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Immunological Karma: T Cells Reactive To Old Flu Infections Make Unrel
Childhood infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is often asymptomatic, while in adolescents and adults it causes infectious mononucleosis (IM). University of Massachusetts Medical School scientists now show how, in a strange twist of immunological karma, T cells specific to a previously encountered virus (such as the flu) may come back to haunt you, by overzealously responding to a subsequent, unrelated viral infection like EBV, increasing the severity of the immune response and causing IM. Human Decision-making Takes Multiple Brain Regions Performing Individu
The brain, the human supercomputer, might work more like an assembly line when recognizing objects, with a hierarchy of brain regions separately absorbing and processing information before a person realizes what they are seeing, according to new research in Neuroscience. This study used an innovative technique and analysis to show that human decision-making is a collaboration of brain regions performing individual functions. Wired's Gadget Lab Podcast: Gear for Your Ear
Listen up, gadget heads. The latest Wired News Gadget Lab podcast highlights the hottest new products covered on Wired.com this week, from the Sidekick LX and the eyeFi SD card adapter to a $100 HD-DVD Hitachi player you can get at Wal-Mart. Human Complexity And Diversity Spring From A Surprisingly Few (Relativ
It turns out that human complexity and diversity may spring from a surprisingly few number of genes, relatively speaking. RNA editing, the process by which cells use their genetic code to manufacture proteins, can greatly increase the number of gene products generated from a single gene, says Stefan Maas, assistant professor of biological sciences. Water-repellant water
That old truism about mixing oil and water can apply to water and water, according to researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Computer Security Can Double As Help For The Blind
Before you can post a comment to most blogs, you have to type in a series of distorted letters and numbers to prove that you are a person and not a computer attempting to add comment spam to the blog. What if -- instead of wasting your time and typing something like SGO9DXG -- you could label an image or perform some other quick task that will help someone who is visually-impaired do their grocery shopping? Workers Exposed To Libby Vermiculite Ore Have High Rate Of Chest Wall
More than one-quarter of tested workers at an Ohio manufacturing plant historically exposed to asbestos-containing vermiculite ore exhibited signs of scarring of the chest wall lining, or pleural plaques, which are usually considered markers of previous exposure to asbestos fibers, according to research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Breakup Of Glaciers Raising Sea Level Concern
The rapid structural breakdown of some important parts of the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica is possible, has happened in the distant past, and some "startling changes"on the margin of these ice masses has been observed in recent years -- raising disturbing concerns about sea level rise. Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2007
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2007 goes to Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces. Congratulations Professor!We have the semiconductor industry of the 1960s to thank for the emergence of surface chemistry. Gerhard Ertl was one of the first [...]
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