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'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers

...end sunglasses already let athletes adjust to such changing conditions by swapping out lenses. But the new shades, which take from one to two seconds to transition, allow a much quicker switch. Current lens choices don't simply include different levels of shading, but also different colors, such as yellow...

An Orange a Day may Keep Heart Disease Away

...mption can have an effect on cholesterol levels by changing the way the liver functions - so much so that doctors warn patients who are prescribed statins not to eat grapefruit because it can increase the effect of the drugs. Source-IANS...

'School Sermons' Need a Comeback

...nships and raising a teenager’s self-confidence by changing the very ethos(institutional culture) of a school will do the trick, say the researchers. In this context, they claim superiority of aged principles to newer ones such as focusing on sexual risks ,and attitude to drugs. The researchers were from...

Key Science Web Sites Buried in Information Avalanche

...et Institute have investigated how the Internet is changing the way in which people seek out sources of scient...f the importance of academic articles, but this is changing with increasing uses of the Internet and Web. The study focuses on how academic researchers in par...

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Spread of Respiratory Infections in Hospitals

... providing staff with hand-washing, showering, and changing facilities. The use of oxygen therapy, including both the use of high flow rate oxygen masks and bi-level positive airway pressure ventilation, increased the risk of the spread of SARS. The authors hypothesize that these treatments may propel infec...

PET Imaging Identifies Aggressive Kidney Cancers That Require Surgery

...city of 100 percent. “Antibody PET could end up changing the standard of care for patients with kidney cancer,” said the study’s senior author, Paul Russo, MD, a urologic cancer surgeon at MSKCC. “The excellent sensitivity and specificity of this tool supports the utility of G250 PET imaging in the work-up...

Major Gene Study Uncovers Secrets of Leukemia

... pathway are predicted to prevent progenitors from changing into normally functioning lymphocytes. Normally, the body eliminates differentiated B lymphocytes that have failed to assemble the right genes to make effective antibodies against the specific target they are supposed to attack. However, if these def...

Researchers Urge Regulators to Rethink Strategies for Soot Emission

...seous pollutants are emitted from cars and trucks, changing the chemical and physical properties of the soot particles and creating new particulate matter. These new particles are potentially more toxic and may have a stronger influence on cloud formation that can alter the global climate. "One of our key ...

DVT Treatment Vacuums Away Blood Clots – Prevents Disabilit

...uld become the new standard technique, potentially changing the way all DVT patients are treated,” says Mark J. Garcia, M.D., interventional radiologist at Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE. This treatment worked on the largest, most difficult clots, allowing resolution of DVT quickly and safel...

Schools Help Hold the Line Against Childhood Obesity

...rings at the end of the school day. And that means changing the out-of-school environment or the way that families respond to it,” von Hippel said. ource-Newswise SRM...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...et ever since its introduction has been constantly changing the way we as a society function. It has not only successfully// brought communities together. It has also allowed them to share ideas and provide a platform for growth in business. However, with this positive angle there is another side of the story...

Natural Milk Protein Could Lead to Super Nutritious Foods

... Dr. Livney. “This could improve our diets without changing our eating habits.” He adds that they also plan to develop the technology to enable mass-production of such micelles. Dr. Dganit Danino and Dr. Ellina Kesselman of the Technion Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering also took part in the res...

Access to Pornography Among Teenagers on the Rise

...and author of the study. “We don’t know how we are changing sexual behaviours, attitudes, values and beliefs by enabling this kind of exposure and not talking with kids about it in any meaningful way,” Thompson said. Thompson, formerly a sex education teacher, is concerned about the health and social messag...

Epigenetics to Shape Stem Cell Future

...s can be transformed into other cell types without changing their DNA. It is simply a question of adding or removing the chemical tags involved. Stem cells rely heavily on epigenetic signals. As a stem cell develops, chemical tags on the DNA or its surrounding histone proteins switch genes on or off, contr...

Over 50s Most Concerned About Global Warming

...eve they are already experiencing the effects of a changing climate. The over 50s are motivated to take action but are frustrated. The majority of the over 50s (80 per cent) feel that they should personally take action to combat climate change. However, many feel frustrated (69 per cent) with the barriers t...

Now Fight Iron Disorders With a Drug Against Hypertension

... exerts its effect on iron transport indirectly by changing Ca2+ levels in the cell or by binding directly to DMT-1 in liver and kidney still needs to be determined. "Understanding the exact molecular mechanism underlying nifedipine's effect on iron transport would be a big step towards developing it into ...

New Drug Therapy for Breast Cancer Offers Hope

...Cancer Research Institute, UK, and team, stood for changing treatments tracks to exemestane after 2 or 3 years of tamoxifen. This so, as it reduced deaths by 17 percent. Their findings stem from a study of 4,742 women who were treated for a total of five years and monitored for another three. The subject...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

...sphate molecule is introduced to another molecule, changing the latter, and preparing it for a chemical reaction. They have found a site for phosphorylation and are looking at this possibility further. A leading expert in transporters, Professor Dale Sanders, head of the biology department at the Universit...

Cleft Palate in Fetal Mice Prevented by Treating

...his work. "This is a great example of expectations changing as technology evolves," he said. For this study, co-author and postdoctoral scholar Karen Liu, PhD, used a short amino-acid tag to disrupt the function of a protein called GSK-3 beta. GSK-3 beta function is important in a variety of biological proc...

Action Video Games Improves Vision

...earlier. "When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing," says Bavelier. "These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life." The improvement...

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