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Baylor University researchers have identified a key component that increases the toxicity of golden algae (Prymnesium parvum), which kills millions of fish in the southern U.S. every year.
The Baylor study is the first to determine what makes the deadly golden algae more potent in inland waters. The results have been published the journal Toxicon.
While golden [...]
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People who did not earn a high school diploma could be more likely to get H1N1 and the vaccine might be less effective in them compared to those who earned a diploma, new research shows.
The University of Michigan study looked at a latent virus called CMV in young people, and the body`s ability to control [...]
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Heart attacks appear to have become more common in middle-aged women over the past two decades, but all women and especially those younger than 55 have recently experienced a greater increase than men in their chances of survival following such a heart event, according to two reports in the October 26 issue of Archives of [...]
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With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California`s San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its quiet neighbor to the east, the Southern San Andreas fault, according to an article in the journal Nature Geoscience.
"Those minor to moderate events along the San Jacinto [...]
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The effectiveness of a screening colonoscopy may depend on the time of day it is performed. According to a new UCLA study, early-morning colonoscopies yielded more polyps per patient than later screenings, and fewer polyps were found hour by hour as the day progressed.
The findings, published in the November issue of the journal Clinical Gastroenterology [...]
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A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and measurements of the planet`s surface, atmosphere and magnetic field.
The MErcury Surface, Space [...]
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People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items. That is the conclusion by researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and the Centre for Agro-Food Research and Technology of Aragón (CITA) in a new study on the nutritional labelling of breakfast [...]
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Nearly 4.5 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in our country, and more than half of them are women, according to the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. As the general population continues to age, this number is expected to increase significantly over the next few decades.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form [...]
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Aren`t you ashamed of yourself? All these years, you`ve been trying to build up your child`s self-esteem, and now a growing body of research suggests you may be making a big mistake. A study published in the December issue of Child Development finds that early adolescents with high self-esteem are more likely [...]
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have designed a gene that produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells.
The findings may help address the prime challenge in anti-cancer therapy: improving treatments` ability to specifically and effectively target cancer cells. Using this new approach, scientists should be able to insert "self-destruct" [...]
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