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New research says winning a Nobel Prize adds nearly 2 years to your lifespan

...ze (who lived on average for 75.8 years). When the survey was restricted to only comparing winners and nomin...ad any effect as a number of the scientists in the survey had been nominated for the award several times. They found that the number had no effect- actually w...

Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number

...e human impacts on the gorillas. During that time, survey teams set out with the intention of counting every...ered in the same area of the park, which presented survey teams with the risk of double-counting the same individuals or groups. DNA analysis, however, allowe...

1/3 of sexually active older adults with HIV/AIDs has unprotected sex

...rding to a study by Ohio University researchers. A survey of 260 HIV-positive older adults found that of tho... The behavioral information was pulled from a survey of 260 HIV-positive older adults who were participating in a study examining support groups. The stu...

Study finds mercury prevalent in many western fish

A new survey by researchers at Oregon State University and the ...mink, otter and related animals. Nevertheless, the survey found that 93 percent of the streams and rivers with large piscivores exceeded that level of mercury...

Many couples choose to donate surplus embryos for stem cell research

...vinced that if this type of personal interview and survey were carried out in the U.S.A., at least 50% of the couples would be willing to donate their spare embryos for stem cell research," said Pablo Menendez, director of the Spanish Stem Cell Bank in Granada, Spain. The new findings "contrast sharply" ...

'The eyes have it' -- Autism research yields surprising results

... to the National Autistic Society. A mental health survey by the Office for National Statistics found the prevalence of children and young people anywhere on the autistic spectrum is 0.9 per cent ?almost one in every 100. ...

Light wine intake is associated with longer life expectancy in men

...ands, were followed until death or until the final survey taken among survivors in mid-2000. The surveys included drinking habits, dietary habits, body mass index, smoking habits and the prevalence of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer. The statistics on alcohol consumption were adjusted to account...

Chronic pain up almost 40 percent among US workers in past decade

...ese data, released today, are from a 2006 national survey conducted by Harris Interactive® on "Pain in the W...ship with the National Pain Foundation (NPF). The survey was an update to the 1996 Louis Harris & Associates poll on the subject, sponsored by Ortho-McNe...

Free drug samples influence prescribing, say one in three doctors

...e prescribing, finds a small but representative US survey published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. But they also think that other doctors are more likely to be influenced by incentives than they are, the data show. In March 2003, the research team surveyed 397 members of the American College of Obste...

Evolution of influenza A virus

...e influenza virus determines scientists?ability to survey and control the virus. In a new study, published online in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, Dr. Eddie C. Holmes of the Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, the Wordsworth C...

Cracking the egg

... embryo. The researchers performed a large-scale survey of thousands of fragments of mouse egg cDNA. The cDNA fragments are reverse coded from messenger RNA and therefore indicate which genes are being expressed. They identified 5,400 active genes in the fully grown egg, about a tenth of which are unique ...

Selecting life: Scientists find new way to search for origin of life

...ork. It sets out a first-of-its-kind comprehensive survey into research that has identified processes by which minerals may have prompted the transition from a geochemical world to a biological one almost four billion years ago. Scientists understand several probable steps in the origin of life, notably...

Environmental toxins may cause body's defenses to worsen lung disease

...nd fighting off infection in the body, continually survey the epithelial cells lining the lungs to identify ...tissue, Borchers explains, it simply continues its survey for problems. But if the cell receives a signal that the tissue is infected, it will automatically d...

What does the public really know about HPV?

...c's health communication practices and needs. The survey is jointly funded by the National Cancer Institute...ed sexual promiscuity among those vaccinated. The survey was then given to gauge intentions toward vaccination. It was completed by 635 adults, 49 percent o...

First Biodiversity Census of coral reef ecosystems in the NW Hawaiian Islands

...Dan Polhemus, summarized the need for this type of survey in saying "we cannot properly manage what we don't know we have." Don Palawski, Refuge Manager for the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) stated that the biodiversity surveys bein...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...gued that no action should be taken until a second survey for a new abundance estimate shows definitively th...gered species. According to one analysis, a single survey in 2006 or 2007 would have a probability of only 11% of detecting a 3%/year decline and a 16% probab...

Pattern of human Ebola outbreaks linked to wildlife and climate

...reports of animal illness and deaths from wildlife survey teams, villagers, hunters, fishers, loggers, miners, Ebola survivors and families of victims from across Gabon and into northwestern RoC. Despite the low probability of finding dead animals in the humid forests that cover most of the region, due...

'Tribbles' protein implicated in common and aggressive form of leukemia

...in a large database of human cancer patients. In a survey of gene expression in AML patients, high Tribbles expression was found in a subset of patients who had been previously characterized by defects in C/EBPá. According to Keeshan, "C/EBPa defects have also been identified in lung cancer and other tu...

Plague proteome reveals proteins linked to infection

...lea and in mammalian systems. The proteome is a survey of proteins in a cell. Lipton, Hixson and colleagues at the PNNL-based Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used proteomic techniques called accurate mass and time tag mass spectrometry and clustering...

High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war

... An international team of researchers conducted a survey in May 2005 in Mankien—a district of Sudan with a ...ies in other parts of rural Africa. In a second survey in the same district, the researchers looked specifically for cases of trachoma, both in its early s...

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