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ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Joint custody? Overnights away from home affect children's attachments

Posted: 19 Jul 2013 05:36 AM PDT

In joint custody arrangements, infants who spent overnights away from their mothers had less attachment to their mothers, a new study shows.

Recommended calorie information on menus does not improve consumer choices

Posted: 18 Jul 2013 01:15 PM PDT

Researchers recently put menu labels to the test by investigating whether providing diners with recommended calorie intake information along with the menu items caloric content would improve their food choices. The study showed that recommended calorie intake information did not help consumers use menu labeling more effectively.

Thwarting protein production slows cancer cells' malignant march

Posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:24 AM PDT

Protein production or translation is tightly coupled to a highly conserved stress response —- the heat shock response and its primary regulator, heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) —- that cancer cells rely on for survival and proliferation, according to researchers. In mouse models of cancer, therapeutic inhibition of translation interrupts HSF1's activity, dramatically slowing tumor growth and potentially rendering drug-resistant tumors responsive to other therapies.

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