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Invisible Gases Form Most Organic Haze in Urban, Rural Areas: Study

...at sources that spew soot and other tiny particles directly into the air were the primary culprit in the forma...as. Zhang and Jimenez compared concentrations of directly emitted, or primary, aerosols with chemically formed, or secondary aerosols. They surveyed urban are...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

...ops, such as potatoes, carrots, and radishes, that directly come in contact with soil may be particularly vulnerable to antibiotic contamination. The ability of plants to absorb antibiotics raises the potential for contamination of human food supply. However, Satish Gupta, group leader notes The adverse im...

New Data Reinforces Correlation Between Carbohydrate Quality and Loss of Vision

...quality of carbohydrates that a person eats may be directly correlated to Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and its related loss of vision. This is according to a new study by Allen Taylor, PhD, director of the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research...

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

It had been thought previously that stem cells are directly influenced by cells in the local environment or niche , but the situation may be more complex. Human embryonic stem cells are perpetual machines that generate fuel for life. In this weeks Nature, researchers of the McMaster Cancer and Stem Cell Res...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...end their domestic waste into storm drains that go directly to the river. The pipes that do lead to the plants are falling apart -- a third are in urgent need of repair -- so sewage gets blocked on its way and has to be pumped out, also ending up in the drains. The head of the Delhi Jal (Water) Board, whi...

Extrovert People Drink More Alcohol

...n is not yet an issue but excessive alcohol use is directly related to, for example, aggression, vandalism and traffic accidents. Hence, it is important to gain a better understanding of the processes that determine how much alcohol a person consumes in the presence of peers. Father as role modelThe researc...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

...s gets into the country, the effect that it has is directly proportional to the amount of time it takes us to find it, Thacker warns. These observations were heard at the AVMA meet for the launch of a new project One Health. Its goal is to integrate human and animal medicine in education, public health ag...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

... attempted hasty exit from Australia on July 2 was directly linked to the arrest of his cousin Kafeel Ahmed, who suffered 90 per cent burns after the failed Glasgow airport attack on June 30. Computer records obtained by authorities reveal Haneef's close links to both Kafeel and his brother Sabeel continued...

Reason Behind Trouble Remembering in ADHD Kids Revealed

...e helpful in the development of new therapies that directly target these problem areas. "There's scope there now to try to train these children to recognise new information or remember things differently to help overcome these learning disabilities," Keage said....

Boffins Find Evidence for Novel Brain Cell Communication

...ions. Gap junctions allow electric current to flow directly from one cell to another, without involving the release and diffusion of transmitter chemicals, and may be thought of as short circuits linking or cutting across the pathways through which cells normally communicate. Gap junctions are found in many...

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

...quences of drink-driving until the message relates directly to them, says a report . The UK Department of Transport says that advertisements about the dreadful consequences of drink-driving can influence young men not to sit behind the wheel while inebriated, only if such public announcements show that a m...

Glaucoma can Be Cured by Oven Cleaner!

...eria might make a good vessel for delivering drugs directly into the eye," says Seal. Glaucoma involves an irregular accumulation of fluid inside the eye. Existing eye-drop treatments contain chemicals that don't attach to transport proteins very successfully, so only a small amount gets through the cornea....

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

... was 0.74, with a 95% confidence interval compared directly to those who had never breast fed. The data was taken from a community-based health study incorporating information from the Swedish National Hospital Discharge and the National Cause of Death Register between 1991 and 1996, comparing health infor...

Children Born After PGD as Healthy as Kids Born After ART

...plasmic sperm injection (where a sperm is injected directly into an egg) is performed, followed by genetic testing of the embryos. Only unaffected embryos are subsequently transferred to the womb. "Because embryos are biopsied in PGD procedures, and this constitutes an additional manipulation of a delicate ...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

...tion (ICSI), which involves passing a single sperm directly into an egg. Research has found that ICSI babies have three times the rate of birth defects of naturally conceived infants. This question of second-generation infertility is an area of particular interest, and given the relative infancy of the scie...

New Genetic Studies Carried Out in Cancer Therapy

... Institute and colleagues used RNA interference to directly examine the contribution of over 800 candidate proteins to the sensitivity or resistance of cancer cells to several drugs that are commonly used to treat cancer. Using this technique, the researchers found that resistance to the chemotherapeutic ag...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...r. Turn if off and unplug it first, and try not to directly touch any sensitive electrical components within. Finally, consider turning your PC off when you're not using it during particularly hot spells. If you need to keep the PC itself running, look for other heat-generating electronic components that ca...

Interoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients

...y machine, a single, concentrated dose is inserted directly into the affected area inside the breast during surgery. Dr. McCready says the one-time dose is biologically equivalent to conventional radiation treatments for breast cancer that typically require, on average, a minimum of 16 treatments over three w...

US Concerned About Mental Health of Diplomats in Iraq, Afghanistan

...Service personnel. "Yet in Iraq, they are often directly exposed to conditions of war which they may not always be well-adapted to cope," said Kashkett, who also testified before the House panel. Diplomats assigned to the US embassy in Baghdad "experience frequent incoming fire in the Green Zone and sleep ...

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

... "This new microtubule subset that we discovered directly connects the Golgi to the cell front, so it would be very logical if these microtubules act as ‘tracks' for this delivery," she said. In addition to identifying this novel site of microtubule nucleation, Kaverina and colleagues also examined the mo...

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