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Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model

Flowers are innately beautiful to the human eye, but how does a sunflower achieve its stunning disc of intersecting spirals or a daisy its delicate symmetry? That was the question tackled by University of Calgary computer scientists, who have answered one of biology's enduring questions with an animated model that provides the most detailed simulation of how plants grow into recognizable s...

Rewind, please: Nature paper shows that cell division is reversible

Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph.D., a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division. "No one has gotten the cell cycle to go...

Tastes great! Study shows brain's response to pleasing -- and changing -- tastes

We all have tastes we love, and tastes we hate. And yet, our "taste" for certain flavors and foods can change over time, as we get older or we get tired of eating the same old thing. And although the study...

Pleasure and pain: Study shows brain's 'pleasure chemical' is involved in response to pain too

For years, the brain chemical dopamine has been thought of as the brain's "pleasure chemical," sending signals between brain cells in a way that rewards a person or animal for one activity or another. More recently, research has shown that certain drugs like cocaine and heroin amplify this effect ?an action that may lie at the heart of drug addiction. Now, a new study from the University...
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Rockwell software thieves plead guilty

The men were prosecuted for illegally copying the software and selling it on the Internet auction site <a...

Google Maps makes navigation a pleasure

Now Google is expanding into maps. is a recent offering that blends Google's intuitive se...

We are American No sex, please

Suddenly, French Connection of UK went soft and packed up their most cherished and notorious brand...
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Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

The January first issue of the Journal of clinical oncology has come out with a damning indictment of smoking. It says smokers have a three-fold chance of developing skin cancer than people who have not smoked before. The report is based on a study conducted by Dr. Jan N. Bouwes Bavinck from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and colleagues. The authors found a significa...

Government To Consider Ragging Victim's Plea

The Kerala Government will soon take a decide whether the nursing student who was the alleged victim of sexual ragging by her seniors at the School of Medical Education in Kottayam be granted admission in Thiruvananthapuram Medical College.// The next state cabinet meeting on November 30 will also discuss a request for providing financial assistance to the student for completing her a...

Unpleasant Memory of Food could Be Used to Treat Obesity

False memories of unpleasant experiences with unhealthy foods could be used to treat// obesity, says a study. Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, and her colleagues convinced volunteers that they had been sick after eating strawberry ice cream as a child. She and her colleagues gave 228 undergraduate students questionnaires about food. The volunteers s...

Pause as you please

A new tablet has been experimented that can suppress menstruation for as long as a woman wants should be available within a few years.The tablet, which blocks the action of the hormone progesterone, appears to be a safe and reversible way of stopping the monthly menstrual cycle. Two versions of the new pill have just passed their first test in animals, with the results published by Americ...

Musical Instruments Pleasing To The Ear But Rough On The Skin

People who play instruments are at an increased risk of developing a variety of skin conditions such as allergic reactions and eczema.// The good news is many of these problems can be averted by correcting your technique or by making slight alterations to the instrument. Researchers found the most common skin disorders reported by musicians are allergic reactions to specific components o...

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President Bush Ignores America's Plea for Support of Stem Cell Research

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thefollowing statement may be attributed to Sean Tipton, president,Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR): "In the face of spiraling health care costs, President Bush onceagain used the stroke of his veto pen deliberately to hamper theprogress of scientific and medical research, as well as endangerthe future hea...
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