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Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

...ch up. The ability to compensate for lost sleep is itself lost, which is damaging both physically and mentally, he added. During the study, animals were kept awake for 20 hours per day followed by a four-hour sleep opportunity, over five consecutive days. The researchers monitored their brain wave and mus...

Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

...d UN report on global warming, had observed in May itself possibly the lake disappeared due to a relatively common glacial phenomenon: a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF). A GLOF is a sudden increase in a lakes volume due to one of various possible causes, including a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, an ...

Combination of Bronchoscopic Techniques is Very Effective for Lung Lesions

... The researchers found that the EBUS procedure by itself had a diagnostic yield of 69 percent. ENB alone had a diagnostic yield of 59 percent. But the combination of the two increased the diagnostic yield to 88 percent, independent of lesion sizea highly significant improvement. In addition, the research...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...ed in 2005, said the agency was trying to "purify" itself but continues its skulduggery today. While there is no evidence that the CIA has plotted to kill Castro since the Ford Administration banned assassination plots against foreign leaders in 1976, Escalante sees the hand of the CIA in more recent atte...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...may explain why the human body is unable to repair itself after most spinal cord injuries. The study, led by Katerina Akassoglou, Ph.D., assistant professor in UCSDs Department of Pharmacology, is the first evidence that when blood leaks into the nervous system, the blood protein contributes to the neurons...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...gression, with the disorder claiming or presenting itself between 14 and 24 months of age. Some children with only mild delays at 14 months of age could go on to be diagnosed with ASD. Landa and her colleagues observed distinct differences in the developmental paths, or trajectories, of children with earl...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...id the finding suggests the possibility that yeast itself may contain non-glutamine and asparagine-rich prions. "We just haven't looked for them," she said. The finding also underscores the value of the yeast model for studying factors necessary to propagate prions, now that it's been shown that propagati...

Role of MicroRNA in Cancer Suppression Identified

...R-34a). Based on the likelihood that miR-34a could itself play a role in cellular apoptosis, researchers introduced miR-34a directly into human cancer cell lines to determine its impact on tumor cell behavior. The results clearly demonstrated that overexpression of miR-34a led to increased cancer cell death...

Harry Potter Final Book - Prediction and Expectations

... influences and create something unique that is in itself a work of art." "Another thing that makes the series successful is the mystery component of the book," Westman said. "For example, you keep reading in the first book to figure out whether Harry and his friends are going to figure out what the philo...

Taj Mahal, Symbol of Love - New Seven Wonders of the World

...sent at the ceremony. Earlier UNESCO had distanced itself from the ceremony and dismissed the current method of choosing the seven wonders....

777 Couples Married on 7.07.07

...the knot on 7 July 2007 a date that doesnt repeat itself in a century. The Chinese and the Indian calendar consider the date 7.07.07 a very auspicious day. Jane Lim and Keith Chua were dating for nine years before they decided to choose this auspicious date for their marriage. Chua said: "We both ...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...ffectively. Although atrial fibrillation is not in itself considered life-threatening, people with it are at an increased risk for blood clots and stroke. While some experience no symptoms and most others seem to suffer little more than weakness or shortness of breath, atrial fibrillation is now recognize...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...ncodes a protein that the virus needs to replicate itself and inserted it into maize plants. When the virus infects one of these transgenic maize plants, the mutated protein, which is expressed at a high level, prevents the virus from replicating and killing the plant. The transgenic maize variety has pr...

Malawi Targets 150,000 People With AIDS Drugs

Malawi has set itself a target of supplying 150,000 HIV sufferers with free anti-retroviral drugs by the end of year, the head of the national AIDS commission (NAC) said on Monday . "We are close to 110,000 people on ARVs and we hope to hit 150,000 by the end of Decembe...

Water Hyacinth is Used for Health Improvements in Africa

...ed to be the cradle of human evolution. The lake itself is a natural laboratory of evolutionary biology because of its diverse cichlid fish populations, and it has provided livelihoods for humans for many thousands of years. With no natural enemies in Africa, the water hyacinth proliferated around Lake ...

Olive-pomace Oil Compound Inhibits HIV Spread

...erin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to discharge itself from the infected cell into the extra cellular environment and, subsequently, to spread the infection into the whole body. These scientists, headed by Prof. Andres Garcia-Granados, senior lecturer in Organic Chemistry are firm that the use of oliv...

A Role Model Spouse can Pass on Good Health Habits

...that a spouse's habits and sometimes even marriage itself can influence individual health behaviours. Unlike some previous research on positive health behaviour, the new study tracked changes in both spouses at the same time. The findings could point toward a new approach for doctors looking to improv...

The Importance of Junk DNA

...s a particular gene. Each domain is an entity unto itself that is defined, or bracketed, by a boundary, much as words in a sentence are bracketed by punctuation marks. The researchers data suggest that repeated genomic sequences might be a widely used strategy used in mammals to organize functional domain...

Pfizer Says Nigeria Gave Approval for 1996 Drug Test

...the US market. She said the company would defend itself against the suits during the next hearing. The Nigerian federal government filed its suit on June 4 in Abuja for almost seven billion dollars in damages against the US drug firm, while Kano is asking for 2.5 billion dollars. The federal suit come...

Vaginal Bacteria Vary Among Healthy Women

...ts simplicity, he said. A healthy vagina maintains itself and is able to self-correct when minor imbalances occur. When conditions in the vagina change the pH balance dramatically, harmful bacteria can invade and cause infections. When the pH is imbalanced, a condition known as bacterial vaginosis can de...

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