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Virus Claims Harry Potter is Dead!

... as Hairy-A - works by infecting USB memory drives plugged into computers where users have unwittingly downloaded the worm. This allows it to hop between different computers each time the device is inserted. Its other effects are creating a host of new users on the PC using character names from the books l...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

... they inflict on their carriers. The researchers plugged these factors into a computer formula that identified the gene mutations most likely to be linked with cancer. Karchin was pleased that the system was highly successful at finding harmful mutations during the blind tests in Monteiro’s lab. She believ...

Phone-Based Care Program Reduces Risk of Death in Older Adults

...ealth care when needed. Older adults are much more plugged into the health care system, rather than having knowledge of community-based services,” Alkema said. Many participants spontaneously said that “they never knew these services existed,” Alkema said. “This idea of having a professional to bridge thos...

Dance Your Way to a Better Body

...at the gym. “Those working out in gyms are often plugged into their iPods or their reading material, following their own regimen. Those dancing, however, are often moving in unison, possibly facing one another or touching, and having a communal experience. Connection and cooperation with others is integral...

BJP Seeks Tougher Laws Against Pre-Natal Sex Tests

...ed that loopholes in abortion-related laws be also plugged in order to check their misuse for killing unborn female children. "It's appalling to see a high incidence of female foeticide in a country where goddesses are worshipped. Such an act is the greatest of all sins," he told his party's Mahila Morcha r...

SARS (Bird Flu) spreading in the Asian continent

...ebruary 1st in California when a jet bound for S.F plugged into the sea. Soon after a whole string of disasters followed. Droughts hitting India, the Gujarat ’s 7. 9 Richter scale earthquake, a second in Peru, the Nine eleven disaster, the tanker spill in Spain and on March 13th 2003 the first alert over S...

New Drug, Pleconaril speeds recovery from common cold

...er remedies, which ease cold symptoms by drying up plugged noses and soothing aches, pleconaril attacks a large group of viruses known as the picornaviruses. Among these is the rhinovirus, the bug that causes about half of all colds.// Since the medicine doesn't make the sniffles disappear immediately, it ...

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