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Gene Changes Linked To Deficient Immune Suppression In Multiple Sclero
Oregon Health &Science University researchers have found that multiple sclerosis patients have lower expression of the FOXP3 gene found in a subset of T-cells that may regulate defense against MS and other autoimmune diseases. They say when FOXP3 is reduced due to abnormalities in expression, the suppressive activity of regulatory T-cells also plummets. But in a separate study, a T-cell receptor peptide vaccine called NeuroVax was shown to increase FOXP3 expression among MS patients. Bonuses Boost Performance 10 Times More Than Merit Raises
Giving a 1 percent raise boosts performance by roughly 2 percent, but offering that same money instead in the form of a bonus for a job well done should improve job performance by almost 20 percent, finds a new Cornell study. Duke, Woods Hole Geologists Discover 'Clockwork' Motion By Ocean Floor
A team of geologists from Duke University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has discovered a grinding, coordinated ballet of crustal "microplates"unfolding below the equatorial east Pacific Ocean within a construction zone for new seafloor. Anti-Bullying Law Proposed
A social networking site is fertile ground for teenagers to slag each other. Violence can ensue and now some legislators want a law making online bullying illegal. By the Associated Press. Beer's On Tap For Binge Drinkers
Beer is the beverage of choice for most adult binge drinkers, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The beverage preferences of excessive drinkers are important to public health because binge drinking is a common problem in the United States and because binge drinkers -- and those around them -- are especially vulnerable to alcohol-related problems, said one of the researchers. Researchers Find New Learning Strategy
Central to being human is the ability to adapt: we learn from our mistakes. Previous theories of learning have assumed that the size of learning naturally scales with the size of the mistake. But now biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have shown that people can use alternative strategies: Learning does not necessarily scale proportionally with error. Planet Earth May Have 'Tilted' To Keep Its Balance, Say Scientists
Princeton scientists have found evidence bolstering a 140-year-old theory regarding the way the Earth might restore its own balance if an unequal distribution of weight ever developed in its interior or on its surface. Scientists Create, Study Methane Hydrates In 'Ocean Floor' Lab
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for the study of methane-hydrates, an abundant but currently out-of-reach source of natural gas trapped within sediments below the ocean floor. A Balanced Memory Network
Ever wonder how much information we put in our heads? The answer: a lot. For starters, a typical vocabulary is 50,000-250,000 words. And then there are all the little details that stretch back decades -- the house we grew up in, the time we spilled orange juice on our test back in third grade, the solution to a quadratic equation (for some of us). So where do we put it all? If we had hard drives in our heads, the answer would be easy: we would store memories as 0s and 1s. In the Chips: AMD to Buy ATI
Planned $5.4 billion buyout gives Advanced Micro Devices ammo in its battle against rival chipmaker Intel.
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