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Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...r's Beijing Olympics, when the partial car ban and other measures will be employed to ensure athletes do not experience the pollution that the city's residents normally live through....

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...ssoglou. A similar mechanism could be at work in other neurological diseases that result in paralysis, such as multiple sclerosis or hemorrhagic stroke, where blood vessels break and bleed into the brain. She added that such a therapeutic approach wouldnt interfere with fibrinogens essential role in coag...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...ness club for teens and being a peer counselor for other kids facing chronic, life-altering illnesses. Th...fects can include upper respiratory infections and other potentially serious reactions. The Al and Heidi Azus Foundations Pediatric Infusion Center opened i...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...er-Tropsch method of converting coal to diesel and other products, such as paraffin and chemicals for making plastics. "Weve been doing Fischer-Tropsch research for 15 years. In the last five years, interest in general has picked up," particularly by private companies," says Davis, the centers associate ...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...Marvels Invent Now Challenge, beating thousands of other entries to claim a $5,000 award. The X-Finger, which currently costs thousands of dollars per digit, might seem expensive to prospective buyers. But it's not a get-rich-quick scheme for its inventor: Didrick, 37, sold his house, his Porsche and man...

Chickens also Use Earth's Magnetic Field to Sense Direction

...ssfully demonstrated that domestic fowl, like many other animals and birds, also use the Earth's magnetic field to sense direction . As part of their experiment, the team of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko placed newly hatched chicks in an artificial magnetic field, teaching them by i...

The Hospital Superbugs

...tem which can target specific genes in C. diff and other clostridial species. For the very first time sc...way of identifying and deactivating the toxins and other factors that cause the disease and can begin the search for new therapies to prevent or cure it. ...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

...t can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other ailments. "That's where there's a big push for whole grains and fiber," he said. "There's interest in making healthier foods." Funded by a one-year, 30,000 dollars grant from the Kansas Wheat Commission, Alavi and researchers created flour enri...

Women are the Real Bosses at Home

...ercent), with the final three percent representing other nationalities. Each spouse was asked to separately...e period of time, and asked them to talk about the other topic," Vogel said. The researchers reviewed and coded the videotapes of couples' interactions usi...

Now, Dads to Get Text Alerts on How to Raise Their Children

...llying to academic performance or seek advice from other parents on social networking sites. The scheme ...he newly launched schemes are aimed at fathers and other groups who "may struggle to find the help they need". These include the parents of disabled children...

A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life

...ractures to her body, including shattered ribs and other injuries to her face and neck, court heard. But no cause of death was ever determined. Even after seeing that Ross was unconscious and bleeding profusely, Sylvester did nothing to help her. "He simply left her on the ground to die," Minden said...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...nced hydrogen fuel cell cars in the world. Honda's other models of fuel cell cars are the V-1, which uses a...n the environment, preferring instead to bond with other elements such as oxygen to form water and carbon to form hydrocarbons such as oil and gas. To create...

An Offbeat Suit With Electronic Monitor

... garments in the future may be used for a range of other monitoring services such as at home outpatient car...said. The smart wardrobe can also be adapted for other uses including the self diagnosis of faulty monitoring equipment; scheduling cleaning and dry-cleani...

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

... coronary artery disease, Gould said, and he hopes other cardiologists and their patients will insist that scanner manufacturers resolve problems with the software to produce the most accurate results. For patients who have recently had a PET-CT and been diagnosed with coronary artery disease, Gould reco...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

... diagnosed with the disorder at 14 months, and the other half were diagnosed after 14 months. Through repea...ith others: Children with ASD infrequently monitor other peoples focus of attention. Therefore, a child with ASD will miss cues that are important for shared...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

...ing with another entity with greater financial and other resources than we have, we believe that we can significantly reduce the amount of time until we can commercialize our proposed biosensor and begin to generate revenues from our biosensor product. This will also allow us to conserve our resources and ...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...utamine and asparagine-rich yeast prion that helps other yeast prions to form also helped this one to form," Liebman said, showing that prions of one type can interact with a dissimilar type. Liebman said the finding suggests the possibility that yeast itself may contain non-glutamine and asparagine-rich...

Role of MicroRNA in Cancer Suppression Identified

...to increased cancer cell death as well as promoted other important anti-proliferative activities. The ability of miR-34a to promote apoptosis of cancer cells makes it an attractive candidate tumor suppressor. The data presented in Molecular Cell is also supported by recent studies (Gaur et at., 2007, Welch...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...r testing of functional foods available in pill or other forms. Original food offered the best and cheapest way to source the functional ingredients, Dr Savage said. There was evidence foods such as oats, soy, flaxseed, tomatoes, garlic, cabbage-like vegetables, citrus fruits, cranberry, tea and red wi...

Nanospectrometer Aids in Identifying Nutrient Cycle

...s fixed in heterocysts and then transported to the other cells, where it is needed as a nutrient. Capone and Nealson also were able to observe cellular differentiation: as the single-stranded organism grows, the nitrogen concentration in the cell halfway between two existing heterocysts falls below a thr...

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