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TV Viewing Reduces Young Kids' Sleep: Study

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Television viewing cuts sleep among young children, say researchers. A study following more than 1,800 children from ages 6 months to nearly 8 years found a small but consistent association between increased television viewing and shorter sleep duration. The presence of a television in the room where a child sleeps also was associated with less sleep, particularly in minority children. The study participants, children and their mothers, ...

Lives After Heart Attack can be Saved With a Simple Test in the Ambulance: Study

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A positive link between the survival of heart attack patients and the use of electrocardiogram by ambulance crews, has been identified in a new study from the University of Surrey, published today in the journal iHeart/i. Researchers, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), analysed data from almost half a million adults admitted with a heart attack to hospitals in England and Wales, noting whether patients who came to hospital by ambulance had had an ...

Blood Group Decides Chance of Prostate Cancer Recurrence: Study

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A research conducted at Tokyo Medical University has revealed that the type of blood group of the person plays an important role in the recurrence of prostate cancer. According to the study, men with blood group O have less chance of getting the disease again after surgery. However, men with blood group A face 35 per cent more chance of getting back the disease even after surgery. Study author Dr Yoshio Ohno of Tokyo Medical University said, "This ...

New Delirium Severity Measure of Older Adults Developed by Boston-Area Researchers

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Researchers form Harvard, Brown and UMASS have developed a new method for measuring delirium severity in older adults. The new scoring system, CAM-S, is based on the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) and standardizes the measurement of delirium severity for both clinical and research uses. Details of this study are published in iAnnals of Internal Medicine/i. Delirium is defined as the sudden onset of confusion or change in mental status that is often brought ...

Facts on Epilepsy

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Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder that is associated with repeated seizures. These epilepsy seizures are caused by abnormal brain cell activity

Signs of Delaying the Onset of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea in UK, Shown in Awareness Campaign

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Over 25,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported in 2012, in the UK, making it the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection after chlamydia. Control of gonorrhoea is dependent on successful antibiotic treatment, as the bacterium that causes the infection, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has become increasingly resistance to every antibiotic used to treat it over the last 60 years. Today, at the Society for General Microbiology's Annual Conference in Liverpool, Professor ...

Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis is Better With Chinese Herb Than Drug: Study

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Thunder god vine, a Chinese herb, works better than a widely-prescribed pharmaceutical drug at easing rheumatoid arthritis, a study published on Monday said. The herb has long been used in China to treat this potentially crippling autoimmune disease, which typically strikes hand and foot joints. It is known in Mandarin as lei gong teng and to botanists as Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F. Extracts of the herb have already fired the interest ...

Gay Civil Unions and Adoption Legalized in Malta

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Same-sex civil partnerships and giving gay couples right to adopt was legalized after Malta's parliament passed a law on Monday. The Mediterranean island country's parliament passed the bill by a vote of 37-0. The opposition abstained because it opposes gay adoption but not gay unions, said its leader Simon Busuttil. Thousands of supporters cheered the law's passage on the central square in the capital Valletta. Catholicism is ...

Marital Bliss Affected by Low Blood Sugar: Study

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Low blood sugar affects marital bliss as it makes spouses more prone to anger and aggression, suggests a new study out on Monday. The findings are based on experiments with 107 married couples asked to monitor their glucose levels before breakfast and bed every day for 21 days. In addition, researchers gave them voodoo dolls representing their significant other along with 51 pins. They were then told that, at the end each day over the three-week period, ...

Women at Higher Risk of Alzheimer's Than Men Due to a Gene Variant: Study

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Women are at a greater risk for Alzheimer's disease than men because they are found to carry a copy of a gene variant called ApoE4, reveals a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The scientists arrived at their findings by analyzing data on large numbers of older individuals who were tracked over time and noting whether they had progressed from good health to mild cognitive impairment - from which most move on to develop Alzheimer's ...

Your Food Review also Talks About Your Psychology

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A research at Stanford University has revealed that food reviews do not only talk about food but they also say a lot about the psychology of the person who is reviewing the food. The research was conducted to understand the psychology and the mind of the person who reviewed the food at restaurants. Researchers said a lot of meaning is hidden in the way words and connotations are used during the food review. "Our goal was to examine online reviews not for what ...

Insight into Getting Type 2 Diabetes With Everest Trek

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New insights into the molecular process of how some people get type II diabetes have been found, and this could lead to new ways of preventing people from getting the condition. The research, led by the University of Southampton and UCL, which took place on Mount Everest, assessed the mechanisms by which low oxygen levels in the body - known as hypoxia - are associated with the development of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when cells fail ...

Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheets for Hospitalized Patients for April 15, 2014

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Accurate predicting of important clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with a new tip sheets score is now possible, as published in Annals of Internal Medicine. 1. New delirium severity score helps to predict outcomes for hospitalized patients A new delirium severity score proves accurate for predicting important clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients, according to an article published in iAnnals of Internal Medicine/i. Delirium ...

Useful, Cheaper Alternative to Whole-Genome Sequencing With Gene Panels: Study

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At least one genetic mutation is found in as many as 10 percent of women with a personal or family history of breast or ovarian cancer. With this knowledge, doctors could be prompted to recommend changes in their care, suggest finding of a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The women in the study did not have mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (mutations in these genes are strongly associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer), ...

Norway Hands Over a Classic Film Thought to be Lost, to China

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The National Library of Norway said Monday that a copy of "The Cave of the Silken Web", a classic Chinese film long thought to be lost, will be handed over to China by Norway. The delivery of the silent film from 1927 is expected to arrive in Beijing on Tuesday. Diplomatic relations between both countries have been tense since Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded in 2010 the Nobel Peace Prize, decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. After ...

German's Road Trip in John Paul 'Relic', En Route for Late Pope's Sainthood

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A Polish-made car, 1958 model, that belonged to John Paul II before he became pope, was taken off by a German vintage car enthusiast to honour the pope's canonization. Marek Schramm is an admirer of the late pope and got behind the wheel of the spruced-up FSO Warszawa, sporting a "JP2" license plate, to make the long trip from Berlin to Italy. His itinerary will take in Krakow, the southern Polish city where then Karol Wojtyla was archbishop before his ...

Pulitzer Prize Shared by Washington Post and The Guardian for NSA Coverage

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The Pulitzer Prize was shared by The Guardian and Washington Post for reporting leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, on Monday. The report revealed a global surveillance network monitoring millions of Americans and foreigners. The British and American newspapers won the award for public service journalism handed out by the Pulitzer committee at Columbia University in New York for sparking debate on secretive NSA programs. The ...

Single Cell Genomics Technique to Reverse Engineer Developing Lung Developed

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Scientists have unravelled the complex genetic coding that allows embryonic cells to proliferate and transform into all of the specialized cells that perform a myriad of different biological tasks. A team of interdisciplinary researchers took lung cells from the embryos of mice, choosing samples at different points in the creature's development cycle. Using the new technique of single-cell genomic analysis, they recorded what genes were active in each cell at ...

Clicking Selfies for Perfect Look and Angle? It's Body Dysmorphic Disorder Not Addiction

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These days, in case you find yourself obsessed with clicking lots of selfies, then according to psychologists, you are suffering from Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) but not an addiction. For people who take selfies and are suffering from BDD, taking a perfect picture is the main concern. They can spend hours trying to click that perfect snap where no flaws or problems are reflected. Though they know about their defects, they don't want the world to see them. ...

Hitler Furniture Auction Ban Urged by French Jewish Group

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The cancellation of an auction of Adolf Hitler and Nazi air force chief Hermann Goering's personal effects due in Paris next month was called by France's main Jewish body on Sunday. The umbrella organisation CRIF said the sale, planned for April 26, was "a form of moral indecency" and disrespectful to "the victims of Nazi barbarism". It asked the culture ministry to block the auction. The objects and documents to be put under the hammer were ...

Pope Starts the Easter Week With Palm Sunday Mass

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The Easter Week observances was kicked off by Pope Francis, by celebrating Palm Sunday mass with over 100,000 pilgrims in a sun-drenched St Peter's Square on Sunday. Dressed in Palm Sunday red, the head of the Roman Catholic Church led a traditional procession of palms along with scores of cardinals, bishops and priests. For the observance recalling Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem shortly before his crucifixion and resurrection, worshipers carry ...

IVF Patient In Italy Pregnant With Wrong Embryos: Report

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Twin embryos of a couple were reported to be mixed up with a pregnant woman, who underwent fertility treatment at a clinic in Rome, press said Sunday. Italy's health ministry said it was launching an investigation into the mix-up, which was only discovered when the woman was three months pregnant. The mistake happened on December 4, when four different couples were receiving treatment at a specialist fertility unit at the Sandro Pertini Hospital in ...

Quality of Health-Related Info on Internet Search Varies: Study

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Quality of information related to diagnosis and treatment of physical disease or injuries found on web searches could be hazardous to health, shown in a new study. University of Florida researchers said that, web searches related to physical disease or injuries tend to yield higher-quality information than online searches for preventive health and social health information, and when it comes to health information, search results may vary. Study co-author ...

US Gets to Grips With Feral Cats

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Feral cats are not so common in the US, but times are changing. It's Friday night in Eckington, a quiet residential corner of Washington, and the back alley is crawling with feral cats -- rich pickings for seasoned cat-trapper Marty King. "Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty," said King after setting four metal traps baited with flaked shrimp and fish cat food and lined with fresh newspapers. "If they're hungry and they haven't seen traps before, ...

Cost of Keeping Global Warming in Check is Modest, Claims UN Panel

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The cost of fighting global warming is "relatively modest", IPCC chairperson Rajendra Pachauri has said. However, this is only if the world acts quickly to reverse buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The panel said that without additional measures to cut emissions, temperatures globally will go up by about 3 degree Celsius to 4 degree Celsius by 2100 compared to current levels, News24.com reported. According to the IPCC, the shift will ...

NATO HQ in the Grip of Shades of the Cold War

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The return to propaganda methods and suspicions last seen during the Cold War has turned the clock back by three decades for NATO and Russia. "NATO and Moscow have suddenly remembered they used to be the world's best worst enemies," said a Brussels-based officer at NATO's headquarters, speaking on condition of anonymity. "And our older colleagues are using the same reflexes they abandoned years ago," he added. In NATO offices, maps of Ukraine ...

Luxury Furniture Exhausts Budget of Japan Stem Cell Body

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A publicly-funded research institute in Japan has spent tens of thousands of dollars on designer Italian furniture simply to use up its budget. The respected Riken Institute, headed by Nobel chemistry laureate Ryoji Noyori, spent almost 10 million yen ( (Dollar) 100,000) on two shopping sprees in March 2011 at Cassina Ixc., a maker and importer of top-range furniture, publicly-released information shows. In its latest edition, Shukan Bunshun magazine cites a ...

Chemotherapy Before or After Surgery for High-risk Bladder Cancer may Improve Survival

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Chemotherapy before or after surgery is not commonly used as a clinical practice, which is contrary to the treatment guidelines for high risk bladder cancer. The findings are published early online in iCancer/i, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Clinical trials have shown that survival is improved in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are given chemotherapy before surgery. There is less evidence about whether chemotherapy after ...

Genetic Cause of Numerous Diseases Comes Closer to Reality

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In order to narrow down the genetic cause of numerous diseases, the researchers have taken first steps towards creating a roadmap as an assistance to scientists. According to Fred Wright, North Carolina State University professor of statistics and biological sciences, director of NC State's Bioinformatics Center and co-first author of the study, said everyone has the same set of genes. It's difficult to determine which genes are heritable, or controlled by your ...

Amenities of Most Popular Hotel Revealed

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Amenities of the most popular hotel does not include luxury items like a Jacuzzi but includes food items as revealed in a new survey. According to Hotels.com's survey, the world's favorite hotel amenity isn the complimentary breakfast, followed by hotel restaurant and internet/free Wi-Fi, Fox News reported. The survey was conducted on 1,000 travelers around the world to find out which hotel amenities people care about most. The top 10 hotel ...

Hometown Celebrates Sainthood for 'Good Pope John'

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Pope John XXIII holds a special place in the heart of many Italians and nowhere more so than in his homeland of Bergamo. But locals say the man nicknamed "Good Pope John" for his down-to-earth personality -- similar to that of Pope Francis -- should be remembered as a driving force behind reforms in Catholicism still relevant today. Born in Sotto il Monte in the foothills of the Alps in 1881, Angelo Roncalli was elected pope in 1958 and reigned as John ...

Military in Popularity Push in Japan

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An online popularity contests, a much-touted soprano vocalist and dating events are apparently part of a public relations campaign as Japan is gradually learning to love its military. The armed forces are also visible in youth culture, with young teens tuning in to "Girl und Panzer" a cartoon about schoolgirls who do battle in tanks. Japan's most popular Twitter hashtag in 2013 was #KanColle, a reference to an online game in which anthropomorphised warships compete ...

Father of 99 Children: The 'Sperminator'

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Europe's most prolific sperm donor who has fathered almost 99 children is a man from Dutch town of Maastricht who is working as a tour guide on weekdays. Ed Houben said that he has fathered 99 children in Australia, Israel, Canada, Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, England but added that there are other possible - women whom he had sex with but never heard from again, the New York Post reported. The 44-year-old bachelor said that ...

Study reveals that American women prefer pooches to motherhood

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American women are preferring dogs over motherhood, finds a new study. The business-news site Quartz reveals that, a report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a big drop in the number of babies born to women ages 15 to 29, which corresponds with a huge increase in the number of tiny dogs owned by young women, the New York Post reported. The data suggests that, over the past seven years, the number of live births per 1,000 women between ...

Post National Immunization Program, Reduction in HPV in Young Women in England

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Reduction was observed in the most common cervical cancer in women under 35 in England where around 2000 to 2500 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. A study conducted by Public Health England and presented today at the Society for General Microbiology's Annual Conference shows a reduction in these two HR HPV types - which are included in the HPV vaccines used - in sexually active young women in England. Between 2010 and 2012, over 4000 samples were ...

New Strategy for Kidney Regeneration Suggested by Gene Linked to Pediatric Kidney Cancer

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A gene called Lin28 is found to be linked to nearly one-third of cases of Wilms tumor, a pediatric cancer according to research from Boston Children's Hospital. Mice engineered to express Lin28 in their kidneys developed Wilms tumor, which regressed when Lin28 was withdrawn, indicating that strategies aimed at blocking or deactivating the gene hold therapeutic promise for children with Wilms. Studies in the mouse model further suggest that controlled expression of Lin28 can ...

Treatment for Immune Suppression in Liver Disease Uncovered by Mechanism

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The susceptibility of liver disease patients to life threatening infections has been uncovered through a mechanism by a team of medical scientists who have also suggested a possible treatment. The mechanism which underlies the susceptibility of liver disease patients to life-threatening infection has been uncovered by Wellcome Trust-funded medical scientists, who have also suggested a possible treatment to reverse immune suppression in these patients. Liver disease, ...

Lettuce to Astronauts With NASA's Space Vegetable Project

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Vegetable Production System will be launched by NASA aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule on Monday. The plant growth chamber is going to grow lettuce inside prototype flight pillows, which will help the plants withstand zero gravity, the Verge reported. According to NASA, red, blue, and green LEDs will help sustain the vegetables, asserting that the plant chamber can grow to 11.5 inches wide and 14.5 inches deep. the project has now raised hopes ...

Three Tobacco Makers Facing Lawsuit from South Korea State Insurer

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South Korea's state health insurer has filed a lawsuit against three domestic and foreign tobacco makers, it was confirmed on Monday. The suit seeks damages of 53.7 billion won ( (Dollar) 51.6 million) for payouts over smoking-related illnesses. The National Health Insurance Service said the suit, filed in Seoul's district court, named Phillip Morris, British American Tobacco (BAT) and South Korea's largest tobacco firm KT and G. "Smoking is a serious issue affecting ...

Injury Risk Significantly Greater in Young People With Epilepsy

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A new study has found that children and young adults with epilepsy are more likely to suffer broken bones, burns and poisonings compared to those without the disease. The study, led by academics at The University of Nottingham and funded by the National Institute for Health Research, shows that young people with the condition are at significantly greater risk of being poisoned by medication, leading the authors to call for further research into whether these poisonings ...

Study: Empowerment Program Greatly Decreases Incidence of Rape

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A large new study has found that a low-cost empowerment program for adolescent girls in Kenyan slums sharply curtails rape and sexual harassment of these girls. The findings, by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and the nongovernmental organization Ujamaa-Africa/No Means No Worldwide, validated the program's effectiveness in combating an appallingly common hazard among girls living in the slums ...

Accuracy of Diagnosis Improved by New Clinical Definition for Epilepsy

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A new definition for epilepsy that refines the scope of patients diagnosed with this brain disease has been created by an expert task force. The study published in iEpilepsia/i, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), provides a greater level of detail to diagnose epilepsy by including individuals with two unprovoked seizures, and those with one unprovoked seizure and other factors that increase risk of seizure ...

Mile-High Fantasies of Couples can Now be Fulfilled on Board Love Cloud

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Flights in a private plane offered to couples by Love Cloud, a Las Vegas-based company, so that they can fulfill their mile-high fantasies. The flight leaves from a private hanger in Las Vegas and returns clients to the same place, Fox News reported. For 800 dollars you get 40 minutes on the flight, but you have the option of paying for more time. The captain will fly over the Las Vegas strip or take you over scenic spots like the Hoover ...

Weight Gain During Pregnancy Influences Risk of Having an Overweight Child

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New research suggests that gaining both too much or too little weight during pregnancy appears to increase the risk of having an overweight or obese child. The Kaiser Permanente study is published in the iAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology/i. In one of the largest studies to examine current Institute of Medicine recommendations regarding pregnancy weight gain in relation to childhood obesity, researchers reviewed the electronic health records of 4,145 ...

Increased Television Viewing Linked to Shorter Sleep Duration in Young Children

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A study has found a small but consistent association between increased television viewing and shorter sleep duration in children. The study followed more than 1,800 children from ages 6 months to nearly 8 years. The presence of a television in the room where a child sleeps also was associated with less sleep, particularly in minority children. Investigators from MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) report their results ...

Swiss Scientists Perform Nose Reconstruction Surgery Using Lab-Grown Cartilage

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Researchers at University of Basel in Switzerland claimed to have performed the first-ever successful nose reconstruction surgery by making use of cartilage grown in the laboratory. The researchers revealed that they collected cartilage cells extracted from the patient's nasal septum and grew them in the laboratory into a collagen membrane which was then shaped according the defect and implanted into the patients. Around five patients, all aged between 76 ...

Now, You can Actually Check Out Your Baby Before Conception

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Now couples can get a peek of how their unborn child would look and get to know the potential health and physical characteristics of the baby even before it is conceived thanks to a new technology developed by a Princeton University researcher. Known as Matchright, the technology virtually mixes the DNA of the couples and provides them with a glimpse of the physical traits of the unborn child along with information regarding any potential genetic diseases that the ...

Fishes from Acidic Ocean Waters Less Skilled at Smelling Predators

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Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves into the water and lowers the pH of the water, causing fishes from the ocean waters less likely to smell predators. Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is absorbed into ocean waters, where it dissolves and lowers the pH of the water. Acidic waters affect fish behavior by disrupting a specific receptor in the nervous system, called GABAA, which is present in most marine organisms with a nervous system. When GABAA ...

Trauma may be Hereditary?

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The behavioral disorders which are passed down from one generation to the next can be induced by traumatic experiences, and this phenomenon has long been known in psychology. It is only recently that scientists have begun to understand thaviourale physiological processes underlying hereditary trauma. "There are diseases such as bipolar disorder, that run in families but can't be traced back to a particular gene", explains Isabelle Mansuy, professor at ETH Zurich and the University ...

Stem Cell Therapies Could be Advanced by a Silly Putty Ingredient

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Stem cell therapies could be advanced by the sponginess of the environment where human embryonic stem cells grow as studied by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan. The researchers coaxed human embryonic stem cells to turn into working spinal cord cells more efficiently by growing the cells on a soft, utrafine carpet made of a key ingredient in Silly Putty. Their study is published online at iNature Materials/i on April 13. This research ...

Research in Alzheimer's Disease To be Revolutionized With a New Mouse Model

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A tremendous social and economic burden on modern society could be imposed by Alzheimer's disease, the primary cause of dementia in the elderly. In Japan, the burden of the disease in 2050 is estimated to be a half a trillion US dollars, a figure equivalent to the government's annual revenues. Unfortunately, it has proven very difficult to develop drugs capable of ameliorating the disease. After a tremendous burst of progress in the 1990s, the pace of discoveries ...

To Sharpen Microscope Images, New Technique Takes Cues from Astronomy and Ophthalmology

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The most sophisticated light microscopes can befuddled with the complexity of biology. New imaging technology developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus rapidly corrects for these distortions and sharpens high-resolution images over large volumes of tissue. The approach, a form of adaptive optics, works in tissues that do not scatter light, making it well suited to imaging the transparent bodies of zebrafish and the roundworm ...

Ice Cream That Could Serve as a Replacement for Viagra Developed

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The Arousal, the new ice cream flavour developed by a British ice cream maker includes 25 mg of Viagra per scoop. Charlie Harry Francis, who created the concoction, wrote on his blog 'Lick Me, I'm Delicious' that that champagne is also a key ingredient in the flavor, Fox News reported. Francis told Latin Times that champagne-flavored/Viagra ice cream was a custom order by an A-list celeb, and he spent a few days developing the recipe. He ...

Women can Modulate Voice to Make It Sexier, Men Cannot: Study

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A new study conducted by scientists finds men can't make their voices sound more appealing in comparison to women, who can modify their pitch to dial up the charm. For the study, 40 participants (20 men, 20 women) provided intentionally manipulated voice samples for the desired traits, plus a normal speech sample. Each sample consisted of participants counting from one to 10. Another 40 people assessed the degree to which each sample effectively projected the ...

New Book Unfolds Untold Assassination Attempts on US Presidents

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A new book "Hunting the President: Threats, Plots, and Assassination Attempts - from FDR to Obama" (Regnery) by Mel Ayton shows that assassination attempts and threats are far more common that it is know. According to New York Post, some assassination attempts we either never learned about, or which were written off by the media as minor, came shockingly close to achieving their goals, some even before the president in question could take office. The ...

Messed-up Heart Shape Spotted on Mars

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Scientists have spotted a messed-up heart shape on the Tharsis Bulge on Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the heart-shape on the south of the huge shield volcano Ascraeus Mons which measures approximately 200 meters across, Discovery News reported. Planetary scientist Ramy El-Maarry said that the feature, which is multi-layered and rises above the surrounding landscape, could ...

Iron Supplements Enhances Women's Exercise Performance: Study

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Women who take iron supplements, experience a marked improvement in their exercise performance, shows a new study. The new study by the University of Melbourne found that iron supplementation improved women's exercise performance, in terms of both the highest level they could achieve at 100% exertion and their exercise efficiency at a submaximal exertion. Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha from the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, who is the lead ...

Jesus More Popular Than Mao, Communism on Twitter in China

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In China, Jesus and Christianity are more popular than Chairman Mao and Communism. Researchers at Tea Leaf Nation, an online magazine that studies media trends in China, found that Christian terms are quite popular on China's Twitter-like social media platform Weibo. According to Fox News, the survey discovered the word 'Bible' produces more than 17 million results. However, 'Quotations of Chairman Mao'-a text known in the West as 'The Little ...

Forty-Four Pc of Twitteratis Have Never Tweeted

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A new survey has found that Twitter has a whopping 974 million registered accounts however 44 percent of these have never tweeted even once. Twitter analytics company Twopcharts found that the micro-blogging site has nearly 974 million accounts, meaning roughly 429 million accounts have never tweeted. According to PC World, some of the account users just use them to read tweets and others may have created an account, only to forget that it exists. Twopcharts' ...