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Trotting with emus to walk with dinosaurs

...nosaurs. But not all of those alive today are good choices or easy to work with. Ostriches are two-toed and have an attitude problem, so that ruled them out, says Breithaupt. Rheas have three toes, but are "like working with a bunch of kindergarteners on too much sugar," he said. That left emus, which ar...

MIT creates 3-D scaffold for growing stem cells

...gene expression and growing patterns. But the only choices have been glass labware and a product called Matrigel, a gelatinous protein mixture secreted by mouse tumor cells. While Matrigel does resemble a complex extracellular environment, it also contains growth factors and unknown proteins that limit its d...

Successful lung cancer surgery not enough to break nicotine dependence in many smokers

...essor of Medicine at Washington University. "Their choices are driven by insidious cravings for nicotine." The investigators found that those smokers who were the last to give up their cigarettes - some on the same day as their operation - and who saw smoking as a pleasurable activity they would have diff...

Report calls for improved monoclonal antibodies against solid tumors

...e framework they offer “should facilitate critical choices among antibody constructs in clinical practice, clinical research, and preclinical research.?...

What does the public really know about HPV?

...er to make appropriate, evidence-based health care choices among existing prevention strategies, including the Pap test, HPV DNA test, and HPV vaccine, researchers concluded. "Individuals are constantly being presented with new health care research that updates previous knowledge, might conflict with pr...

New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing

...ich neurogenesis had been halted made more correct choices and found the food faster. "In our world, we are constantly bombarded by new information so we are constantly filtering –and if we did not do this, we would be overwhelmed," said Dr. Malleret. "Our research indicates that those with better workin...

Living with water scarcity -- world must act now

... live with it. This will require making some hard choices now instead of deferring them until later," says M...ed. This will require that we deal with difficult choices and tradeoffs. Reconciling competing demands on water requires informed negotiations by the many st...

New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers

...re the speed of change, the overwhelming number of choices in the seed market and the desire for novelty ?all of which lead to lack of proper seed testing by farmers. "There is a rapidity of change that the farmers just can't keep up with," Stone says. "They aren't able to digest new technologies as they c...

Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells

... of newly HIV-infected infants so that appropriate choices can be made when considering possible treatments, especially since PIs are not used worldwide as first-line therapy. Such testing must be paired with further studies on available and new therapies. As Persaud remarked, "It is important to fully und...

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