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Remnants of above-ground nuclear testing provide a way to determine age at time of death The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s is providing forensic scientists with a more precise way to determine a person's age at the time of death. The method could help in the identification of victims of Hurricane Katrina and other large-scale disast...New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress
Safety in transfusion medicine is an ongoing challenge to blood services worldwide as new threats, such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), emerge. An update on the latest measures to protect the public from the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called Mad Cow Disease, and minimize risk of transmission through blood transfusion was presented here at the Inter...'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes
Doctors and scientists nationwide will today for the first time be able to join together over the internet to start the search for genes that underlie a range of chronic diseases. Patients across Britain with cancer, heart and other common diseases have been providing blood samples for research since 2000. They are part of a project hosted by The University of Manchester that will allow m...'Fruit fly dating game' provides clues to our reproductive prowess
There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period. The Chicxulub impact may, in fact, have been the lesser and earlier of a series of meteors and volca...BarCamp talk turns to Internet dating
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According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, the present risk of prognosis methods in heart disease need to take account of more factors if they are to be useful in assessing a patient's future health.// When someone has a heart attack or is at risk of having one what they want to know most of all is what the future might hold. Doctors can use the prediction tools and use to counsel them. <br...Freshness Dating? Researchers Express Doubts
A new method to inform people of the expiry of perishable food items is to depict freshness dating. However experts feel this move is risky. // Freshness dating could backfire in big way, according to a forthcoming article in this month's Journal of Food Science. Joint research by Cornell University and the U.S. Army Research Labs in Natick, MA have shown that as a food approaches it...Sponsor to Pull Measure Mandating HPV Vaccine
A bill that would have required middle school girls in Maryland to be vaccinated against the virus that can cause cervical cancer is being shelved by its lead sponsor//. Sen. Delores G. Kelley (D-Baltimore County) said yesterday that she plans today to withdraw legislation that would have mandated that young girls be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitt...Texas Passes Bill To Halt Order Mandating HPV Vaccine for School Girls
The Texas House on Wednesday voted 135-2 to pass (HB 1098) a Senate-approved bill that would prevent mandatory vaccination for middle school girls in the state until 2011, the New York Times reports.// Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Feb. 2 issued an executive order that mandates that all girls entering the sixth grade beginning in September 2008 receive an HPV vaccine. Perry has said the exec...Crystalens™ Accommodating Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens
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PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2007 - CytogenCorporation (NASDAQ: CYTO) today reported the publication of areview validating the utility of its ProChart(TM) database to helpdefine the function of the WW domain-containing oxidoreductase(WWOX), an important tumor suppressor gene with known involvementin breast, prostate, lung, pancreatic, esophageal, and gastriccancers. The peer-re...