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[Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. New Dye Could Offer Early Test For Alzheimer's; MIT Technique Is Nonin
MIT scientists have developed a new dye that could offer noninvasive early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, a discovery that could aid in monitoring the progression of the disease and in studying the efficacy of new treatments to stop it. The new dye, called NIAD-4, was developed through a targeted design process based on a set of specific requirements, including the ability to enter the brain rapidly upon injection, bind to amyloid plaques, absorb and fluoresce radiation in the right spectral range, and provide sharp contrast between the plaques and the surrounding tissue. An HIV Protein Plays A Surprising Role In Gene Activation
The transcriptional activator, HIV-1 Tat, not only acts by promoting RNA polymerase processivity, but it is able to promote transcription complex assembly in the absence of TATA-box-binding protein-associated factors. Pushing The Limits Of Hard Disk Storage
Just how much data can we cram onto a hard disk ? In a paper appearing online today in Physical Review Letters, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Professor Harald Brune and his colleagues report what they believe to be the ultimate density limit of magnetic recording.
Best Blogfights of 2006
When bloggers weren't busy taking cash bribes or collecting free laptops courtesy of Microsoft, they spent 2006 pissing in the link pool. Here's our look back at the blogosphere's best arguments, attacks, slights and scrums from the past year. By Michael Calore. Diet, Stress Management May Help Slow Spread Of Prostate Cancer
Statistics say that one out of six American men will develop prostate cancer and more than a third will experience a recurrence after undergoing treatment, putting them at high risk to die of the disease. In a study published in SAGE publication's Integrative Cancer Therapies, Dr. Saxe and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego found that diet changes, reinforced by stress management training, may be effective in slowing the spread of this deadly cancer. Surprise Discovery Of Highly Developed Structure In The Young Universe
Combining observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, astronomers have discovered the most distant, very massive structure in the Universe known so far. Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA) [Free Resources]
WELCOA is a "national non-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting healthier life styles for all Americans, especially through health promotion initiatives at the worksite."This free portion of the website provides resources for health observances for each month of the year, news, interviews, reports, case studies, surveys and reports, and related information about topics such as health promotion programs, health savings accounts, and incentives in worksite wellness programs. Pregnancy Complications Related To Low Levels Of Anti--Clotting Protei
Recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, preeclampsia, poor fetal growth, preterm delivery and bleeding in pregnancy are influenced by low levels of the anti--clotting proteins Z and S, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March issue of Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Atoms In A Roundabout
Scientists for the first time observed so-called ferrotoroidic domains. They were able to discern two different types, depending on magnetic spin direction. By manipulating such domains, which should be technically possible, one could store and process data much faster than with current computers.
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