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Week: Spooky Scots, Sword Throat
Juicy stories during the week that was take us to the end of the old year: Edinburgh University has a unit on parapsychology, bovine clones make good beefsteak, sword swallowers get the worst sword throats and you can test yourself for girly brains. In Bodyhack. Computer Modeling Reveals Hidden Conversations Within Cells
UCSD biochemists have developed a computer program that helps explain a long-standing mystery: how the same proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including those leading to immune responses and cancer. Multiple Sclerosis Progression Linked To Immune-cell Substance
A new study suggests that a substance made by immune cells plays a key role in the progression of a disease in animals that closely mimics multiple sclerosis (MS). The findings further suggest that blocking the molecule, known as macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) might prevent the progression of the disease. Researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center conducted the study using mice that develop a disease that mimics MS. Traditional Values Coalition: Empowering People of Faith Through Knowl
This Christian lobbying organization "focuses upon issues such as education, homosexual advocacy, family tax relief, pornography, the right to life and religious freedom."The site features a definition of "traditional values"(including opposition to "all sexual behaviors outside of marriage between one man and one woman"), editorials, and reports on topics such as marriage protection amendments and abortion. Searchable. Eating Disorders In Adolescents
A new study, one of the first to examine trends in adolescent weight control behaviors over a 10-year period, found that the prevalence of these behaviors in male adolescents significantly increased, while black females appear to resist pressure to pursue thinness. 2000 Tigers Possible In Thailand, Study Says
Thailand's Western Forest Complex -- a 6,900 square mile (18,000 square kilometers) network of parks and wildlife reserves -- can potentially support some 2,000 tigers, making it one of the world's strongholds for these emblematic big cats, according to a new study. Americans Believe Global Warming Is Real, Want Action, But Not As A Pr
Most Americans believe global warming is real but a moderate and distant risk. While they strongly support policies like investing in renewable energy, higher fuel economy standards and international treaties, they strongly oppose carbon taxes on energy sources that put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Medical Induction Of Labor Increases Risk Of Amniotic-fluid Embollism
A Canadian population-based cohort study has revealed that medical induction of labor increases the risk of amniotic-fluid embolism. The study was led by Dr. Michael Kramer, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Senior Investigator from McGill University, and will be published in the Oct. 21 issue of the Lancet. Study Identifies Possible Mechanism For Brain Damage In Huntington's D
Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease have identified a possible mechanism underlying how the gene mutation that causes Huntington's disease leads to the degeneration and death of brain cells. Common Blood Pressure Drug Reduces Progressive Muscle Degeneration In
Scientists supported in part by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have found that that the commonly prescribed blood pressure medication losartan improves muscle regeneration and repair in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a devastating disease characterized by rapid progression of muscle degeneration in boys and young men.
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