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Surprise In The Organic Orchard -- A Healthier Worm In The Apple
Insects can catch more than a cold from certain viruses. Some viruses can be lethal to pest species - turning their insides to soup - without harming beneficial insects or other organisms. Hence they are used as an environmentally friendly means of biological crop protection worldwide. The proverbial worm in the apple, the codling moth caterpillar, has been controlled in European orchards for years. But in southwest Germany, some organic apple growers noticed that the virus was losing its effectiveness. Pest resistance to chemical insecticides is common in agriculture, but resistance to viruses had never been a problem in the past. Scientists have now discovered how the codling moth rapidly developed virus resistance. Cats Can Succumb To Feline Alzheimer's Disease, Study Shows
Aging cats can develop a feline form of Alzheimer's disease, a new study reveals. Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Bristol and California have identified a key protein which can build up in the nerve cells of a cat's brain and cause mental deterioration. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Young Children Getting Fewer Hours Of Sleep
While it has been widely reported that older children, teens and adults aren't getting enough sleep, it turns out that younger children might be sleep deprived as well. A study by researchers at Bradley Hospital and Brown Medical School finds that children five and under get less than the recommended amount of sleep. Physical Education And Active Play Help Teens Maintain Normal Weight A
Adolescents who participate in physical education at school are more likely to maintain a normal weight as young adults, according to a new study. For each weekday of physical education at school the odds of being an overweight adult decreased by 5 percent. Participation in all five days of physical education decreased the odds of being an overweight adult by 28 percent. Mechanism Of RNA Recoding: New Twists In Brain Protein Production
University of Connecticut Health Center scientist, Robert Reenan, has uncovered new rules of RNA recoding--a genetic editing method cells use to expand the number of proteins assembled from a single DNA code. According to his work, the shape a particular RNA adopts solely determines how editing enzymes modify the information molecule inside cells. Finding May Explain Link Between Alcohol And Certain Cancers
Drinking alcoholic beverages has been linked to an increased risk of upper gastrointestinal cancer and other cancers. Researchers looking for the potential biochemical basis for this link have focused on acetaldehyde, a suspected carcinogen formed as the body metabolizes alcohol. In the journal Nucleic Acids Research, scientists from the NIAAA and NIST report that polyamines react with acetaldehyde to trigger a series of reactions that damage DNA, which can lead to the formation of cancer. Los Alamos Developing New Eclipse-based Tools For High-performance Par
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Eclipse Foundation announced the Parallel Tools Platform Project, a new Eclipse Technology project aimed at creating better open source software tools for parallel computers. Tonsillectomy Significantly Improves Quality Of Life In Adult And Pedi
Tonsillectomies to treat chronic and recurrent tonsillitis substantially improve a patient's quality of live in both children and adults, according to two new studies. Tonsillectomy remains one of the most common procedures performed on children each year, and while the number of incidences in adults is lower, it is still a routine operation. Storing Data On Atomic Roundabouts
Scientists have demonstrated the existence of right-handed and left-handed "magnetic vortices". They believe that this physical phenomenon could eventually lead to the construction of faster and more reliable hard-disks.
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