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The swine flu (H1N1) pandemic has received extensive media coverage this year. The World Health Organization, in addition to providing frequent updates about cases of infection and death tolls, recommends hyper vigilance in daily hygiene such as frequent hand washing or sneezing into the crook of our arms. News reports at all levels, from local [...]
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Annemarie Surlykke from the University of Southern Denmark is fascinated by echolocation. She really wants to know how it works. Surlykke equates the ultrasound cries that bats use for echolocation with the beam of light from a torch: you won`t see much with the light from a small bulb but you could see several hundred [...]
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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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People with certain high-risk gene combinations* are eight times more likely to suffer from a severe and prolonged illness when they have an infection, according to UNSW researchers. This group of people is significantly more likely to have an intense illness during the acute stage of an infection – when fever, aches and pain strike [...]
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A new study shows that juvenile delinquents sentenced to either a juvenile retreat, probation or unsupervised community service were seven times more likely to commit criminal acts as adults than youngsters from the control group who managed to avoid the juvenile justice system.
The findings come from Frank Vitaro, a psycho-education professor at the Université de [...]
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A new study by Northern Illinois University scientists underscores the danger of nighttime tornadoes and suggests that warning systems that have led to overall declines in tornado death rates might not be adequate for overnight events, which occur most frequently in the nation`s mid-South region.
Over the past century, the tornado death rate has declined, in [...]
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Life can be stressful, whether you`re an individual watching the stock market crash or a commuter stuck in traffic. A new study, forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science, examines how stress affects decision-making and finds that older adults alter their behavior more than young adults when under stress — particularly in situations involving risk.
"People haven`t [...]
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Youth in their late teens who live in poor neighbourhoods are four times more likely to attempt suicide than peers who live in more affluent neighbourhoods, according to a new study from Canada`s Université de Montréal and Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, as well as Tufts University in the U.S. The researchers also found youth from [...]
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