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Saturday, January 7, 2012
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ScienceDaily: Top Health News
ScienceDaily: Top Health News |
- Tobacco company misrepresented danger from cigarettes, study suggests
- Master controller of memory identified
- Patterns of connections reveal brain functions
- Drug to treat HIV in children shows promise via national clinical trial
- Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients
- Malignancy-risk gene signature for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer found
- How poor maternal diet can increase risk of diabetes: New mechanism discovered
- Cancer treatment with minor side effects
- Measuring the dialogue between cortical areas in non-communicating patients
- Moderate red wine drinking may help cut women’s breast cancer risk, study suggests
- Research demonstrating link between virus and MS could point the way to treatment and prevention
| Tobacco company misrepresented danger from cigarettes, study suggests Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST A new analysis of tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris USA manipulated data on the effects of additives in cigarettes, including menthol, obscuring actual toxicity levels and increasing the risk of heart, cancer and other diseases for smokers, study says.  |
| Master controller of memory identified Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST One gene appears to regulate the brain's ability to form new memories.  |
| Patterns of connections reveal brain functions Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST Neuroscientists have identified face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.  |
| Drug to treat HIV in children shows promise via national clinical trial Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:58 AM PST For children with HIV infection, the FDA approval of the use of raltegravir, an antiretroviral drug that slows the spread of HIV infection, offers a new weapon to treat HIV infection in children.  |
| Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:03 AM PST New research highlights the possibility of reversing aging in the central nervous system for multiple sclerosis patients.  |
| Malignancy-risk gene signature for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer found Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST A malignancy-risk gene signature developed for breast cancer has been found to have predictive and prognostic value for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer.  |
| How poor maternal diet can increase risk of diabetes: New mechanism discovered Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:05 AM PST Researchers have shown one way in which poor nutrition in the womb can put a person at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other age-related diseases in later life. This finding could lead to new ways of identifying people who are at a higher risk of developing these diseases and might open up targets for treatment.  |
| Cancer treatment with minor side effects Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Side effects are currently the biggest problem with any cancer treatment. A new company is drawing closer to the goal of creating a treatment which kills only cancer cells, leaving other cells unaffected.  |
| Measuring the dialogue between cortical areas in non-communicating patients Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Measuring the level of internal brain communication allows single-subject discrimination between vegetative state patients and patients who recover a minimal level of consciousness, study suggests. Crucially, this can be obtained at the bedside and does not rely on the integrity of sensory and motor pathways nor on the subject's ability to comprehend or carry out instructions.  |
| Moderate red wine drinking may help cut women’s breast cancer risk, study suggests Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:59 AM PST Drinking red wine in moderation may reduce one of the risk factors for breast cancer, providing a natural weapon to combat a major cause of death among U.S. women, new research shows.  |
| Research demonstrating link between virus and MS could point the way to treatment and prevention Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:20 AM PST A new study from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London shows how a particular virus tricks the immune system into triggering inflammation and nerve cell damage in the brain, which is known to cause MS.  |
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The Cynical Girl: F@%k It Friday: Window Treatments
The Cynical Girl: F@%k It Friday: Window Treatments |  |
| F@%k It Friday: Window Treatments Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:45 AM PST
Nothing. Let the sun shine into the windows and wake me up. That’s awesome. I don’t want to sleep too late, anyway. Until I get my dream house, I have Hunter Douglas honeycomb duette shades because I want neutral window treatments that let in light but keep out the UV. I don’t want drapes. I don’t want curtains. I don’t want plantation shutters. I just want privacy because I have a fear that some gross dude is peering into my windows. It’s not a crazy fear, by the way. My grandmother slept with blackout shades. Her bedroom had the feel of a crack den. The darkness was weird and her room felt so stuff to me. She said, “I need it dark to sleep.” Hm. It’s dark at night. When it’s light, you wake up. I wonder — what’s on your windows? Do you need it pitch black to sleep? Or do you like to wake up naturally to sunlight? And what does your dream house look like?                |
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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News
ScienceDaily: Top Technology News |
- First hint of the Higgs boson particle
- Hybrid silkworms spin stronger spider silk
- Now you see it, now you didn't: Researchers cloak a moment in time
| First hint of the Higgs boson particle Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:03 AM PST The answer to one of the most exciting questions in particle physics seems almost close enough to touch: Scientists have observed first signs of the Higgs boson and now believe that they will soon be able to prove the existence of the elementary particle they have been trying so hard to isolate.  |
| Hybrid silkworms spin stronger spider silk Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST Silk produced by transgenically-engineered silkworms in the lab exhibit the highly sought-after strength and elasticity of spider silk. This stronger silk could possibly be used to make sutures, artificial limbs and parachutes.  |
| Now you see it, now you didn't: Researchers cloak a moment in time Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:13 AM PST Think Harry Potter movie magic: Researchers have demonstrated a "temporal cloak" -- albeit on a very small scale -- in the transport of information by a beam of light.  |
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ScienceDaily: Top Environment News
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News |
- Bycatch-22: Protecting Butterfish
- Hybrid silkworms spin stronger spider silk
- Multi-year prediction of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 °N possible
- Identifying sloth species at a genetic level
- New culprit in Earth's massive extinction: Mercury
- Jeanne Baret, botanist and first female circumnavigator, finally commemorated in name of new species
| Bycatch-22: Protecting Butterfish Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST Scientists work to assist fishermen in ways to avoid accidentally hauling in butterfish, a species protected by fishing limits. The researchers develop models to predict where the fish will be.  |
| Hybrid silkworms spin stronger spider silk Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST Silk produced by transgenically-engineered silkworms in the lab exhibit the highly sought-after strength and elasticity of spider silk. This stronger silk could possibly be used to make sutures, artificial limbs and parachutes.  |
| Multi-year prediction of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 °N possible Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Climate scientists have now shown for the first time that the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 °N can be skillfully predicted for up to four years.  |
| Identifying sloth species at a genetic level Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Identifying species, separating out closely related species and managing each type on its own, is an important part of any animal management system. Some species, like the two types of two-toed sloth, are so close in appearance and behavior that differentiation can be challenging. Conservation researchers have developed a mechanism for identifying these reclusive species from each other.  |
| New culprit in Earth's massive extinction: Mercury Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:58 PM PST Researchers have discovered a new culprit likely involved in Earth's greatest extinction event: an influx of mercury into the ecosystem.  |
| Jeanne Baret, botanist and first female circumnavigator, finally commemorated in name of new species Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:51 AM PST In 1766, Frenchwoman Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to work as assistant botanist on the first French circumnavigation of the globe. Though Baret helped to collect over 6,000 specimens, she was left without anything in the natural world to commemorate her name. That is now to change as a biologist names his newly discovered species -- a relative of the potato, Solanum baretiae.  |
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