the Earth’s listed active volcanoes are located at the borders between two tectonic plates, where upsurge of magma from the mantle is facilitated. When these magmatic uprisings occur at a subduction zone, where one ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2008 |
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A pilot program for harvesting Kodiak rockfish
In 2007, fishing for Pacific Rockfish (Sebastes sp.) took place in the Central Gulf of Alaska under a 5-year pilot program that incorporated fishery cooperatives instead of the usual “race for fish.” Results after the first ...
Biology /
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Scientists achieve major genetics breakthrough
University of Adelaide geneticist Dr Jozef Gecz and a team of Belgium and UK scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in discovering the causes of intellectual disability.
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Scientists discover new species of giant elephant-shrew
Although there is unquestionably much left to be discovered about life on Earth, charismatic animals like mammals are usually well documented, and it is rare to find a new species today—especially from a group ...
Biology /
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Study analyzes best approach for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)—a condition in which the large vessel that supplies blood to your abdomen, legs, and pelvis swells to over 50 percent its normal size—occurs in approximately 4 out of 100 adults. The risk ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 31, 2008 |
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A Taxing Issue: How Human T-lymphotropic Virus Can Cause Leukemia In Adults
Researchers have identified a potential new mechanism through which human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) causes leukemia in adults. The findings, published this week in the online open access journal Retrovirology, repres ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Cosmetic products may cause fatal infections in critically ill patients
Healthy consumers can handle the low levels of bacteria occasionally found in cosmetics. But for severely ill patients these bacteria may trigger life-threatening infections, as patients in the intensive care unit at one ...
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Study reveals improved prediction of prostrate cancer
Scientists are another step closer to understanding why some people suffer from life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Research published in the new online open access journal BMC Medical Genomics reveals a model that m ...
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Survey: Two-thirds of Illinois public schools provide comprehensive sex education
A study of sex education in Illinois public schools found that one out of three teachers did not meet a very forgiving definition of comprehensive instruction, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report ...
Jan 31, 2008 |
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The HLA-DRB1 gene and premature death in rheumatoid arthritis
People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an inflammatory autoimmune disease, tend to die younger and, largely from cardiovascular disease (CVD). One explanation for this increasingly recognized fact is that inflammation promotes ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical breakthrough may make a range of drugs cheaper and more available
A new study published in the February 2008 print edition of The FASEB Journal describes a scientific advance that should reduce the cost and increase the availability of a wide range of drugs. In the report, University of ...
Biology /
Jan 31, 2008 |
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