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• Huge study finds brain networks connected to teen drug abuse
• Breastfeeding is associated with a healthy infant gut
• Orangutans harbor ancient primate Alu
• Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression
• Albinism: Another excuse to collect the rare and exotic?
• Climate Change Makes the Napa Wine Industry Thrive
• Patient and Family sessions at the Fourth BHD Symposium
• AML’s fatal flaw

Huge study finds brain networks connected to teen drug abuse Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:04 PM PDT Why do some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs—while others don’t? In the largest imaging study of the human [...]

Breastfeeding is associated with a healthy infant gut Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:01 PM PDT Early colonization of the gut by microbes in infants is critical for development of their intestinal tract and in immune [...]

Orangutans harbor ancient primate Alu Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:59 PM PDT Alu elements infiltrated the ancestral primate genome about 65 million years ago. Once gained an Alu element is rarely lost [...]

Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:56 PM PDT The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person [...]

Albinism: Another excuse to collect the rare and exotic? Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:51 AM PDT Across the entire animal kingdom there are some fascinating, sometimes even unbelievable characteristics. The adaptations that have made it through [...]

Climate Change Makes the Napa Wine Industry Thrive Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:51 AM PDT If I had to sum up living in Northern California in only a couple words, it would be sun, sun, [...]

Patient and Family sessions at the Fourth BHD Symposium Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:50 AM PDT Around 30 patients and family members participated in the Fourth BHD Symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio last month. Such a record [...]

AML’s fatal flaw Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:49 AM PDT Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a frightening cancer. AML develops in bone marrow, growing in cells that would normally mature [...]

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• New graphene-based material could revolutionize electronics industry
• Can Nature’s Beauty Lift Citizens From Poverty?
• Adding wrinkles and folds boosts solar efficiency by 47%
• Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief: UBC study
• Genes shed light on spread of agriculture in Stone Age
• Sea change in salinity heralds shift in rainfall
• New form of intellectual disability discovered
• Poverty Undercuts Otherwise Major Gains in HIV Treatment
• Built-in GPS in birds in tune with Earth’s magnetic field
• Polluting China for the sake of economic growth
• Combating global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity
• Scorpion sons suffers from dad’s antibiotics
• Doubling the information from the double helix
• ‘Warming hole’ delayed climate change over eastern United States
• Boron Nanotubes Show Potential in Cancer Treatment

New graphene-based material could revolutionize electronics industry Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:04 PM PDT The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has been invented by a team from the University [...]

Can Nature’s Beauty Lift Citizens From Poverty? Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:08 AM PDT Using nature’s beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China’s valued panda preserves, but it isn’t an automatic [...]

Adding wrinkles and folds boosts solar efficiency by 47% Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT Taking their cue from the humble leaf, researchers have used microscopic folds on the surface of photovoltaic material to significantly [...]

Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief: UBC study Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. The [...]

Genes shed light on spread of agriculture in Stone Age Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT One of the most debated developments in human history is the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. This week's edition [...]

Sea change in salinity heralds shift in rainfall Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:36 AM PDT A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world’s oceans, signaling shifts and acceleration in the global rainfall [...]

New form of intellectual disability discovered Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:26 AM PDT Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form [...]

Poverty Undercuts Otherwise Major Gains in HIV Treatment Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:17 AM PDT In a groundbreaking study published last year, scientists reported that effective treatment with HIV medications not only restores health and [...]

Built-in GPS in birds in tune with Earth’s magnetic field Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:15 AM PDT Birds do not need the latest in navigational technology when it comes to flying south for the winter; they come [...]

Polluting China for the sake of economic growth Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:05 AM PDT China’s economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future with emissions and efficiency far [...]

Combating global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:59 AM PDT In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote [...]

Scorpion sons suffers from dad’s antibiotics Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:58 AM PDT In a paper published today in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report [...]

Doubling the information from the double helix Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT Our genes control many aspects of who we are — from the colour of our hair to our vulnerability to [...]

‘Warming hole’ delayed climate change over eastern United States Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:56 AM PDT Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late [...]

Boron Nanotubes Show Potential in Cancer Treatment Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:53 AM PDT A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of [...]

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