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World shark attacks dipped in 2005, part of long-term trend

...parents and grandparents went into the water, they maybe wiggled their toes, or if they were very daring, jumped in and swam. People of our generation are surfing, diving, sail boarding, scuba diving, skin diving and engaging in all kinds of activities." Of this year's four fatalities, two were in Austral...

Sex chromosome genes influence aggression andmaternal behavior, say UVa researchers

...sterone, for male behavior such as aggression. But maybe it's in our genes, too. Indeed such social behavior also has a genetic basis, according to new research on mice by neuroscientists at the University of Virginia Health System. "The differences in sex chromosomes, XX versus XY, are also responsible ...

Common molecular 'signature' identified in solid tumors

...ost and block those that are overly abundant, then maybe we can prevent some of the very earliest changes that happen in the development of cancer. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done, but I am convinced that this field will give us more precise and less toxic ways of dealing with cancer tha...

Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names

Was that Xanex or Xanax? Or maybe Zantac? If you're a health care professional you'd better know the difference--mistakes can be fatal. An estimated 1.3 million people in the United States alone are injured each year from medication errors, and the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (...

Better beetle sought for salt cedar control

...do is release all of these strains at each siteand maybe then be able to make some decisions that are backed up byresearch." Ultimately, the study should help determine which strains are adaptedto which latitude, he said. The Crete strain was released from Wyoming toSouth Texas and did not work everywhere...

Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad

...hours when we saw our first carcass. It was fresh, maybe just a few weeks old, not far from the park headquarters, and the animal's face had been chopped off, the tusks removed. "Two days later we were flying west of that area when we saw a poachers' camp. The second time we passed over I saw a guy and a...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

... getting any better," she said. "So I decided that maybe it's time to look and see if these lifestyle measures really work." In a May issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, Gerson and two other physicians at the School of Medicine - Tonya Kaltenbach, MD, and Seth Crockett, MD - published the results of a...

Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system

...to diseases like epilepsy, spinal cord injury, and maybe even Alzheimer's disease. For decades scientists have studied the swift signaling activity of the brain's better-known cells, the neurons, by recording their electrical activity. But astrocytes don't fire in the same way, and conventional techniques...

Triple threat polymer captures and releases

... of nasal inhalation-based delivery of drugs. Or maybe something as simple as a room temperature release of a fragrance.." Sponge analogy Wooley said that they don't know where the guest molecules are residing in the host material, and her group is now inserting stable isotopes into the host and gue...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...span in organisms ranging from worms to flies, and maybe humans. Somehow, JNK and the insulin receptor toge...it's possible to re-set the body's aging clock and maybe make someone live longer." It was Bohmann's questions about cancer-causing genes 20 years ago that ...

Orange, grapefruit juice for breakfast builds bones in rats

...f aging. But if we can maintain our bone strength, maybe we'll be able to prevent it," Patil noted. For the study, 36 males rats were included for two months in the lab of Dr. Farzad Deyhim, professor of human and animal nutrition at Texas A&M- Kingsville. Half of the rats were a control group that co...

Mars mission Risk 29: Scientists research ways to reduce radiation-induced brain damage

...ff. "Once we understand what's not working, then maybe we can fix it," said Britten. Because radiation damage is similar to the free-radical injury resulting from aging and other neurological diseases, the research could lead to better treatments for conditions like Alzheimer's disease that cause progr...

Friendly bacteria in alcoholic milkshake could fight food allergies

...ol in the prevention of allergies. "In the future, maybe we can screen out the certain components (bacterial strains or bioactive peptides) from kefir and utilize them in medicine," he said. Also in this weeks Chemistry & Industry, UK firm Rigest are looking for backers to develop an air sanitizing ...

Stem cells engage in dialogue with the cells that regulate their futures

...at supports them. It is tempting to speculate that maybe multiple potential niches exist for stem cells in our bodies that can be turned on to action when signaling stem cells are in the neighborhood. It may very well be that the power of cancer cells to spread comes from this natural ability of stem cells...

Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink

... the good smells have leached out in the water, so maybe it's just food that's harder for predators to find...hing we destroyed during our lab test processes or maybe a chemical present in a very small amount that we failed to identify. There's uncertainty about this...

New test for most virulent HPV strains under study

... with an HPV test. A lot of experts are suggesting maybe that is the way we should go,?he says. In fact, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology already recommend HPV testing in all women over 30. Women under 30 are another ma...

Birth rate, competition are major players in hominid extinctions

...s are probably happy that they typically have one, maybe two babies at a time, but for early hominids, low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction. "The lineages of primates have some traits that make it hard for them to respond to rapid perturbations in the environment," says Dr....

Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

...ique opportunity to document a process that occurs maybe once a century and promises to provide new insights into coral recovery processes that until now we could only explore on fossil reefs" says Dr Baird. Dr Campbell adds "The news from Simeulue is not all bad. At many sites, the worst affected speci...

Nanotextured implant materials: blending in, not fighting back

...oh, an assistant professor of engineering, thought maybe they could use physical structure to allow the foreign materials to blend in better. "What we're trying to do is fundamentally different," says Webster. "We're trying to find materials that the body accepts, rather than develop drugs or develop mater...

BMI not accurate indicator of body fat

...this: If you're a regular exerciser or an athlete, maybe 28 is overweight for you and 33 is considered obese." BMI, said Pivarnik, is used as a "surrogate" for percent fat, even though body fat doesn't really fit into the equation. "What if you take fat out of the equation?" he said. "Is there someth...

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