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Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly

...n Florida recently - one that killed a 14-year-old girl - shark attacks remain very rare when you put it all into perspective, McEachran believes. "There are millions of people in the water at any given moment of the day," he notes. "When you consider all of the people in the water at the same time, the...

New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden

...n Florida recently - one that killed a 14-year-old girl - shark attacks remain very rare when you put it all into perspective, McEachran believes. "There are millions of people in the water at any given moment of the day," he notes. "When you consider all of the people in the water at the same time, the...

Agilent Technologies introduces advanced zebrafish, mouse microarrays for stem cell and developmental biology research

...n Florida recently - one that killed a 14-year-old girl - shark attacks remain very rare when you put it all into perspective, McEachran believes. "There are millions of people in the water at any given moment of the day," he notes. "When you consider all of the people in the water at the same time, the...

Fighting like a girl or boy determined by gene in fruit flies

Fighting like a girl or fighting like a boy is hardwired into fruit fly neurons, according to a study in the Nov. 19 Nature Neuroscience advance online publication by a research team from Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna. The resu...

Leading reason for corneal transplants comes into focus

... ago described a Virginia family with a 3-year-old girl with the disease. Gottsch contacted the original investigator and was able to reexamine the family. He was then able to determine the gene that afflicted this family and that it resulted in a unique and severe form of FCD. "I knew Fuchs was not o...

20-year study shows significant rise in childhood obesity, especially among girls

.... For example, in 2002 the average ten-year-old girl was 2.1 per cent taller and 13.4 per cent heavier than her 1982 counterpart, with a 13.3 per cent increase in BMI. Boys were, on average, 1.1 per cent taller and 7.6 per cent heavier, with a 5.1 per cent increase in BMI. 540 children were studie...

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