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Medicine/Pharmacology - Social Sciences - 30.12.2010
Untreated ADHD common amongst male convicts
Men serving long prison sentences surprisingly often have a history of unrecognised and untreated ADHD, despite having had considerable problems since childhood. This according to a recent study published by a team of researchers from Karolinska Institutet in the scientific journal BMC Psychiatry.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 28.12.2010
Left wing or right wing It’s written in the brain
Left wing or right wing It's written in the brain
If you listen to Radio 4's Today Programme on any given day, you'll inevitably hear a spectrum of politic views from socialist through liberal to conservative. You may find yourself agreeing with the interviewee or irked by their politics depending on your own political persuasion.

History/Philosophy - Literature/Linguistics - 28.12.2010
Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history
Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history
New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture. The study by Cambridge University researchers suggests that, contrary to long-accepted views, Jews continued to use a Greek version of the Bible in synagogues for centuries longer than previously thought.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 23.12.2010
Paternal Diet Can Affect Genes And Health Of Offspring, Research Suggests
Dec. 23, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas — Environmental influences experienced by a father can be passed down to the next generation, "reprogramming" how genes function in offspring, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have discovered.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 23.12.2010
Brain gene makes a female develop as a male
Australian scientists have discovered that changes to a gene involved in brain development can lead to testis formation and male genitalia in an otherwise female embryo. Lead researcher Professor Andrew Sinclair of the University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute said the breakthrough would improve diagnosis and clinical management of patients with disorders of sex development (DSD).

Life Sciences - Chemistry - 22.12.2010
U of M researchers' discovery suggests a new way to prevent HIV from infecting human cells
Media Note: For a copy of the abstract and/or full article, contact Preston Smith or John Albin. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (12/22/2010) —Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered how HIV binds to and destroys a specific human antiviral protein called APOBEC3F.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 22.12.2010
Scientists reveal how biological activity is regulated in fruit fly and roundworm genomes
Scientists today published an almost complete catalog of the fruit fly and roundworm‘s functional elements ' sequences in the genome that carry out the instructions in the genome and determine which genes are turned on and off at various times in different cells.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 22.12.2010
Primary school children authors on science paper
Primary school children authors on science paper
A group of UK primary school children have achieved a world first by having their school science project accepted for publication in an internationally recognised peer-reviewed Royal Society journal.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 22.12.2010
Alzheimer’s changes detectable in healthy elderly
Alzheimer's changes detectable in healthy elderly
A team of UCL researchers, part-funded by the Alzheimer‘s Research Trust, has discovered that combining spinal fluid testing with MRI scans could provide an early indication of a person's risk of developing Alzheimer?s. The approach could allow scientists to test treatments or preventions far earlier in the disease, when experts believe they could be more effective.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 21.12.2010
Countering memory loss in the immune system
After recovering from a cold or other infection, your body's immune system is primed to react quickly if the same agent tries to infect you. White blood cells called memory T cells specifically remember the virus or bacterium and patrol the body looking for it.

Physics/Astronomy - 21.12.2010
World’s smallest periodic table?
PA 364/10 Scientists at The University of Nottingham have written what they believe is the world's smallest periodic table — on the side of a human hair. The table is so small that a million of them could be replicated on a typical post-it note.

Life Sciences - 21.12.2010
Autistic children’s exceptional visual search skills may not translate into everyday life
University of Nottingham News Press releases 2010 December Autistic children's exceptional visual search skills may not translate into everyday life PA 363/10 It is well established in scientific studies that children with autism repeatedly outperform typically-developing children on a range of visual search skills.

- 20.12.2010
Children with autism lack visual skills required for independence
Children with autism lack visual skills required for independence
The ability to find shoes in the bedroom, apples in a supermarket, or a favourite animal at the zoo is impaired among children with autism, according to new research from the University of Bristol.

Computer Science/Telecom - Business/Economics - 20.12.2010
Analysis of phone calls shows how political boundaries could be ideally drawn
Analysis of phone calls shows how political boundaries could be ideally drawn
In an ideal world, political boundaries would enclose groups of people who are connected to each other more than they are connected to outsiders. A new study using a computer algorithm developed at Cornell shows that Great Britain is - almost - already organized that way.

Chemistry - 20.12.2010
Carbon nanotubes could be ideal optical antennae
Carbon nanotubes could be ideal optical antennae
Just as walkie-talkies transmit and receive radio waves, carbon nanotubes can transmit and receive light at the nanoscale, Cornell researchers have discovered.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 20.12.2010
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not caused by XMRV
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not caused by XMRV
Links: Wellcome Trust Professor Greg Towers Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute A virus previously thought to be associated with chronic fatigue syndrome is not the cause of the disease, a detailed study led by UCL scientists has shown.

Physics/Astronomy - History/Philosophy - 20.12.2010
Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views of Rhea
PASADENA, Calif. - Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, revealing a history of tectonic rumbling.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 20.12.2010
Sheffield report reveals recommendation to mental health services for veterans
Sheffield report reveals recommendation to mental health services for veterans Mental health services for armed forces veterans suffering from a variety of mental health conditions should be staffed by people with knowledge and understanding of the Armed Forces, a University of Sheffield report has recommended.

Environmental Sciences - Life Sciences - 20.12.2010
Food in early life affects fertility
Study finds food in early life affects fertility The reproductive success of men and women is influenced by the food they receive at an early stage in life, according to new research by the University of Sheffield.

History/Philosophy - 20.12.2010
Lost civilization under Persian Gulf?
A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa, according to an article in the December issue of Current Anthropology.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 20.12.2010
How the eye builds circuits to detect motion
How the eye builds circuits to detect motion
Scientists could explain how the eye creates circuits to analyze motion. The detection of motion in the retina is based on circuit asymmetry, a fundamental computational principle in the brain. The scientsists showed that early after birth, nerve circuits in the retina go through a rapid transition from symmetric to asymmetric circuit states.

Life Sciences - Chemistry - 20.12.2010
Despite damage, membrane protein structure can be seen using new X-ray technology, study reveals
Australian researchers have identified a way to measure the structure of membrane proteins despite being damaged when using X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs), a discovery that will help fast track the development of targeted drugs using emerging XFELs technology.

Physics/Astronomy - 19.12.2010
The universe’s most massive stars can form in near isolation, new study finds
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—New observations by University of Michigan astronomers add weight to the theory that the most massive stars in the universe could form essentially anywhere, including in near isolation; they don't need a large stellar cluster nursery.

Business/Economics - Environmental Sciences - 17.12.2010
You only live once: our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability
You only live once: our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial marke
You only live once: our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability Our flawed understanding of how decisions in the present restrict options in the future means that we may underestimate the risk associated with investment decisions, according to new research - News release Our flawed understanding of how

Earth Sciences - Environmental Sciences - 17.12.2010
Raindrops reveal how a wave of mountains moved south across the country
Raindrops reveal how a wave of mountains moved south across the country
Analyzing the isotope ratios of ancient raindrops preserved in soils and lake sediments, Stanford researchers have shown that a wave of mountain building began in British Columbia, Canada, about 49 million years ago and rolled south to Mexico.

Physics/Astronomy - 17.12.2010
Spinning information for better memory
The University of Sydney's Dr Dane McCamey and his international colleagues have demonstrated that the spin of atomic nuclei in silicon can store information for over one hundred seconds and, importantly, that this information can then be read out electrically - a critical step in linking the emerging field of spintronics with classical electronics.

Physics/Astronomy - 17.12.2010
Herschel looks back in time to see today's stars bursting into life
Herschel looks back in time to see today's stars bursting into life
An international team of astronomers have presented the first conclusive evidence for a dramatic surge in star birth in a recently discovered population of massive galaxies in the early Universe.

Earth Sciences - Business/Economics - 16.12.2010
Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California
Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California
PASADENA, Calif. - New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major earthquake that rocked parts of the American Southwest and Mexico in April, including increased potential for more large earthquakes in Southern California.

Computer Science/Telecom - Life Sciences - 16.12.2010
FReD helps explain how a bee sees
FReD helps explain how a bee sees
FReD helps explain how a bee sees Researchers have developed a database that shows how colours appear to bees - News Adapted from a news release issued by Queen Mary, University of London Thursday 16 December 2010 Bees can see colours but they perceive the world differently to us, including variations in hue that we cannot distinguish with the naked eye.

Life Sciences - Chemistry - 16.12.2010
The code for survival
When cells are exposed to life-threatening stresses, they take quick action to save themselves. Among other defenses, they start manufacturing proteins that perform critical tasks such as repairing DNA.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.12.2010
A good night's sleep the key to being attractive
Medicine/Pharmacology - Chemistry - 14.12.2010
Zebrafish provide new hope for cancer treatment
Earth Sciences - Physics/Astronomy - 14.12.2010
Catch a falling star and find out where it came from
Medicine/Pharmacology - 14.12.2010
Life and death (and sex and sewage) in a Roman town
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.12.2010
Scientists identify how virus triggers cervical and mouth cancer
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.12.2010
University scientists expose health risks of not responding to stress
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 14.12.2010
Sipping green tea regularly can alter how we perceive flavor
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.12.2010
Unique case study on Alzheimer's disease
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 13.12.2010
Fighter pilots’ brains are more sensitive?
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 13.12.2010
Leukaemia stem cell discovery
Medicine/Pharmacology - 13.12.2010
Screening can pick up early signs of womb cancer
Medicine/Pharmacology - Business/Economics - 13.12.2010
New research centre will bridge the gap between academia and health policy
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 13.12.2010
Two genes linked to common gynaecological disease
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 13.12.2010
In the future: processing and memory on a single chip
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 10.12.2010
Genome of barley disease reveals surprises
Medicine/Pharmacology - 10.12.2010
Starfish inspire inflammation research
Earth Sciences - Business/Economics - 10.12.2010
Iron legacy leaves soil high in manganese
Earth Sciences - Computer Science/Telecom - 8.12.2010
Redrawing the map of Great Britain based on human interaction
Computer Science/Telecom - Mathematics - 8.12.2010
Geotagging reveals not only where you are, but also people you might know
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 8.12.2010
Scientists discover brain’s inherent ability to focus learning
Medicine/Pharmacology - 8.12.2010
MS may be reversed, study suggests
Physics/Astronomy - Earth Sciences - 8.12.2010
NASA’s Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 8.12.2010
See off Alzheimer’s with the colour purple
Physics/Astronomy - 7.12.2010
Sneak Attacks from the Sun
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 7.12.2010
Forget your previous conceptions about memory
Environmental Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 7.12.2010
Aussies say science knocks sport for six
Medicine/Pharmacology - 7.12.2010
Daily aspirin at low doses reduces cancer deaths
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 6.12.2010
Scientists shed light on blood flow problems in dementia
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.12.2010
Seeing the world differently
Physics/Astronomy - 6.12.2010
Antimatter: A step forward
Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.12.2010
New possibility of reversing damage caused by MS
Medicine/Pharmacology - Pedagogy/Education Science - 6.12.2010
Breaking down barriers in child mental health
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 3.12.2010
New theory on the origin of water on Earth
Medicine/Pharmacology - 3.12.2010
Venomous lizards could help heart patients
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 3.12.2010
Faulty gene linked to disorders of sexual development
Medicine/Pharmacology - 3.12.2010
How the stem cell niche never dies
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 2.12.2010
New brain imaging tests to track Huntingdon s
Pedagogy/Education Science - Psychology - 2.12.2010
Relationship-strengthening class improves life for new families
Physics/Astronomy - 2.12.2010
Probing Question: Is the moon shrinking?
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 1.12.2010
Scientists ratchet up understanding of cellular protein factory
Life Sciences - Chemistry - 1.12.2010
Novel approach to chronic pain relief
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 1.12.2010
NASA Aids in Characterizing Super-Earth Atmosphere
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 1.12.2010
Super-Earth Has an Atmosphere, But Is It Steamy or Gassy?
Physics/Astronomy - 1.12.2010
The Universe Does Think Small
Environmental Sciences - Earth Sciences - 1.12.2010
Predicting ocean motions and underwater sounds
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 1.12.2010
More fruit and veg unlikely to protect against cancer
Environmental Sciences - Business/Economics - 1.12.2010
Developed world at risk of forgetting about AIDS pandemic
Psychology - History/Philosophy - 1.12.2010
Looking inside the minds of humans and other animals
Environmental Sciences - Chemistry - 30.11.2010
Formic acid in the engine
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 30.11.2010
Report sets new dietary intake levels for calcium and vitamin D
Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics - Physics/Astronomy - 30.11.2010
Engineering Team Discovers Graphene’s Weakness
Media Sciences/Political Sciences - 30.11.2010
WikiLeaks: to publish or not to publish, that is the question
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 29.11.2010
Crucial sex hormones re-routed by missing molecule
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 29.11.2010
Thin Air - Cassini Finds Ethereal Atmosphere at Rhea
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 29.11.2010
Scientists find gene linked to male birth defect
Life Sciences - Environmental Sciences - 29.11.2010
Adventures in a sea of noise
Environmental Sciences - 29.11.2010
Getting the measure of poverty
Physics/Astronomy - 29.11.2010
Scientists put a new spin on nanotechnology
Medicine/Pharmacology - Environmental Sciences - 28.11.2010
Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick
Life Sciences - Mathematics - 26.11.2010
How the stingray got its spots
Physics/Astronomy - Physics/Nanosciences/Material science - 26.11.2010
LHC experiments bring new insight into primordial universe
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 26.11.2010
Cassini reveals oxygen atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Rhea
Life Sciences - 26.11.2010
Where are all the flowers from?
Earth Sciences - History/Philosophy - 26.11.2010
Identifying Eadgyth
Social Sciences - Media Sciences/Political Sciences - 25.11.2010
Plurilingual Switzerland
Medicine/Pharmacology - Psychology - 24.11.2010
Jet lagged and forgetful It's no coincidence
Business/Economics - 24.11.2010
Stroke survivors survey published
Environmental Sciences - Computer Science/Telecom - 23.11.2010
Midwest farm drainage systems partly to blame for Gulf of Mexico dead zones
Business/Economics - Law/Forensics - 23.11.2010
Tobacco: Out of sight, out of mind?
Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy - 23.11.2010
World first to provide building blocks for new nano devices
Medicine/Pharmacology - 22.11.2010
Cholesterol drug shows benefits for kidney patients
Environmental Sciences - Earth Sciences - 22.11.2010
Ocean Acidification Study Reveals Added Danger to Reefs
Business/Economics - 22.11.2010
Delphi: The bellybutton of the ancient world
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 22.11.2010
30 new gene variants linked to Crohn's disease
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 19.11.2010
Chromosome key to later fertility
Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics - 19.11.2010
Researchers uncover surprise link between weird quantum phenomena
Life Sciences - 19.11.2010
All viruses can be DNA stowaways?
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 18.11.2010
Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
Environmental Sciences - Life Sciences - 18.11.2010
Squid: lessons from the deep
Medicine/Pharmacology - Environmental Sciences - 17.11.2010
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Physics/Astronomy - 17.11.2010
Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN
Life Sciences - Pedagogy/Education Science - 17.11.2010
DNA study puts family history to the test
Life Sciences - 17.11.2010
Brains, reading & stuttering
Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom - 17.11.2010
Caltech Physicists Demonstrate a Four-Fold Quantum Memory
History/Philosophy - Official Event - 17.11.2010
Probing Question: Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?
Medicine/Pharmacology - Computer Science/Telecom - 17.11.2010
Speech monitoring could track Parkinson s
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 17.11.2010
Cancer drug target is promising lead for new TB treatments
Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 16.11.2010
Scientists step closer to understanding secrets of anti-matter
Medicine/Pharmacology - 16.11.2010
Drug cuts stroke risk in heart patients
Environmental Sciences - Psychology - 16.11.2010
Dire messages about global warming can backfire, new study shows
Earth Sciences - History/Philosophy - 16.11.2010
Study rewrites the evolutionary history of C4 grasses
Environmental Sciences - Media Sciences/Political Sciences - 16.11.2010
Climate science under-reported at Copenhagen
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 16.11.2010
Origin of cells associated with nerve repair discovered
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 16.11.2010
Aortic aneurysm treatable with asthma drugs
Computer Science/Telecom - Electroengineering/Microtechnics - 15.11.2010
‘Space-time cloak’ to conceal events revealed in new study
Medicine/Pharmacology - Law/Forensics - 15.11.2010
Scientists identify criminal virus spreaders
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.11.2010
Microsensors offer first look at whether cell mass affects growth rate
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.11.2010
Overactive FTO gene does cause overeating and obesity
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 15.11.2010
Magic number 695 opens up new areas for Alzheimer’s research
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.11.2010
More evidence that melanoma does not conform to the cancer stem cell model
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 13.11.2010
Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Boost Bacteria-Killing Cells
Business/Economics - 12.11.2010
Britons pessimistic about financial future
Social Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 12.11.2010
Severe acne increase the risk of suicide attempt
Medicine/Pharmacology - Literature/Linguistics - 11.11.2010
Real cause of Brecht’s demise revealed
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 11.11.2010
X-rays illuminate the mechanism used by HIV to attack human DNA
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 11.11.2010
Circuitry of fear identified
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 10.11.2010
Scientists Describe the Delicate Balance in the Brain that Controls Fear
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 10.11.2010
Book, research explore whether fish feel pain
Physics/Astronomy - 10.11.2010
Cassini Sees Saturn on a Cosmic Dimmer Switch
Life Sciences - Psychology - 10.11.2010
U of M researchers find learning in the visual brain
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 10.11.2010
Tuning in to a new hearing mechanism
Medicine/Pharmacology - 9.11.2010
Alzheimers clues found in middle-aged adults