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Shift of weather patterns necessitates rethinking of reforestation methods

Forest landowners can greatly increase the survival rate of pine tree seedlings by changing when and how they plant, according to research conducted here. "Some landowners have had to replant two, three or even four years in a row beca...

Deep thinking: Scientists sequence a cold-loving marine microbe

At home in the deep, dark Arctic Ocean, the marine bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H keeps very cool--typically below 5° degrees Celsius. How does the bacterium function in this frigid environment? To find out, scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and collaborators have sequenced and analyzed C. psychrerythraea's genome. That genome analysis, posted in the Proceedi...

Thinking the pain away? Study shows the brain's painkillers may cause 'placebo effect'

Sham painkiller prompts brain to release endorphins, bringing real relief to those in pain The study provides the first direct evidence that the brain's own pain-fighting chemicals, called endo...

New research puts a fresh spin on current thinking of speech evolution in humans

A study, published today in the prestigious journal Nature by Dr. Michael Petrides and colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) at McGill University, challenges current thinking that speech developed as a result of new structures that evolved in the human brain. Dr. Petrides and colleagues have identified a distinct brain region that controls jaw movements in macaque monkeys that i...

Lateral thinking produces first map of gene transmission

A University of Queensland study mapping the evolution of genes has shed light on the role of gene transfer in bacterial diseases. Dr Robert Beiko, Professor Mark Ragan and Mr Timothy Harlow examined the genomes of 144...

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The Earth, a very minute dot in the cosmic solar system, like its brothers and sisters is made up of atoms, which when join together create molecular structures. //Over the centuries, scientist have come to a common understanding that these molecule structures, though immensely complex in nature have one basic principle that keeps them together, their negative and positive components or charge....

Thinking Could Be Affected Due To Hormone Therapy

Men who receive hormone therapy after treatment for prostate cancer may experience temporary problems remembering visual figures and recalling numbers as quickly as they once did //, according to a new study however other key mental functions, such as verbal skills, naming, visual-motor skills, and skills requiring working memory or sustained attention, were not affected by the treatment....

Zinc increases thinking power of children

Researchers of a study on dietary minerals and their effects on children have found out that adding zinc to// the diets of children may help them in increasing their capability of remembering. Study was carried on the diets of Chinese children of age between 6 to 9 years where one group received a supplement of 20mg of zinc alone and the other group was given 20 mg of zinc plus micronu...

Inventive thinking in health promotion

In an ingenious method developed by China health info would be available on poker cards. Those playing cards would have information regarding bird flu prevention and control knowledge.// These have emerged on market in north China's Shanxi Province. The contents of the cards would be like knowledge such as what bird flu is, harm of the epidemic, its transmission channel, preven...

Mild Sadness Provokes Depressive Thinking in Some Recovered Patients

Some individuals with a history of depression may sink back into thinking patterns associated with the condition when faced with mild stresses or sadness//, increasing their risk for relapse. Many patients who recover from depression eventually relapse, according to background information in the article. Management of depression usually focuses on alleviating symptoms rather than redu...

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From Clinical Cancer Research: Rethinking Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007-- Ongoing therapeutic cancer vaccinetrials have yet to show evidence of vaccines spurring apatient’s immune system to shrink tumors -- yet patients whoreceive these vaccines in trials tend to live longer and respondbetter to subsequent treatment. In the July 1 issue of ClinicalCancer Research, a journal of the American Association for CancerResearch, a te...

FDA Proposes New Warnings About Suicidal Thinking, Behavior in Young Adults Who Take Antidepressant Medications

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 2, 2007-The U.S. Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) today proposed that makers of allantidepressant medications update the existing black box warning ontheir products' labeling to include warnings about increased risksof suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality, in youngadults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment (generally the firstone to two months).</p...