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Cruise Critic
This is a "cruise vacation planning guide which includes objective cruise reviews on 225+ships, 55 cruise line profiles, information on what to do and where to go in 135+worldwide ports, readers' ship ratings and reviews, cruise bargains and cruise tips."Browse cruises by destination, city of departure, cruise line, price range, interest (such as golf), and lifestyle (such as gay and lesbian). From the Independent Traveler, publishers of a travel exchange website. Suture
story links: Suture In Amoeba World, Cheating Doesn't Pay
Researchers are peeling back the layers of strategy that determine how colonies of social amoebas resist the efforts of cheaters to alter the balance of power. National Weather Service: Climate Prediction Center: Winter Outlook
"In October the CPC [Climate Prediction Center] posts the Winter Outlook, which reviews climate influences on the upcoming winter season and the likely weather impacts on various regions of the United States."Also includes a link to information about climate factors helping to shape anticipated winter weather, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, or NAO, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation, or MJO. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). New Imaging Technology Shown To Detect Pancreatic Inflammation In Type
A key obstacle to early detection of type 1 diabetes - as well as to rapid assessment of the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention - has been the lack of direct, non-invasive technologies to visualize inflammation in the pancreas, an early manifestation of disease. Instead, clinicians have had to await overt symptoms before diagnosing an individual, by which time destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas has already progressed significantly. Web Images Can Be Used To Add Realism To Edited Photos
Computer graphics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed systems for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web. Loving Day
Background about this "educational community project ... [focused on] Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in the United States. Loving Day celebrations commemorate the anniversary of the Loving decision every year on or around June 12th."Features a legal map of interracial relationship restrictions prior to the decision, history of key legal cases, celebration ideas, and more. HYPER-CEST MRI Breaks New Ground In Molecular Imaging
Researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new technique for Magnetic Resonance Imaging that allows detection of signals from molecules present at 10,000 times lower concentrations than conventional MRI techniques. Called HYPER-CEST, this technique could become a valuable tool for medical diagnosis, including the early detection of cancer. Brain Tumor Study Reveals Why Treatment Efforts Fail In Genetic Disord
Drugs used to treat the tumors common in people with a disorder called neurofibromatosis 1 rarely work, and scientists now know why. The chemotherapy drugs target a group of related proteins, call RAS proteins, which are thought to be responsible for these tumors. But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that the disease affects only one member of the protein family, and it happens to be the one form of RAS thatdoes not respond well to these particular treatments. Women Still At Risk Of Cervical Cancer Despite Treatment Removing Pre-
Women who have had pre-cancerous cells removed remain at higher than average risk of developing cervical cancer in the 20 years following treatment, says research in this week's BMJ.
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